NCAA Women - Hutson wins with 4.40

[CowtownPV]

Any guess why the NCAA set the progression at 10 centimeters all the way to 4.40? I belive they said the meet record was 4.41. It would have been nice to go to 4.35, I think 2nd through 6th might have changed. The boys started 5 centimeters at 5.50.

[rainbowgirl28]

Any guess why the NCAA set the progression at 10 centimeters all the way to 4.40? I belive they said the meet record was 4.41. It would have been nice to go to 4.35, I think 2nd through 6th might have changed. The boys started 5 centimeters at 5.50.

I agree with you that going 5cm after 4.30 would have made a lot of sense.

[dj]

hey

b y the way i removed my original post....

refer to........ Advanced - Big Pole mentality…….

great vault competitions...


dj

[vballcoach]

Did I miss something or was there just a total lack of pole vault coverage on CBS other than of Jason Colwick's jump and no Women pole vault?

The NCAA live streaming coverage looked more like a fill-in between Track events.

[rainbowgirl28]

Did I miss something or was there just a total lack of pole vault coverage on CBS other than of Jason Colwick's jump and no Women pole vault?

The NCAA live streaming coverage looked more like a fill-in between Track events.

All I saw was Colwick's winning vault from that worthless head-on angle *sigh*

When meets are televised, no one with media credentials is supposed to be filming, or can only do so in a very limited way. Track events will always have priority over field events for TV coverage or even live feeds.

[vballcoach]

Now posted on YouTube, Kylie Hutson at 4.40m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4o-9ydxxSU

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=68570

Neuenswander leaps in as runner-up in pole vault for NCAAs
By ARI SHIFRON | IDS
POSTED AT 06:18 PM ON JUN. 14, 2009

The second-best women’s pole vaulter in the country is none other than the Hoosiers’ Vera Neuenswander.

Neuenswander finished as the runner-up to Indiana State’s Kylie Huston at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

By virtue of being the only competitor to clear 4.00, 4.10, 4.20 and 4.30 meters on her first attempts, Neuenswander headed into the 4.40-meter height with the lead. However, Huston cleared the 4.40-meter jump to become national champion, and Neuenswander could not clear that height and placed second.

Neuenswander said she was happy to do as well as she did, despite barely missing the national championship.

“I did as much as I could have hoped for,” she said. “It was a great day, and I feel blessed to do as well as I did.”

Also competing for the Hoosiers and earning All-American awards were sophomore Sarah Pease and senior Tiffany Howard. Pease finished seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and Howard placed ninth in the shot put.

Pease, who ran by three competitors on the last lap and a half, said she was very proud of herself.

“I was really, really pleased with my time,” she said. “Going into the last lap, I knew I could pass the people I did.”

IU coach Ron Helmer praised the performance of his All-Americans.

“Vera was excellent in the finals, and Sara was patient with a great competitive effort,” he said. “Tiffany also did well for her first trip to nationals.”

Also competing at the national championships was freshman Derek Drouin and juniors Molly Beckwith, Ashley Rhoades and Wendi Robinson. Rhoades placed 13th in high jump, and Robinson was 15th in the 10,000-meter run.

Beckwith and Drouin both were among the country’s top athletes in their respective events but were unable to place out of the preliminary rounds of the 800-meter run and high jump, respectively.

By virtue of Neuenswander’s and Pease’s top-eight finishes, the Hoosiers scored 10 points as a team. The overall national champion for both the men and women was Texas A&M.

Helmer said the national championship and this year as a whole represent significant progress for the Hoosiers.

“We are a top-30 team and headed in the right direction,” he said. “None of our athletes could make nationals last year, and now they can.”

IU returns to action June 24 when its athletes will compete at the U.S. Track and Field Senior and Junior Championships in Eugene, Ore.

[rainbowgirl28]

http://arkansas.scout.com/2/872238.html

Stripling finishes fifth in vault

By Robbie Neiswanger
The Morning News/Razorback Central
Posted Jun 14, 2009

Katie Stripling falls short of title in the pole vault.

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas' Katie Stripling entered the NCAA Outdoor Championships with hopes of winning the school's first pole vault national title.

But the junior had to settle for something else: All-American honors for the second straight season.

Stripling, who was one of the favorites to win the title entering the event, finished fifth in the pole vault while teammate Sarah Landau also notched an eighth-place finish at John McDonnell Field on Friday night.

