Skipper?

[BethelPV]

WHen is he going to be back and healthy again? How is his knee doing? I hope he gets that 19' here real soon! I can't wait to see what he does in the future. I wish him a great comeback from that surgery!

Zachmo

[joel_tien]

looks like he is tentatively entered for the Oregon Twighlight meet. guess we'll have to wait and see if he jumps....

[TreyDECA]

i heard he pulled a hamstring...

(there is no validity to the above statement)

[rainbowgirl28]

1 Robbie Johnston Southern Oregon 5.30m 17-04.50
2 Piotr Buciaski Nike 5.20m 17-00.75
3 Tommy Skipper Oregon 5.20m 17-00.75
4 Jon Derby Oregon 5.05m 16-06.75
5 Bryan Quinn Unattached 4.90m 16-00.75
6 David Moore Oregon 4.90m 16-00.75
7 Ryan Musselman Southern Oregon 4.75m 15-07
8 Santiago Lorenzo Unattached 4.75m 15-07
-- Tim Morse Willamette Strid NH
-- Keegan Burnett Lane CC NH


Not a bad first meet back for Tommy. That's a big jump by Robbie Johnston, NAIAs should be a great meet this year.

And what's that?? Tim Morse is jumping again?? WOW

[rainbowgirl28]

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregon ... thispage=2

Becky Holliday, in her first competition since recovering from a freak injury, won the women's pole vault with a jump of 14 feet, 11/4 inches. The mark tied her meet record, which the former Oregon vaulter set last year.

"I would have liked to have gone higher, but I was out for a month," she said.

Holliday hurt herself when she threw down her pole in frustration at the end of a run-through, and the pole bounced up and jammed her in her left leg. Thrown off balance, she suffered a sprained ankle.

Oregon sophomore Tommy Skipper, who won NCAA pole vault championships in the 2004 outdoor and 2005 indoor meets, also came back from injury and cleared 17-03/4.

Obviously rusty, Skipper failed to get over the bar on the other five attempts he took, two at 17-03/4 and three at 17-81/2.

He finished third in Saturday's competition, but more important, gained a qualifying mark for the NCAA West Regional championships.

Skipper underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in March. But, after resuming training, he strained his left hamstring two weeks ago. The injury has limited him in practice.

In fact, in the past two weeks, Skipper had taken one full-approach vault. The hamstring finally stopped hurting Friday, which was when Skipper finally decided he was well enough to compete.

"Up here, everything felt good," Skipper said, pointing at his head. "But as far as my condition and rhythm on the runway, everything is terrible right now."

[rainbowgirl28]

Holliday hurt herself when she threw down her pole in frustration at the end of a run-through, and the pole bounced up and jammed her in her left leg. Thrown off balance, she suffered a sprained ankle.

Throwing poles in frustration = bad news

[VTechVaulter]

chances are she didn't throw it in frustration. some people kind of bounce the pole of the box on run threws. it was prolly just an unlucky aborted jump

although i didn't see it but.. this is still my .02

[wacky274]

i had this happen not long ago, i ran through pole in hand, decided not to go really early, pole bounced back and hit my on the right side of my ribs...wasnt that i threw it down, simply ran through and let the pole go slide into the box...bad idea

[lonestar]

I hate it when people drop the pole on the runway when they're running through. Take the thing into the pit with you without hitting the crossbar or standards. It's not that difficult to do.

[vaultwest]

I was at the Oregon Twilight on Saturday. Tommy looked pretty good but he was back to his sometimes bad habit of getting back too fast. Lots of height but he just couldn't get deep enough into the pit. He almost no heighted, on his third jump at his opener 5.20m 17' 3/4" he got just deep enough to clear(lots of height almost hit the bar coming down) his standard were at around 60 all day. he passed 5.30m and at 5.40 he came up short on the first jump seemed to put a good jump together and blew through a little on the second and then it looked like he went up poles on his third and came up short. Becky did throw her pole down on the runnway before she planted in frustration to cause her injury, probably a hard lesson for her but I am sure she learned from it.
Later

[jomrus]

I know what that's like. I was running through real bad one day in practice, and I threw my pole down into the mat as I pushed it through with me. The pole hit me hard on my face above the eye, and then rotated under me, and smacked my nuts pretty hard. Needless to say... I haven't done that since.

[VTechVaulter]

the other day i got real unlucky, i normally push it through but for some reason it went off the the right and pinned against the standars, and i tripped right over it... it was pretty embarrassing. haha