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FROM THE EDITOR For some of you athletes the season is just getting started, and for others, the records are already falling. For the collegiate level athletes on the men’s side, the records and huge heights are being pressed to the limit already in the first month of the year. It’s February already and now is when the hard work and discipline that you found in club or college pole vaulting starts to kick in.
Pole Vault news, “Akron pole vaulter Matt Ludwig of Lake Catholic sets world mark ” Against Kent State during an indoor dual meet; the Lake Catholic graduate set a world standard in the pole vault with an effort of 19 feet, 1 1/2 inches. (2019). (https://www.newsherald.com/sports/akronpole-vaulter-matt-ludwigof-lake-catholic-sets-world/ article_6bc9dda8-211a-11e992ef-4f9a4f7b8305.html) “Twin sisters top pole vault” University of Arkansas
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seniors Lexi Jacobus and Tori Hoggard finished first and second in the pole vault Friday at the Razorback Invitational held in the Randal Tyson Center. (2019). (http:// www.wholehogsports.com/ news/2019/jan/25/twinsisters-top-pole-vault/)
On the cover, we have the highlight of our 2018 year, and that was the Texas EXPO Explosion in Belton, Texas. This was a fun event for anyone that Is serious about competition and the sport of pole vaulting. “On January 3, 2015, Shawn Barber cleared 5.87m here to break his own Canadian indoor record. 2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist Sam Kendricks has jumped here. And on December 29, 2018, Annie Johnigan cleared 4.56m here to post a qualifying mark for the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar.“ This is a great article by Stuart Kantor that I know you will enjoy reading.
Back at it again, Kreager Taber writes about the NCAA Division I Recap for January and a great insight into what we can expect for the rest of the year. “Fifteen male NCAA Division I pole vaulters cleared 18 feet, including Matthew Ludwig of Akron, Tray Oates of Samford, Adrian Valles of Cincinnati, Tim Ehrhardt of Michigan State, Jacob Wooten and Audie Wyatt of Texas A&M, Hussain Alhizam of Kansas, Scott Marshall of Grand Canyon, Chase Smith of Washington, Deakin Volz and Torben Laidig of Virginia Tech, Brandon Bray and Drew McMichael of Texas Tech, and Antonio Ruiz of Stephen F. Austin. Six of these athletes-Oates, Valles, Ehrhardt, Wyatt, Marshall, and Laidig- graduated at the end of last year, while the others have already begun to make this year’s field extraordinarily competitive.” That is a big group on men that are looking to change the way that the world thinks about American
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pole vaulting. Good job Kreager, this is a wealth of knowledge.
John Clark is a back! He had a blast, and he wants to share it with you. Not to mention John wants to share his experiences and let you know that you can start again any day that you so choose. Pick up a pole and get back to living again! “When I showed up at the annual endof-year Expo Explosion in Belton, Texas, carrying my two FiberSport poles in my new custom-made Wes Barnhart bag, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.” Once you have read, you will follow along with his journey into pole vaulting — great inspiration and true champion for getting up and getting going at any age. Next month we have a couple of young men that are crushing the pole vault in Texas. Stay tuned!
Doug Bouma Editor, Vaulter Magazine Vaulter Club Inc. editor@thevaultermag.com
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EXPO EXPLOSION X On January 3, 2015, Shawn Barber cleared 5.87m here to break his own Canadian indoor record.
2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist Sam Kendricks has jumped here.
And on December 29, 2018, Annie Johnigan cleared 4.56m here to post a qualifying mark for the 2019 IAAF World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Anicka Newell and Logan Cunningham (the only two vaulters to have attended every Expo), Jack Whitt, Demi Payne, and Katie Nageotte, amongst hundreds of others, have jumped here.
Here is Belton, Texas, a vibrant outpost situated on I-35 between two of Texas’ fastest growing cities, Waco and Austin. Belton’s Bell County Expo Center has transformed into pole vault mecca toward the end of every calendar year for the last decade. In fact, it’s now the second-largest pole vault-only competition in the United States, behind the famed UCS Spirit National Pole Vault Summit in Reno.
