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Beach Pole Vaulting into the ocean
Pole Vaulting at the beach in Point Boro!!!!!! 14′ 165 skypole
Arizona Pole Vault Academy Meet
7/30/2012 practice meet 1 and 2
3:30pm warmup, 4:30pm start
sunny 100 degrees
1. Chandler Fraley 11-6
2. Savannah Whitehead 11-6 (PR)
3. Jill Starkey 11-0 (4L PR)
4. Maleah McMullin 11-0
5. Haley Bowser 10-6
6. Cami Bartlett 10-6
7. Kaija Bramwell 10-0
8. Abbie Sharkey 10-0 (short run)
9. Kaitlyn Martin 9-6 (short run)
10. Amber Pasternak 9-0 (short run)
11. Callie Kelsph 9-0 (short run)
12. Sami C 9-0
13. Kristianna Warth 8-6 (4L PR)
14. Kalani Moore 6-6
1. Garrett Starkey 15-0 (4L)
2. Pau Tonneson 14-6 (short run PR)
3. Nate Hiett 14-0 (short run)
4. Cody Smith 13-0 (short run)
5. Jack Miller 12-6 (short run)
6. Colin Lowney 11-6
7. CJW 10-6 (short run PR)
AAU Junior Olympic Entries
M Young PV 55 entered
Austin Eckenroth 03-LanierLightn 4.75 D
James Wenk 03-Unattached James Wenk 4.75 D
Jeffrey Linta 03-Unattached Jeffrey Linta 4.75 D
Jonathan Walsh 07-MundeleinMam 4.73 D
Connor Curley 07-WabashValley 4.73 D
Connor Foxworth 06-Hvc-Alabama 4.72 D
Deion Mock 13-Unattached Deion Mock 4.71 D
Grant Krieger 08-Unattached Grant Krieger 4.70 D
Tyler Marsengill 03-KmrAthletics 4.60 D
Bradley Johnson 03-Unattached Bradley Johnson 4.60 D
Tray Oates 03-Unattached Tray Oates 4.60 D
Tyler Craig 03-Unattached Tyler Craig 4.60 D Continue reading
USATF JO Men Entries
M Young PV 55 entered
Austin Eckenroth 03-LanierLightn 4.75 D
James Wenk 03-Unattached James Wenk 4.75 D
Jeffrey Linta 03-Unattached Jeffrey Linta 4.75 D
Jonathan Walsh 07-MundeleinMam 4.73 D
Connor Curley 07-WabashValley 4.73 D
Connor Foxworth 06-Hvc-Alabama 4.72 D
Deion Mock 13-Unattached Deion Mock 4.71 D
Grant Krieger 08-Unattached Grant Krieger 4.70 D
Tyler Marsengill 03-KmrAthletics 4.60 D
Bradley Johnson 03-Unattached Bradley Johnson 4.60 D
Tray Oates 03-Unattached Tray Oates 4.60 D
Tyler Craig 03-Unattached Tyler Craig 4.60 D Continue reading
USATF JO Women’s Vault Entries
F Young PV 35 entered
| name | team | mark | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakan Taylor | 12-Unattached Lakan Taylor | 3.85 | D |
| Jacilyn Briggs | 01-PatriotPoleV | 3.81 | D |
| Lexie Schachne | 01-Unattached Lexie Schachne | 3.66 | D |
| Felicia Majors | 16-GlenardenTC | 3.65 | D |
| Maddesen Weekes | 01-Unattached Maddesen Weekes | 3.49 | D |
| HadleyReed Hancock | 03-Unattached HadleyReed Hanco | 3.45 | D |
| Sydney Rodkey | 03-VesselFitTC | 3.45 | D |
| Holly Ebbets | 03-WorldClassSp | 3.45 | D |
| Morgan Johnson | 12-TexasExpress | 3.40 | D |
| Nicole Jaffke | 07-MundeleinMam | 3.36 | D |
| Grace Weisbecker | 01-Unattached Grace Weisbecker | 3.34 | D Continue reading |
USATF JO Decathlon Entries
M Intermediate DEC 21 entered
| name | team | mark | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Lint | 05-TheFlyingJsT | 6322 | D |
| Liam Henshaw | 13-WillametteSt | 6244 | D |
| Austin Walashek | 10-ArizonaPumaT | 5559 | D |
| Harrison Williams | 06-Unattached Harrison William | 5550 | D |
| Eric Fox | 05-Unattached Eric Fox | 5450 | D |
| Ayron Monroe | 16-MarlboroBoys | 5155 | D |
| Parker Kennedy | 13-WillametteSt | 5111 | D |
| AmirAli Patterson | 15-TrebuchetFie | 5075 | D |
| Matthew Fischetti | 01-NitehawksSpo | 5014 | D |
| Michael Taylor | 04-Unattached Michael Taylor | 4870 | D |
| Kyle Beaver | 14-NapaTC | 4508 | D |
| Quinlin Preston | 09-Unattached Quinlin Preston | 4337 | D |
| Paris Vaughan | 16-TeamNetworki | 4218 | D Continue reading |
US Decathletes ready for London
With the London Olympics only a few weeks away, the world’s best decathletes are preparing themselves for the biggest competition in the world. To get used to the time and weather conditions in Europe, World Record holder Ashton Eaton and double World Champion Trey Hardee are currently training in Marburg, Germany, to get ready for the Games. This Friday saw both US athletes compete against some of Germany’s best decathletes in a training meeting at Mörfelden, Germany. Amongst the German decathletes were Rico Freimuth and Jan-Felix Knobel, who will be, as well as European Champion Pascal Behrenbruch, competing in London. The competition only involved the first three events of the decathlon’s second day: 110m hurdles, discus throw and pole vault. Due to constantly changing weather conditions not all athletes competed in all events to avoid taking any unnecessary risks. more
Isinbayeva finds her passion again
