New Balnce Indoor Nationals

[Branko720]

Hey I don't know how many people have girls competing this year, but I wonder if anyone has seen what they are doing with the entries.

They have two divisions now, elite and emerging elite. The qualifying standard for emerging elite is 10'9" and elite is 12'.

Now from time to time they do accept entries below standards. They have one section of emerging elite and they were suppose to have two sections of elite, a seeded and unseeded section.

Now this is a slow year for girls high school pole vault, but also with the entries they received there are 50 girls competing on Friday for the emerging elite section, and they now only have one section of 16 elite girls on Sunday. There are quite a few girls jumping on Friday who have pr's of 11'9" who could have jumped on Sunday in an unseeded section of elite girls. Now for $40 of an entry fee I don't understand why they would squeeze 50 girls into a competition. That doesn't seem right, especially for a meet that is expensive and suppose to be run well. At the very least they should have split the emerging elite girls into two sections.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

[rainbowgirl28]

I saw a tweet from a kid indicating they were being moved up to the elite section?

50 girls is insane. I think when I was competing at NAIAs, we had around 40 girls one year, and 30 the next. It was nutzo. Looooong warmups.

[Vaultref]

Fifty athletes... for tomorrows 10AM vault??
Ugh! I sure hope you are wrong.. That will really stress out my crew knowing that.

How many for the boys "EE"? That is supposed to follow the girls "EE" at 1PM.

I'm feeling a little woozy now.

[Branko720]

Not sure on the boys, but I feel ya. That's why I don't understand why they didn't bump some of the girls into an unseeded section of elite on Sunday.

[pursuit16]

36 boys competing in EE

[2-15-46]

Nice article on the the boys

http://espn.go.com/blog/high-school/tra ... tes-to-top

[AVC Coach]

Historically, this is the best boys field ever assembled for this meet! Good luck to these guys today!

[AVC Coach]

RESULTS:

==========================================================================
Flight 1 at noon; Flight 2 at 3:00pm
Starting Height: 14-2.5
Progression: 14-8.25, 15-2.25, 15-8.25, 16-0, 16-4, 16-8, 17-0,
17-3.75, 17-7.5 , 17-9.75
National: N 17-09.25 6/11/2011 Andrew Irwin, Mt. Ida, AR
Meet: M 17-05 3/13/2007 Maston Wallace, Clr Brk,Friendswood,
NSIC Meet: I 17-06 3/17/1985 Brandon Richards, S Marcos,Sta Barba
Armory: A 17-03.75 3/12/2011 Andrew Irwin, Mt. Ida, AR
Freshman: F 15-06.25 3/4/2006 Corey Shank, Canterbury, IN
Sophomore: O 16-09 1994 Jacob Davis, Orangefield, TX
Junior: J 17-06.25 5/11/2010 Andrew Irwin, Mt. Ida, AR
Name Year School Finals
==========================================================================
Finals
1 Jacob Blankenship 12 Una-Oh-Bucke 5.18m 17-00.00
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88 4.98 5.08 5.18 5.40
PPP PPP PPP PPP XO XO O O XXX
2 Shawnacy Barber 12 Una-Tx-Kingw 5.08m 16-08.00
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88 4.98 5.08 5.18
PPP O PPP O O XO XXO XXX
3 Daven Murphree 13 Una-Tx-Winns 4.98m 16-04.00
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88 4.98 5.08
PPP PPP O O XXO O XXX
4 Dylan Bell 12 Tejas Vaulters 4.98m 16-04.00
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88 4.98 5.08
PPP PPP PPP O O XXO XXX
5 Kyle Padalecki 12 Una-Tx-Saint 4.88m 16-00.00
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88 4.98
PPP XXO O XXO XXO XXX
6 Kyle Johnston 12 Una-In-Grang 4.78m 15-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88
O O O O XXX
6 Dylan Duvio 13 John Curtis 4.78m 15-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88
PPP PPP O O XXX
8 Greg Gallagher 12 Iona Prep Tc-Ny 4.78m 15-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88
PPP O O XXO XXX
9 Jared Allison 12 VaultWorX-PA 4.78m 15-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78 4.88
O PPP XXO XXO XXX
10 Patrick Anderson 12 Kane Area Tc-Pa 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
PPP XO O XXX
11 Alexandru Barker 12 Conrad Weiser Tc-Pa 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
XO XXO O XXX
12 Michael Jensen 13 Appoquinimink Tc-De 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
PPP PPP XO XXX
13 Jeffrey Linta 12 North Myrtle 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
PPP XO XO XXX
14 Jesse Oxley 12 Berne Union Tc-Oh 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
XO XO XO XXX
15 Austin Vegas 12 East Forsyth Tc-Nc 4.63m 15-02.25
4.33 4.48 4.63 4.78
PPP XO XXO XXX
16 Bradley Johnson 12 Floyd E. Kel 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
O O XXX
16 Brendan Sullivan 12 Patriot Pole 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
O O XXX
16 Shawn Mayer 12 Palmyra Area Tc-Pa 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
O O XXX
16 Michael Cyphers 12 Una-Nh-Grant 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
O O XXX
20 Derek O'Connell 12 Una-Va-Virgi 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
XO O XXX
20 Craig Hunter 13 Ipolevault-Nj 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
XO O XXX
20 Mike Brunoforte 12 Empire Vaulters-NY 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
XO O XXX
23 Daniel Emery 12 Landon Athletics-MI 4.48m 14-08.25
4.33 4.48 4.63
O XO XXX
24 Tim Murphy 12 New Fairfield Tc-Ct 4.33m 14-02.50
4.33 4.48
O XXX
25 Jesse Laverdiere 12 Laurel Highl 4.33m 14-02.50
4.33 4.48
XO XXX
-- Fredrick Krieger 13 Una-Mn-Orono NH
4.33
XXX
-- Jaime Salisbury 12 Una-Mi-East_ NH
4.33
XXX

[rainbowgirl28]

Interview with Blankenship: http://usa.milesplit.com/meets/103027/videos/?id=22963

[superpipe]

Gotta tell ya, I had a girl in the EE division and was amazed at how well the event was run with the 47 girls that showed. The officiating crew was fantastic! They opened the pit for warmups almost 2 hours before the start time. Everyone got plenty of warm-up. Biggest issue was sitting around time for the vaulters that came in later or made their first attempts at each height. The waiting time didn't seem to affect anyone. The girls would check to see where they were in the 5-alive order every so often at the officials table and warm themselves up in time. Everyone was ready to go. Sure, the event went well past it's estimated time before the boys started, but it was run perfectly smooth. Props to the officiating crew. Phenom job by them and the staff helping with bar placement to keep things moving well the whole time. It was an awesome event!