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The brainchild of retired police officer (35 years on the force), now Harker Heights juvenile detective and former vaulter Jack Chapman, the Expo Explosion just celebrated its tenth anniversary with the largest field of vaulters in its history. “We started out with 72 athletes that first year” Chapman said, but in order to grow, “we’ve brought in some great people that help us build this event – Dick’s Sporting Goods, VS Athletics, Altius Poles, Richey Pits, Vaulter Magazine – to name a few.”
in track and field. It’s a truly glorious display of athleticism that knows no age limit. As for ‘no age limit,’ Don Isett, at 79-years old and the
field’s elder statesman, only cleared 8’ 10”. Two years ago, Isett cleared 10’ 6” to claim the world record in the 75-79-age group. Isett first picked up the vault at age 66.
This year was the Expo’s first two-day event, adding a clinic portion featuring Rick and Jenn Suhr. With the distinct possibility of more growth, Chapman concedes he may have to “add more pits” and perhaps add a third day or start earlier on Friday.
When witnessing from the upper levels, the constant circus of over 350 vaulters launching themselves to clear the next bar as if shot from a five-headed continuous Cirque du Soleil fountain, is a spectacle unlike any other
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From clearances of 5’ 4” to 5.45m, middle and high school, open and masters athletes of all skill levels challenged themselves. Riley Floerke of Gregory-Portland, and a Baylor University signee, won the Elite Girl’s High School competition at 13’ 4”: “I had fun today. Today was about getting my feet back underneath me and having fun.” As for committing to Baylor, one word: “Teammates. (This includes the nation’s #1 returner, Flower Mound’s Mackenzie Hayward.) It just felt like home when I went there.” JT Herrscher of Greenhill, undecided collegiately, won the Elite Boy’s High School competition at 15’ 10”: “I connected well with
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the pole [early]” until 16-04; “[I] missed the bigger bar.” In addition to the couple hundred middle and high school vaulters, collegians and Olympic hopefuls dusted off the rust in this early-season showcase. Nastassja Campbell, a freshman at Stephen F. Austin, cleared 13’ 4” after matching 14’ 0” with Mackenzie Hayward at the 2018 Texas Relays: “Today I wanted to come in right before our indoor season starts and make a good bar. Hopefully I can qualify for Indoor Nationals and jump 14-06. That’s the goal.” While Indoor Nationals for a college freshman is a tremendous aspiration, several vaulters at Expo Explosion X have even bigger goals – the
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2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Anicka Newell, born in Texas, yet holding dual citizenship with Canada on her mom’s side, jumped to “dust the rust off” on the long journey toward “Worlds in October” and hopefully 2020 in Tokyo.
Jesse Johnson, from Argyle High School and Auburn University, “wasn’t looking for height today.” Rather, a week removed from strep throat, the goal was simple: “Today was about enjoying it and getting the reps, remembering what it’s like to pole vault. 2020 – The Olympics is definitely the goal; the Trials, however, is the realistic goal.” For Johnson, realism is a virtue taken to heart, as evidenced by the tattoo on her left forearm: “Remember who you are.” She embraces the Lion King philosophy: “You can’t let people and media and life sway you; don’t let anyone force you out of that.” Daylis Caballero Vega, 2012 Olympian representing Cuba, owns the second-highest vault ever by a Cuban woman: 4.51. She opened her 2019 campaign with a clearance of 4.36. The star of the show, as mentioned, was Annie Johnigan (née Rhodes) from Waco Midway High School and Baylor University. As for her decade at the Expo, “It has been an amazing thing to watch the transformation of the Expo from the first year until now! I competed in the first four Expo meets, then wasn’t able to compete for my four collegiate years, but have now competed the last two years professionally! I couldn’t be happier for my coach, Jack Chapman, for his success in creating and growing this huge vault event! He certainly deserves it, and I know the Expo will only continue to grow bigger and bigger each year! Personally, it’s my favorite meet to compete at throughout the entire track season!” On hitting the IAAF World Qualifying mark, she added, “I owe all of my credit in jumping
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4.56m first and foremost to my Savior, Jesus Christ! He’s the reason I vault, and He has given me this ability, so all the glory goes to Him! I also have to give credit to my coach, Jack Chapman. He believes in me, coaches me so well, and is definitely the main reason I am the vaulter I am today, jumping the heights I am jumping today. For this season, I have been training so hard. My speed training, weight training, vault training, and recovery have definitely been kicked up a notch this year, and I have held nothing back! I KNEW I had a big bar in me, but I know I have even BIGGER bars ahead! It does feel good to have the world standard height out of the way early in the season, though! I’m excited to get back to work and keep training for a great indoor season!” The first decade of the Expo Explosion is in the books, and as Jack Chapman reflects on parents and athletes and sponsors and volunteers who have built the reputation of this meet, he states his favorite memory is the “camaraderie and the spirit, the family atmosphere.” Here’s to the next decade.
