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DEXTER — Howard Booth, to the untrained eye, is just your average biology professor at Eastern Michigan University. But, unbeknownst to most, Booth is a world champion pole vaulter, besting the top contenders in his age bracket from all over the world. Booth, who lives in Dexter Township and works out at the Chelsea Wellness Center, got into pole vaulting in his high school years. “I loved track and field in junior high school and as a 9th grader, I wanted to be a sprinter but wasn’t quite fast enough to compete,” Booth said. “So I picked pole vaulting because most of the other athletes didn’t want to work hard enough to learn how to do it.” Booth would become the top vaulter by his junior year of high school, and would set school and conference records and place fourth in the state in his senior year. This journey would continue into college, where Booth would be recruited to pole vault for EMU, attaining third place in the conference tournament his junior year. more
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