Which states have middle school vault?

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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby wfpv » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:39 am

North Dakota has it.
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby paigepolevault » Sun Sep 02, 2012 9:52 pm

SC also has middle school vaulting. I believe NC does as well.
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby birdi_gurlie » Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:28 pm

NC does not have middle school vault, except maybe in a few select areas. We did not have it in my middle school and that's my state.
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby Dakmyr » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:34 am

Michigan has pole vault for both boys and girls starting in the 7th grade. In our middle school conference top boys are about 10' to 11' and for girls are 7'6" to 8'6"
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby charlie » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:21 pm

GEORGIA!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby Gary_vaulter » Mon Mar 11, 2013 2:58 pm

Alabama is a real mixed bag.

Alabama has sanctioned Varsity meets with Middle School (7&8) divisions but no "State" level, Middle School meet.
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Many middle schools do not have track teams so their athletes are allowed to vault JV (7,8,9) for the High School they feed.
There are also JV and middle school meets in various regions of the state that are sanctioned while in others they aren't. In North Alabama these are very loosely run, I don't believe they even record results. The idea is just to give the younger kids a chance to get some meet experience before they get to High School.
Then there are some city school systems that hold sanctioned MS meets for their city schools ... but don't allow the polevault (go figure).
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby charlie » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:41 pm

GEORGIA--- has a State Championship---GISA private schools in Georgia allow 8th graders to compete---have had 2 -5time State Champions in GISA!
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby scpolevaulter » Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:52 pm

paigepolevault wrote:SC also has middle school vaulting. I believe NC does as well.


Middle schools do not have pole vaulting in SC, however you can move up to your high school team and pole vault for the high school you will attend.
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby saylmj22 » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:56 am

Pennsylvania starts at 7th grade (if the school has the facilities)
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby REESES » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:04 pm

Minnesota
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby fchipr » Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:46 pm

Last I checked, USATF does not allow 11, 12 year olds to vault....too bad too
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Re: Which states have middle school vault?

Unread postby REESES » Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:00 pm

Minnesota has it... we can compete varsity starting in 7th grade I started pole vaulting in 6th grade I started middle school vault and in 8th I went to state and got second with 10'6
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