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It was a great afternoon for the Rice vaulters, not only did Jason clear 5.55 and break the school record, but earlier in the afternoon Senior Rachel Greff set a school record at 4.20 and it was her birthday! With the leading male and female DI vaulters in the nation currently, it looks like Coach B...

This may be a little long, but it is full of good information from David Butler at Rice University...

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Yes, Harvard was there, they are in town for ten days to train over their spring break and compete at a couple of meets including the Victor Lopez Bayou Classic on Sat; as they have done for a number of years now You where there for the Rice practice and the start of the Harvard practice.

If anyone in the Houston area is looking for practice for the upcoming season. RICE UNIVERSITY POLE VAULT will have practice sessions in the evenings on mondays and thursdays at the Rice University Track. Cost is 30.00 per athlete. Poles are provided if needed. All abilities and ages are invited. R...

Yes; we do yoga, pilates, and ballet as part of our general strength training, in addition to bar, rope and med-ball stuff

I would definitely go to the effort of at least talking to an official, because sometimes the school can have really particular rules. I was at LSU last weekend and had an official tell me and another one of our vaulters that we were not allowed to film/take pictures of our male vaulter (for our coa...

Not true, its not the first women's decathlon in America; Washington has had a high school girls decathlon for a couple of years now (I competed in it my senior year of high school (2003) at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland). It is just the first IAAF-ratifiable.

Yes, I vault at Rice with Coach Butler. He is an amazing sorce of knowledge when it come to the vault, and he is always trying to learn more, this summer he is going to europe (greece i believe) to study and learn more with some of the european coaches. He truely believes in what people have been ca...

Part of the problem is that the newspaper does not know about the track meets. You and your coaches need to be proactive and get them the results (possibly even pointing out the more newsworthy performances) so that they know what is going on. If there is a particulary big meet coming up, like distr...

I was wondering if anyone knew of any places around Seattle (I'm from Bellevue) that have a practice like situation where I could vault once or twice a week during the summer. I come home mid-May and just want to be able to get on a pole once and while so that I don't lose all of my technique before...