Bailey is dedicated year-round to a vault, though is no specialist. At Wednesday’s Blue Hen Conference Championships, she also won a middle hurdles, helped Middletown to second place in a 4×200 relay, and was third in a high jump.Bailey became Delaware’s initial 12-foot stick vaulter final Saturday, erasing a 2010 record of 11-6 by A.I. du Pont’s Courtney Markow.“In use we wish to work on a basics, a inverting, a roll-throughs, not a whole jump,” Bailey pronounced of a exhausting event. “You wish to relax yourself and not get sore.”Like many of Delaware’s tip vaulters, she trains with Chris Watson during a Deasil Pole Vault Club.“We’re training them to be sprinters, jumpers, throwers, all a events in one,” pronounced Watson.“Ashley’s unequivocally aggressive. She’s not afraid. That’s a ideal quality,” pronounced runner-up Erin Lash of Appoquinimink, who trains during a same club. more
