LAKEWOOD – As Sylvie Harrison sat in the pole vault pit with an injured ankle, she thought back to a gymnastics injury that ended her career. As just one of two athletes left competing for the ...

As you head east on Grant Road near Mountain Avenue on Monday and Thursday evenings, you’ll spot something soaring through the air in the backyard of a midtown home. While zipping down the road, it ...

It’s become a common sight over the years in Philomath — Dennis Phillips practicing his skills at the pole vault pit behind the Philomath High School track. “Pole vaulting makes me eat right, keeps my ...

Longtime track and field coach Ira Welborn, who earned the title of Jacksonville's Mr. Pole Vault during a career coaching hundreds of Northeast Florida pole vaulters over the span of decades, died ...

Columbus North’s Sierra Newell readies herself for an attmpt in the pole vault during Tuesday’s Columbus North High School. Sierra Newell comes from a family of distance runners, and for awhile, she ...

JOAQUIN, Texas (KTRE) - Joaquin’s Max Garvin, the 2A defending state champion in pole vault, is the national leader in pole vault this year in the United States. Garvin completed a vault of 17 feet, 8 ...

Addison Kleinke taking to the air is no new thing. The state’s best-ever girls pole vaulter, Kleinke has had a vice grip on the Oregon high school record since she was a freshman. It’s a mark that she ...

John Altendorf was a decent pole vaulter in high school, but not someone the masses heard much about. He was not a national name, having cleared 13 feet, 4.5 inches on his best days. But fast-forward ...

OMAHA — It’s been a long, dry spell for Shickley, but Bump Novacek was just the person to prime the pump. Novacek, a three-time state high school pole vault champion from Gothenburg, came to Shickley ...