"I felt good, I just got nervous," Stripling said. "But this is just about being an All-American. It's still good."

Stripling, the 2009 Southeastern Conference indoor and outdoor champion, ran into trouble at an unexpected height midway through the competition.

Stripling, who holds the school record at 14 feet, 5 1/4 inches, missed on her first two attempts at the 13-5 1/4 mark. She slid over the bar on her third attempt to stay in the competition, but her night ended when she couldn't clear again at 14-5 1/4.

Indiana State's Kylie Hutson, who also won the indoor title, was the only one of six competitors to clear the final bar at 14-5 1/4. Stripling finished fifth because of the total misses she accumulated during the event.

"We had as good a chance at making it as anybody out here," Arkansas pole vault coach Bryan Compton said. "We just didn't put any good jumps together."

However, Compton wasn't disappointed with the results.

Stripling did secure four points for Arkansas. Landau, a senior, notched All-American honors and a personal best after clearing the bar at 13-9 1/4.

"She probably would've been fourth place last year," Compton said of Landau. "But this is a tough event. There's some really good jumpers."

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/48584602.html

Kayes earns redemption as All-American
Disappointment in indoor championships keeps UA vaulter focused in outdoor meet

By Tom Gaffney
Beacon Journal sports writer

Published on Friday, Jun 19, 2009


University of Akron track All-American Carrie Kayes outside the Stile Athletics Field House in Akron. (Ed Suba Jr./Akron Beacon Journal)


All-Americans are not born All-Americans. They earn such status, sometimes by being motivated by disappointments or setbacks.

Case in point: Carrie Kayes of the University of Akron.

In March, Kayes qualified in the pole vault for the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in College Station, Texas. Her brush with glory on the big stage ended abruptly, when she could not even clear the first height of 13 feet.

It's called ''No height'' in track and field parlance.



Last Friday, Kayes put that behind her in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Her successful vault of 14 feet, 11/4 inches tied the Mid-American Conference record and placed her sixth in the event.

It's called ''All-American'' in track and field parlance.

''It was kind of surreal because indoors, I completely blew it,'' said Kayes, 20, a Green High School graduate. ''It was the whole redemption thing. I worked so hard because I wanted to come back and prove I could do it.''

Kayes, a two-time state high school champion in the pole vault at Green, came into the final with a career best vault of 13-91/4. She exceeded that by four inches to claim one of the eight All-America slots.

Her vault actually was exceeded only by national-champion Kylie Hutson of Indiana State, who went 14-51/4. Kayes and four other vaulters also went 14-11/4, but Kayes was designated sixth based on number of misses.

''I cleared 13-9 by several inches. I was pretty sure that would have gotten me All-American and it would have, but I tried not to get too excited,'' said Kayes, a junior. ''I tried to stay focused because I know I can jump 14. But there is a difference between hoping I can do it and actually doing it.

''On the 14, I don't know how the bar stayed. I hit it but I didn't hit it hard enough, I guess. It was exciting.''

Zips coach Dennis Mitchell said Kayes was motivated by the poor indoor performance and by barely missing the outdoor nationals in 2008 as a sophomore.

''She is a great talent. By just missing nationals last year . . . she was the last one out at the regionals, she dedicated herself in a different way,'' Mitchell said. ''Then came in the indoors and what happened there.

''This time, I have never had a person . . . ever, ever . . . that focused and determined, She was amazing to watch. She had a competitive drive that got her through it.''

Kayes, who was the 2009 MAC indoor and outdoor champion in the event, was one of three Zips All-Americans in Fayetteville.

The others were senior Stevi Large, who was first in the women's hammer throw, and junior Daniel Kinsey, who was 10th in the men's decathlon. (All-Americans have to be born in the United States; Kinsey was the sixth among the eight All-Americans in the event.).

The Zips have had at least one All-American in track since 1998. This was the 14th time that UA has had two or more All-Americans.

It was the Zips' program in general and Mitchell in particular that led Kayes to choose UA over Cincinnati, Toledo and Bowling Green during the recruiting process in 2006.

''If I was going to stay with it, I wanted to do it the right way. I wanted to get better and Akron was the place to do it,'' Kayes said. ''I have worked with coach Mitchell since my freshman year in high school, so I knew what he was all about and the successes he has had.

''I am glad to [have] picked Akron and stayed here. Some people said I needed to go away to college, but I like being close to home.''

And liked earning her way to being an All-American.