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Hooker visits Sullivan
Australia –As if flying between Perth and Melbourne on a weekly basis for Dancing with the Stars performances wasn’t already taxing enough for Eamon Sullivan, things are about to get even more hectic...
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Pac-12 universities adopt sweeping reforms for student-athletes, guaranteeing...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27, 2014 – Sweeping reforms for student-athletes, including guaranteed four-year athletic scholarships, continuing education, improved health care, liberalized transfer rules, and...
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SAILING-RACE-RHUM-GALFIONE
Caption:French skipper and former French pole vaulter olympic champion Jean Galfione poses aboard his class 40 monohull on October 28, 2014 in Saint Malo, western France, before the 10th edition of the...
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Reflections of an Ole’ Coach by Bill Falk
I got to thinking about my first full-time teacher/coach job in Attleboro, MA in 1952. Having just received my MA, I was desperate for work and ready to accept a job anywhere in the country. Jobs were...
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Ramblings of an Ole’ Coach
By Bill Falk Coaching Track & Field, the world’s greatest sport, for 60+ years has given me a host of unforgettable memories. Strangely, I have always rated an off-the-field happening as my fondest...
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TFN: 2014 High School Top Boys
POLE VAULT 1. DEVIN KING # …………(Sumner, Kentwood, La) 1) PVS, NBIN, TexR, State, NBN; 2) USAJ; 18-½ HSL 2. *PAULO BENAVIDES …..(Franklin, El Paso, Tx) 1) State-5A, GSW; 3)TexasR; 4)USAJ; 7)PVS; 17-2¾...
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TFN: 2014 Top High School Girls
POLE VAULT 1. DESIREE FREIER # ….. (Northwest, Justin, Tx) 1) Texas R, State-5A, NBN, USAJ; 14-7¼ HSR 2. BONNIE DRAXLER # ……… (Wrightstown, Wi) 1) State; 2)USAJ; 13-7¼ 3. *KAITLYN MERRITT # .(SM,...
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Mark Hollis Finally A 19-Footer
Sieg Lindstrom Scaling 19-feet in the pole vault, especially in career terms, can be more like climbing a mountain than clearing a bar. Few vaulters understand that as personally as 29-year-old...
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TFN Status Quo
THE LATEST in the aches, pains & eligibility departments Some significant international names will pass on indoors to focus on training for next summer. Poland’s ’09 PV world champion Anna...
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University of Colorado inducts nine to athletic hall of fame
During a ceremony Thursday night, Colorado added nine new members to the school’s athletic hall of fame including this vaulter: Don Meyers, track and field (1959-62; 1968-75 as coach) — Earned NCAA...
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Kingsport bridge dedicated to Vietnam veteran and former vaulter
KINGSPORT, Tennessee — Eddie Reed was a serious athlete, a runner and a pole vaulter, who enjoyed to hunt and fish. A wonderful father, brother and son…his parents were very proud of his service to the...
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Cooke puts winter plans on ice to get herself back on track . .
The Edinburgh woman, who represented Scotland in pole vault and long jump at two Commonwealth Games, is already back in training, having returned to athletics. She believes her best performances are...
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RIP: Stangeland former vaulter and coach
Los Angeles –Former USC assistant football coach Jim Stangeland, who was on the staff of the Trojans’ 1967 national championship team and also was the head football coach at Long Beach State and Long...
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SAILING-RACE- RHUM-GALFIONE-LAVILLENIE
Caption:French pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie (R) and French former pole vault champion and skipper Jean Galfione pose on Galfione’s Class 40 monohull in Saint Malo, western France, on November...
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Alma mater to honor Jenn Suhr
Olympic pole vault champion Jenn Suhr is being honored with a monument at her western New York alma mater. The Observer of Dunkirk reports that the Fredonia Board of Education recently accepted the...
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Kundan sets meet record
India — Services’ Kundan set a new meet record in pole vault, clearing a height of 5.06m on Day One of the season-ending ONGC 54th National Open Athletics Championships here on Sunday. He bettered the...
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From Erie to Hollywood: Former coach consulted on Brad Pitt film
ERIE — When Bernie Null, 79, recalled his old high school coach, he smiled. One of just 37 graduates of Erie High’s class of 1953, Mr. Null showed off his senior yearbook, which was dedicated to George...
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Ashland U. vaulter has internship
ASHLAND — Troy resident Kyle Roeth, a senior marketing major at Ashland University, served as an intern this past summer for Enterprise in Dayton. Roeth is very involved on the AU campus and is a pole...
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Berlin to launch Olympic bid
Berlin will on Tuesday launch a campaign to host either the 2024 or 2028 Olympics — 78 years after Germany’s capital last hosted the summer games. Organisers hope to call the 2024 Olympic and...
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Former vaulter dances way into Hall of Fame
New Jersey — Kevin Michaels is the only song-and-dance man being inducted into the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame on Friday night.He was a great athlete, no doubt about it, but he could also take to...
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