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JOHN CLARK When I showed up at the annual end-of-year Expo Explosion in Belton, Texas, carrying my two FiberSport poles in my new custommade Wes Barnhart bag, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.
John Clark, Masters Vaulter
Last year, I went to Jack Chapman’s terrific showcase as a spectator, since I’d only been learning to vault for a couple months at that point, and wasn’t quite ready to make a fool of myself in front of a whole bunch of people. After 14 months of practice, and with two previous meets under my belt, this time I was ready. I’d been nursing a hellacious groin muscle injury for eight weeks, so hadn’t done any jumping practice to speak of, but everything seemed to finally be pain-free, and I was wearing a nice wraparound groin brace for support, just in case. Hopefully, I could get at least a couple of jumps in
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and clear a bar or two before something in my 61-year-old body gave way again. As I started warming up, taking some easy jogs up and down alongside the runway for pit no. 1, the groin felt fine, but suddenly I felt a tug and sharp little pain in my left quadriceps. What the (heck)??? You’ve got to be kidding me!
I said a few choice words and continued some easy runs up and down, some static stretching, a dozen or so walking and jogging pole drops, running and jumping up to slap a high bar, some more pole drops, leg swings, things like that. The leg seemed to loosen up, so I was cautiously optimistic as the meet got underway. I was over with the rest of the old folks – I mean, Masters vaulters – and the first bar was nice and low (56, 5-7 maybe?), so the first jump was good and smooth.
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No pain, thankfully.
We went up to 6-0, I think it was, and again, no problem. And so it went.
I got a little concerned at 6-10, when my pole knocked the bar off my first two attempts. I was feeling fine, and if I went out at this height, I was gonna be a little pissed. Brian Elmore told me I was pushing the pole away with my bottom hand, instead of my top hand, and I finally got that straightened out on my third try and left the bar up. To my surprise, by the time the bar went to 7-6, everyone but me failed to clear. I made it on my first try, and a handful of fellow competitors and friends – Jane Hemby, Cyndy SlovakBarton, Jorge Contreras, Jeff Brower, Kris Allison, Brian Elmore – swarmed around me, smiling, congratulating, telling me I’d won the pit. I won? You’re kidding!
With 7-6 being my PR from the Oklahoma Senior Games, I decided to go for the gusto and asked for 7-8. Made it on the first try. New PR.
How about 8 feet? Let’s do it ...
Unfortunately, I think I was running out of gas and adrenaline at that point, as I made some pretty weak jumps and failed to clear. But, man, I was a happy camper.
Next up was Reno, and my first trip to the famed National Pole Vault Summit.
