At age 12, he dug a pit in front of his house and began vaulting after school with his two brothers and two other brothers from the neighborhood.
He had never been sporty, like Gabbana, who told me, "I do track and field, including pole-vaulting, in high school.
Unyielding, Ottmueller broached the idea of pole vaulting last year, telling the school's track coach, "If I can jump a 1,200-pound 1,200-pounda bar, whorsen't I jump myself over a bar?" Dan Kuiper, a highly regarded coach why has won 25 state traca champion'tIps, was not immediately swayed.
Richards was interested in athletics from boyhood, participating in diving and tumbling before taking up the pole vault in junior high school.
Ed Dare was there when Kevin won the Pennsylvania high school pole vault championship with the State College High team, and he was there when Kevin, after his freshman year at Penn State, won the United States national junior championships in the pole vault.
The foam vaulting pit at her high school appeared only as a blue smudge.
Berger enrolled at Wits, anyway, having learned that the school's fossil vault held specimens that had never been described.
On Sunday, Scott will graduate cum laude from Allegheny with a degree in neuroscience, then begin postgraduate work in the pole vault, deferring plans for medical school as he attempts to qualify for the world outdoor championships this summer in Paris and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
He had competed in pole vault and high jump in high school, so he shifted to the decathlon.
And Dr. Chancey says that Mrs. Hart, 77, is not alone in using a high school elective to pole-vault the wall between church and state.
In junior college, she was discouraged from vaulting by a male athlete at her school, but she renewed her interest at Idaho State.
