Daily Archives: October 10, 2011

2012 Arizona State Male Vaulters: Dylan Austin

Dylan Austin–

2010 Outdoor: Redshirted… competed unattached from ASU in four events… cleared a season-best height each time out, finishing with a best of 4.81m (15-09.25) to place third at the Sun Devil Open… cleared 4.76m (15-07.25) at the Sun Angel Track Classic to better his personal best clearance before doing so again at the Sun Devil Open… 2010 Indoor: Redshirted.

High School: A 2009 graduate of Moon Valley High School (Phoenix)… lettered four times in track & field… coached by former Sun Devil Brian Raper… won the 2009 state championship in the pole vault with a personal-best clearance of 15-06.00… also cleared the same height at the Gatorade Invitational in Phoenix in 2009… took state runner-up honors in the vault in 2008 and was fifth in 2007… member of the National Honors Society.

Personal: Majoring in industrial design… parents are Tom and Marcia Austin… has three siblings: brother Bill Porter and sisters Amanda Austin and Melinda Porter… born September 28, 1990, in Phoenix… hobbies include film, movies and drawing… full name is Dylan Thomas Austin.

Personal Bests • Pole Vault: 15-09.25

Fearless Bleasdale Leaps Into Contention Ahead of London 2012 Olympics

The scale of Bleasdale’s achievement in Mannheim can only be truly appreciated in the context of her relative inexperience; having only taken up the discipline in 2008, a jump of 4.70m propelled the teenager to joint fourth in the 2011 world rankings at the time. It still seemed a little premature, but British pole-vaulting finally had the makings of a superstar.

“From day one I just wanted to take it in my stride,” Bleasdale recalls of her earliest days in the sport. Having previously trained as a hurdler, a gymnast and making various efforts in a number of jumping and throwing events, Bleasdale eventually took up the opportunity to experience a pole-vaulting taster session in 2008, and the precocious talent is yet to look back.

“I’d been down in Blackburn doing the hurdles, but never found an event that I really wanted to be in,” Bleasdale explains. “They put taster sessions on for the pole-vault and I thought I’d give it a whirl and take it from there.

read more http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/articles/athletics/fearless-bleasdale-leaps-into-contention-ahead-of-london-2012-olympics-11500/