As the rain began to fall Thursday evening in Carrollton, Cass senior Stephen Smith had one final chance to extend his high school career. The reigning Class 5A state champion in the pole vault needed to clear 15 feet in order to match what Carrollton’s Grant Briscoe had already accomplished.…
When Stephen Smith signed his national letter of intent last month to join the Kennesaw State track and field team as a pole vaulter, the Cass senior did so as a one-time state champion. When he steps foot on the Cobb County campus in the fall, Smith will do so…
VALDESE — One of the most successful high school athletes in Burke County has nailed down her college destination. Two-time state-champion pole vaulter Leanna Seagraves, a Draughn senior, will continue her track and field career at Montreat College in the North Carolina mountains. As a junior, Seagraves was girls field…