Moscow – Russia’s pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva is confident of soaring to new heights at the Olympics after suffering a series of setbacks in the last three seasons.Isinbayeva heads to London boosted by gold in the 2012 World Indoor Championships and happy she has regained her fighting spirit after the 2009-2011 seasons were blighted by the rare but bitter taste of defeat.Reunited with her childhood coach Yevgeny Trofimov – a man who she affectionately calls her second father – Isinbayeva believes she has recovered the form that made her unbeatable up to 2008.“I can say that I’ve regained that joyful feeling being in flight over the bar,” the double Olympic champion said.“Now I just love everything that I’m doing and I really appreciate every minute which I spend in training and competition.”Accustomed to being the unchallenged queen of her event, Isinbayeva failed to record a height in a tear-stained 2009 World Championships in Berlin, came fourth in the 2010 world indoors and just sixth in the 2011 Worlds in Daegu, South Korea.But Isinbayeva said that she was not afraid of the competition at the Olympics, saying if she comes into the Games in top form nobody can stop her.“If I manage to keep my form and avoid injuries there’ll be no rival for me in London except myself,” she said.The 30-year-old Volgograd-born pole vaulter added that the recent winter athletics season confirmed that she and coach Trofimov have chosen the right way to prepare for the Olympics. more
Local heading to Junior Olympics
SEGUIN, Texas — Chad Wieland isn’t the ideal pole vaulter.He has no background in gymnastics and he seems anything but intense, with a happy-go-lucky grin and shaggy blond hair.At 14, he’s not particularly tall for his age and hasn’t yet developed an athlete’s muscular physique.“He’s not very big or tall, he’s still kinda thin and gangly,” Kris Allison, head coach at Lone Star Pole Vault, said with a chuckle. “He looks like he’d be a long-distance runner.”But Chad had plans that took him far above the track. Because he fell in love with pole vaulting at first leap.“In seventh-grade in track, the coach asked us to try out multiple track and field events,” he said. “I tried the high jump and pole vault and I knew my first jump over that this is what I wanted to do.”About two years after Chad’s first jump, he’s headed to two national-level competitions. He’s landed in first place at a regional meet in Lubbock earlier this month and is now headed to the Junior Olympics through USA Track and Field on July 25 in Baltimore and then to the Amateur Athletic Union’s Junior Olympics competition in Humble next month. In both competitions, he’ll be facing off against other athletes in his age group.For Chad, flying above the ground is nothing but fun.“I just love being able to get my body upside down that high in the air,” he said, smiling widely. more
Pole vaulter Lavillenie aiming high for France
It has been 16 years since a Frenchman has won gold in a track and field event at the Olympic games, this year many are pinning their hopes on pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie to break the cycle of disappointment. The European champion may be the favourite but he is quick to guard against complacency.
Several vaulters hit PRs at Great Northern Street Vault
The Great Northern Street Vault took place on Saturday and featured pole vaulters, young and old, from around the state.One of the more impressive youngsters in the event, which was presented by Rocky Mountain Athletics, was 11-year old Kamden Hilborn.The 4-foot-11 seventh-grader at Montana City School cleared 7-feet-9, almost twice her height.“My old PR before today was 6-8, so I broke it by over a foot,” said Hilborn, whose older brother Gunnar is a vaulter for Helena High.After watching Hilborn’s performance, an interested observer, John Peterson, commented that, “This little kid’s gonna be good. She’s got great form, and she’s not even bending the pole yet.”Peterson knows a little of which he speaks, having won the AA championship for HHS in 1964 while setting a state record.Hilborn related how she learned the sport from the late Doug LeBrun and also Bill Hurford, the current Bengals coach and director of the Street Vault.She said she called LeBrun by his nickname, “Old Man,” and that he called her either “Sunshine or Buttercup.” more
She’s vaulting her way to the top
charlotte –Brooke McElwain says she lives a little bit on the edge.
She likes fast cars and started riding motocross dirt bikes when she was four years old.
So when she went out for the Mount Pleasant High track and field team as a freshman in 2011, McElwain ended up competing in the most edgy of events: pole vault.
McElwain now a rising junior is a two-time state qualifier. This summer, she’ll compete in the AAU Junior Olympics in Houston July 28-Aug. 4.
McElwain tried pole vaulting and almost gave up after two practices.
“I couldn’t do it,” she says. “I didn’t understand how to do it.”
Mount Pleasant coach Neil Pifer talked her into trying it the first time. And after McElwain gave up, he talked her into trying it again.
“It took me two weeks to a month to get the hang of it,” McElwain said.
Her best vault in her freshman season was 9 feet at the 3A Midwest regional meet. She placed second, qualifying her for the state meet where she finished 11th.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/07/10/3366434/shes-vaulting-her-way-to-the-top.html#storylink=cpy