I didn’t do much in the way of jumping those next two weeks, but got in some good training at the gym – lifting weights, doing a lot of stretching, some box jumps and step-ups, taking it easy on the ol’ legs. I did go out to Jack Chapman’s place the next Sunday to get in a little workout, but almost as soon as I started warming up, the damn quad muscle started complaining. I finished my warm-up and joined a bunch of youngsters on the runway, but decided to call it quits after my second two-stride jump hurt a little too much. Everything felt pretty good by the time I got to Reno. I felt a little out of place as I followed my friend Bubba Sparks around, meeting Olympians, national champions, and worldrecord holders from all over the world – we had breakfast
Friday morning at Rosie’s with the great Australian vaulter Simon Arkell and his son; and I ate fish and chips Saturday night with Masters world-record holder and fellow Texan, Don Isett – and part of me wondered what the hell I was even doing there. One of my childhood heroes, Bob Seagren, gave the keynote address during opening ceremonies, and I shook hands with the lovely Sandi Morris and met a bunch of other elite athletes. By mid-afternoon, it was time to head over to the arena to get ready for the Masters 5:30 competition.
It’s quite a sight, with hundreds of pole bags lined up behind the seats as you walk in, and 14 pits and runways stretched across the Events Center floor down below. As the youngsters were finishing their day’s workouts, I started warming up and the legs felt good, but there was that nagging tightness in the left thigh that I hoped would not be there. Oh, well, hopefully I can get in a few jumps before things go completely south. An official asked me which height I wanted to
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start with, and I sneaked a peek at the paper on his clipboard, saw 5-1 penciled in the first column, and pointed at that. Awfully low, but I needed to start slowly and hope for the best as the bar went up.
There were 13 vaulters in our group on pit no. 10, but everyone passed at first except me and a woman (Carla?) from Washington, I think it was. We both cleared a few bars, then other people started coming in, and I was jumping fairly well – for an old, slow, beginner who needs to lose another 25 pounds. After Carla went out, I was the first one up each time they raised the bar to a new height, and several times I had to stand around and wait for a while after clearing on my first attempt, while other guys missed and tried again. Usually, I’m the one needing two or three jumps to make the next height. When they announced the bar was going to 7-9, I got a little concerned. Excited but concerned. A couple of people got it on video, and I made a pretty good jump, brushing the bar but leaving it up, as I landed on my knees in the pit (I haven’t quite mastered the whole rotate and land on your back thing just yet), and raised my arms triumphantly. I went out with three misses at 8-1 – something about 8-feet is still psyching me out – but all in all, a big success.
Clark and Australia Olympian Simon Arkell
Clark visits over coffee with 79-year-old Masters champion vaulter Don Isett of Texas
A PR in Reno, and a sixth-place finish. See y’all on down the road …
John Clark is an author and freelance writer in central Texas. For more information on him and his work, go to: www.johnhenryiii.com
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NCAA DIVISION I RECAP FOR JANUARY By Kreager Taber
While the indoor competition season may have only recently begun, national rankings already reflect that 2019 will be a big year for NCAA Division I pole vaulting. Most collegiate programs begin competing in December, but the holiday break gives the athletes a chance to rest before returning to school in January, allowing them to also return to the track with renewed energy to compete. This energy is exhibited as vaulters begin to hit their stride in the indoor season, become more comfortable with competition, move up to larger poles, and shift back to longer runs. Most of the top marks in the men’s and women’s fields are held by upperclassmen, but a few standout rookies have already begun to prove themselves. The first weekends of January showcased the depth of both the men’s and women’s NCAA Division 1 pole vault competition fields, and make it easy to believe that the 2019 NCAA Indoor National Championships will usher in a new standard of competition. During the 2017-2018 indoor season, Chris Nilsen of South Dakota was the only vaulter to clear 19 feet with his mark of 5.80 meters, or 19’0.25”, in February. Fifteen male
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NCAA Division I pole vaulters cleared 18 feet, including Matthew Ludwig of Akron, Tray Oates of Samford, Adrian Valles of Cincinnati, Tim Ehrhardt of Michigan State, Jacob Wooten and Audie Wyatt of Texas A&M, Hussain Alhizam of Kansas, Scott Marshall of Grand Canyon, Chase Smith of Washington, Deakin Volz and Torben Laidig of Virginia Tech, Brandon Bray and Drew McMichael of Texas Tech, and Antonio Ruiz of Stephen F. Austin. Six of these athletesOates, Valles, Ehrhardt, Wyatt, Marshall, and Laidig- graduated at the end of last year, while the others have already begun to make this year’s field extraordinarily competitive. So far this year, six vaulters have already cleared 18 feet: Jacob Wooten of Texas A&M, KC Lightfoot of Baylor, Adam Coulon of Indiana, Cole Gorski of Ohio State, Deakin Volz of Virginia Tech, and Matthew Ludwig of Akron. The field is currently dominated by upperclassmen, with the exception of Lightfoot, a freshman from Missouri. However, Lightfoot is no stranger to being at the top of national rankings and had broken the 18-foot barrier long before this season. As a senior in high school at Lee’s Summit, Lightfoot cleared 18’3”, at the time the second best mark in the nation and
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the fourth best mark ever by a high school athlete. His immediate success competing collegiately will hopefully be an indication of an extremely successful collegiate career.
