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As we know, vaulting is an event within the sport of T&F. With the hugh popularity of pole vaulting, what would be the likelyhood of the pole vault becoming a sport of its own during the fall? Cross Country is an extenion of T&F, golf and tennis have a fall and spring season. During track season only 3 vaulters can be entered in a meet, per team. In the fall season, a team could consist of 6 vaulters. Add up total feet the team cleared to determine the winning team. This would allow more kids to participate and help to justify the expensive event. This might help to promote the event in a time when schools or states are talking about dropping the vault. Maybe I am just a fanatic "vault nut". Does anyone think this would work?

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Cross country and track are seperate and have been as far as I know. Sprinting is far more popular (just looking at numbers of participants) and we don't see sprinting as a seperate sport in its own season.

So, no. I sereously doubt that vaulting will ever split from Track, although it would be awesome!

htheodore wrote:As we know, vaulting is an event within the sport of T&F. With the hugh popularity of pole vaulting, what would be the likelyhood of the pole vault becoming a sport of its own during the fall?

Slim to none.

Fall is the time to train anyway, not to be focusing on competing. Jumping in a few meets from short run is fun, but having it be a serious competitive sport would give kids no time to rest and recover and focus on getting stronger and faster for the next season.

htheodore wrote:With the hugh popularity of pole vaulting, what would be the likelyhood of the pole vault becoming a sport of its own during the fall?

What country are you from???

SlickVT wrote:

htheodore wrote:With the hugh popularity of pole vaulting, what would be the likelyhood of the pole vault becoming a sport of its own during the fall?

What country are you from???

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Most people who learn that I pole vault tell me that I'm crazy and that they would never be able to do it themselves...I wasn't aware that jumping with a pole was so frightening. In fact, it's mostly guys that tell me that I'm crazy...

Is there not a lot of interest throuout the US?

I think, in recent years, there's a huge interest in pole vaulting. Mostly because of the introduction of female competitions. Special thanks to the girls!

Like Becca said, the fall is the time of year everyone should be focusing on physical training and improving technique. If everyday was Christmas, those presents under the tree wouldn't seem so exciting.

htheodore wrote:Is there not a lot of interest throuout the US?

not where i come from in Southern Illinois

No indoor track&field season or USATF clubs down your way?

Many of the schools up my way have indoor teams for about a 3 month period starting in December that finishes up in the first week of March with an indoor championship with all the other participating schools from around the state.

While the number of vaulters varies from year to year, there are usually between 18 to 30 vaulters spread over 23 schools in my sectional area. Once had 49 at a meet. Now that was tough to get them all done in 4 hours!

Vaultref wrote:No indoor track&field season or USATF clubs down your way?

Many of the schools up my way have indoor teams for about a 3 month period starting in December that finishes up in the first week of March with an indoor championship with all the other participating schools from around the state.

While the number of vaulters varies from year to year, there are usually between 18 to 30 vaulters spread over 23 schools in my sectional area. Once had 49 at a meet. Now that was tough to get them all done in 4 hours!

No sanctioned indoor season in Texas, since there are only 2 indoor tracks in the entire state. Still those 2 schools host at least 1 high school indoor meet per year, and an All-Comers, plus you can drive to Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Arkansas and compete. Then there are a few vault-only meets put on privately. You're on your own, but you can create an indoor season if you want to.

Vaultref wrote:No indoor track&field season or USATF clubs down your way?

Many of the schools up my way have indoor teams for about a 3 month period starting in December that finishes up in the first week of March with an indoor championship with all the other participating schools from around the state.

While the number of vaulters varies from year to year, there are usually between 18 to 30 vaulters spread over 23 schools in my sectional area. Once had 49 at a meet. Now that was tough to get them all done in 4 hours!

No indoor season in florida either, though we dont really need it with the weather down here. and only 18-30 vaulters, hope your talkin bout just varsity otherwise thats kinda small. my school normally has around 8-10 guy vaulters and like 5 girl vaulters. and then St Thomas, school around my area, has at least 20 girl vaulters alone, they have an insane amount of vaulters. The biggest meet ive been in vault wise is the disney meet and it was huge. 52 girls and like 51 guys. it was the first event to start at around 6-7am i think and at 7pm it was still goin. there were 2 people left from st thomas at that point and they were only at 13', they decided to just split 1st place. me and my friend were injured for that part of the season otherwise we woulda probably been up there at 3 and 4th but the st thomas kids def woulda won anyways.
so ya vaults pretty popular down in florida but theres also a lot of schools that dont even have a vaulter. Were im from there are plenty of vaulters and like 3 actual coaches that know wat their doing, im lucky enough to have one of them. its really dissapointing to see the lack of coaching, (ive seen kids, guys, jump under the bar, w/o touching it or knocking it down, and throw there pole away while the bar was at 7ft, opening height) but even if we get more coaches to start teaching the large amount of vaulters down here i highly doubt it would ever break off as a seperate sport. a lot of people tell me and my friend that were crazy as hell and i think i agree.

robillard wrote:only 18-30 vaulters, hope your talkin bout just varsity otherwise thats kinda small.

We have hundreds of vaulters in the state during outdoor track. I meant that maybe only 18-30, probably less, make their own indoor season travelling to the available meets.