6/14/2012 to 6/16/2012            
                 North Carolina A+T University, Greensboro, NC

20 Boys and 27 girls

Boys Pole Vault Championship
Saturday 6/16/2012 – 11:00 AM
  1   2988 Allison, Jared                12 Seven Valleys, P           
  2   1126 Anderson, Patrick             12 Kane, PA                   
  3   2888 Barber, Shawnacy              12 Kingwood, TX               
  4   1111 Duvio, Dylan                  13 Kenner, LA                 
  5   2602 Eckenroth, Austin             12 Flowery Branch,            
  6   1058 Foxworth, Connor              12 Mobile, AL                 
  7   1079 Gallagher, Greg               12 Elmsford, NY               
  8   1710 Ginger, Tyler                 13 Danvers, IL                
  9   1087 Hunter, Craig                 13 Robbinsville, NJ           
10    636 Jensen, Michael               13 Bear, DE                   
11   2622 Johnston, Kyle                12 Granger, IN                
12   2869 Linta, Jeffrey                12 Little River, SC           
13   1839 McDaniel, Joshua              12 Lakeland, FL               
14   1409 Owens, Aaron                  13 Middleburg Heigh           
15   2633 Robichaux, Cameron            13 Mandeville, LA              
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The 2nd Annual All Pole Vault-All the Time Invitational at Emory University, Atlanta, GA was again a great Pole Vault meet! Almost all the meet records were broken and we had some, I beleive, National leading marks, as well.

HIGHLIGHTS:

The Middle School meets were exciting. Especially the Girls meet. Carson Dingler cleared a GA State best of 10-10. This may be a Nation leading mark. The 7th Grader, upped her PR twice during the meet. She was backed up by PV-ATL’s Becky Arbiv with a 9-7 PR jump. Becky is also just in 7th Grade. State Runner-up Mitt Conerly cleared 11-5 to set a new meet record to win the Boys MS meet.
The High School meets lived up to the high expectations, even though the Boys fought a head wind all day. In the “B” level meets Ryan Whetton (PV-ATL) surprised in the Boys division with a 12-1 PR to win it. PV-ATL’s Adrienne Lee took the “B” Girls on the count back with a 9-5 jump.
The “A” High School meets were competive. In the Girls meet, defending Champ Reed Hancock won at 11-5. Her World Class teamate Holly Ebbetts mached that, but was out-jumped on the count-back. The real fire-works were in the Boys Meet. Defending Champ Austin Eckenroth took gold with a 15-10, meet record clearance. Three more boys were over 15-0: Tray Oates & James Wenk at 15-4 and Tyler Craig of GA PV Club at 15-1.
Over-all it was a great meet! Thanks to all those coaches, athletes and parents that helped out. Thanks to Coach Matt Barry and Coach Robbie Roberts, who ran the pits. Thanks to all the PV-ATL members who worked the standards and cross-bars. Thanks to SMART Meet’s George Stephens for the great meet management! Oh… and to the Coach who ran the paperwork at Pit 1. I for got your name, but not what a great job you did!  more

Senior Dereck Fleury of the Marysville High School boys track and field team won’t forget the influence coach Jim Gannon had on his prep career.Fleury represented the Monarchs in the Division I regional meet May 23 and 25 at Pickerington North, finishing sixth in the shot put in 50 feet, 4 1/4 inches as the top four finishers in each regional event advanced to the state meet June 1 and 2 at Ohio State.The regional was the final meet for Gannon, who recently announced his retirement from teaching and coaching. Gannon motivated several pole vaulters. Senior Joel Dye set a program record this season by clearing 13-1 1/4in the pole vault in a meet against North Union on March 27. The previous mark of 13-0 was set by Ryan Wasko in 2001. 

“I had great kids and great people to work with,” Gannon said. “Administration, assistant coaches all through the years have been very supportive. That makes things go smoothly.

“I’m going to spend more time with my wife (Maureen) and family. This takes a lot of time away from them.”   more