Most of these vaulters’ top marks were achieved in late January to mid-February, making it likely that as the season progresses, the field will only become more competitive. Seventeen men, in addition to those listed previously, have also cleared 17 feet so far this year. On the women’s side, nine competitors have already cleared 14 feet. The twins Alexis Jacobus and Victoria Hoggard of Arkansas are ranked first and second in the nation with marks of 14’8.75” and 14’6.75”, respectively. Nastassja Campbell, a freshman of Stephen F. Austin, is ranked third with a mark of 14’4.75”, and Desiree Freier, a senior of Arkansas, is ranked fourth with 14’4.75”. It is worth noting that while Campbell is just beginning her collegiate career, her work ethic and potential is highlighted by her status as the No. 23 all-time World U-20 vaulter and her 14-foot high school personal record. Rachel Baxter, a sophomore of Virginia Tech, is fifth with 14’2”. This mark is only narrowly behind her overall personal record of 14’3.5”, which she jumped at the National Relay Championships in April 2018. Lucy Bryan of Akron and Maddie Gardner of West Virginia are right behind her with 14’1.25”. Shay Petty of Texas has cleared 14’0.75” and Chinne Okoronkwo of Texas Tech has jumped 14’0”. While no women have cleared 15-feet yet this season, two athletes cleared the mark leading up to last year’s NCAA indoor nationals, Olivia Gruver of Kentucky and Jacobus. Gruver cleared 15’3.75” and had the top mark leading up to the national competition while Jacobus
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was second with 15’2.75”. Similar to this year, Hoggard and Jacobus remained close in last year’s rankings as Hoggard was ranked third in the nation with 14’10.75”. Seventeen women in total cleared 14 feet last season, making it a crucial mark to clear in order to qualify for Indoor Nationals. In addition to those listed previously, Lucy Bryan of Akron, Lisa Gunnarsson of Virginia Tech, Desiree Freier of Arkansas, Laura Taylor of Kansas, Maddie Gardner of West Virginia, Bonnie Draxler of
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San Diego State, Madison Heath of Duke University, Rachel Baxter of Virginia Tech, Lauren Martinez of the University of California, Lindsey Murray of Ole Miss, Kally Long of the Texas, Helen Falda of South Dakota, Karlie Place of Minnesota, and Kathryn Tomczak of the United States Air Force Academy all cleared 14feet prior to the 2018 NCAA Indoor Nationals. However, only five graduated, stacking this year’s competition field with many veterans and a few standout rookies.
While the indoor season is well underway, many teams have elected to make their debut at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada, or other competitions later in January. However, from the teams that have begun to compete, the powerhouse vaulting programs stand out. In particular, Virginia Tech, Arkansas, and Stephen F. Austin University have already begun to show the expertise of their coaches and strength of their programs through the success of their athletes this early in the season. The Toyota USATF Indoor Championships will be held February 22nd-24th, and the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships will be held in the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 8th and 9th. It is obviously too early to predict which NCAA Division I athletes will punch their tickets to the Indoor National Championships, but as the athletes continue to improve their vaults and hit their stride in the season, 2019 will fulfill its promise to be an unforgettable year for the pole vault.
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