SAN DIEGO — Lexi Evans pondered the question: How did being able to pole vault during the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020 affect you? “To a degree, I think it saved my sanity,” said the Scripps Ranch senior. “It was a rough time doing nothing. Being with others with the same…
Justin Rogers, Hershey, clears 16’ 9” before breaking his own state pole vault recored later clearing 17’ 2’, at the 2022 Mid Penn Track & Field Championships at Chambersburg Area High School in Chambersburg, Pa., May. 14, 2022. Justin Rogers, Hershey, sets a new state recored in the pole vault,…
Kerry Seekamp remembers it well. Just a scrappy 12-year-old at Destin Middle School, every Sunday she’d get to share the pole vaulting pit alongside her idols, Niceville’s Maddy Kish and Kobe Babin. They were larger than life. They could clear monstrous heights. They, more than anything, represented all that Seekamp wanted for…
Hamilton College’s Andrea Shipton ’22 finished fourth in the women’s pole vault in Nazareth College’s 2022 ROC City Final Qualifier at Golden Flyer Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Shipton cleared 3.05 meters (10 feet, 0 inches) on the first try, 3.20 meters (10 feet, 6 inches) on her second attempt at…
While the girls had the better team finish, senior Ben Kirbo had Stephenville’s only gold medal at the state track meet held last week in Austin. The senior cleared 15 feet and won the title when Pleasanton’s Preston Pilgrim and Argyle’s Mitchell Thompson missed at 15-3. Both Pilgrim and Thompson…
Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall is favouring a bend but do not break approach to conquering his mental demons as he prepares to defend his Commonwealth Games gold medal. The WAIS scholarship holder is hoping to join Steve Hooker, Alana Boyd and Trevor Bickle as the only Australians to retain their…
HANOI — Ernest John Obiena didn’t deny everyone of a chance to glimpse his world class talent, winning the 31st Southeast Asian men’s pole vault gold in record fashion on Saturday. Amid the hazy sky in the drizzly afternoon at My Dinh Stadium, Obiena waited for all his competitors to…
DAVIS, Calif. – CSU Bakersfield men and women’s track and field showed up and made their presence known Friday at the Woody Wilson Track and Toomy Field in Davis. Miranda Miller highlighted the first day of the Big West Championships soaring to a conference title in pole vault. The Roadrunners…
Melana Schumaker’s expectations are as lofty as her pole vaults. Twelve feet high and higher. Currently, Litwinovich serves as the boys’ and girls’ track coach at South Fayette. Schumaker’s father, Mike, moves the bar up for Schumaker as she soars higher while Tim Sullivan tweaks her technique at the Steel…
— The CIF Southern Section Track and Field Prelims took place Saturday, May 7, at four separate locations across Southern California, depending on the Division. Trabuco Hills High School was the setting for Division 1, Division 2 took place at Ventura High School, Division 3 held their meet at Estancia…