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does anyone have any contorversey with another sport using the inside of your track? Or areas around your track?

The reason i ask is the Girls volleyball coach says he gets disrupted while he is coaching if we are vaulting BEHIND his back. He got the administration to ask us to stop vaulting while he has practice, now we dont have any other time to practice.

anyone have this problem, or does it just suck to be me?

If another sport used the inside of our track they would get hit by hammers

The kickers on the football team often practice at the same time we are vaulting. Our pit is sorta behind one of the goals. I swear sometimes they aim for us... today I was narrowly missed twice, hitting my pole both times!

We pretty much have control of our track when the whole team is out there. If other sports are going to be doing conditioning or something on our track they usually schedule around us.

So with our outdoor track

The F#CKIN MARCHING BAD practices on our infield. THey play the stupidest stuff and we cant hear a word our coach is saying.

Indoor track

We have a little man named Denny, aka the Field House Nazi. Brian Hunter (eventual NCAA CHampion, thats right he was a hokei first) pretty muched pissed him off to no end, and now he hates all vaulters. So every other sport at this university gets dibs to the field hose over us. Our offical time is from like 7-9, but if football decides they need it, we are downright screwed.

Football team. well, they say it isnt that, but i dont believe a word. they say "you will tear up too much grass." right, because my old coach (age-wise), and 4 other guys are going to tear the hell out of the grass that we sit on. *sigh*

Here at uconn we have the same problem whether it be soccer or football, but when football practices inside due to rain we are unable, they just lock all the doors to the indoor track and do there thing while we sit there with our coaches telling us they cant do anything. Track gets no recognition over in connecticut, it suks so bad, we barely get any money, get the least amount of attention and get no suppliments or anything, now that our schools football team went D1 it is this schools goal to actually make it good, which takes money and time away from us, it suks oh well, we have more big east championships then them and we have more heart and we are better athletes, so screw them

We don't have that problem. For the ones that are, get one of you vaulters to study Law and negotiate.
If this fails, get them together for a meeting and MAKE THEM AN OFFER they can't refuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i go to a d3 school and some sports occasionally have the problem of football crowding them out. our biggest problem the past two years in the fall has been temporary bleachers for the chicago fire major league soccer team taking up all but two lanes of out outdoor track. they played a couple of seasons in our stadium while soldier field was rennovated. the way our fieldhouse since our indoor facilities arent the best(our indoor track is 12 laps a mile in lane one) sports are given times when they can use the gym. we do seem to get the preferred time durring track season. of course some sports have to work out at pretty weird times. right now we get pelted with vollyballs while we vault because we practice at the same time. the scariest practice ever was last year durring outdoors when the baseball team's field was flooded and they decided that they would practice on the infield of the football field. they were practicing fielding balls but were hitting them in the direction of our runway.

Skyin' Brian wrote:they were practicing fielding balls but were hitting them in the direction of our runway.

Better hope you have good baseball players then!

We had to duck for lacrosse balls coming our way back at Cortland State in the day!

VTechVaulter wrote:So with our outdoor track

The F#CKIN MARCHING BAD practices on our infield. THey play the stupidest stuff and we cant hear a word our coach is saying.

ohhh, my friend who's in the Drum and Bugle Corps got sooooooo pissed when I told him you said that...lol

everyone needs to jump at the famous "Bubble" at the Univ of South Carolina. in addition to the buzzing lights, we also get to hear the mellow thumps of thousands of tennis balls hitting the court, and fence as we run along side it toward the box. ask skycock or carolina21. they ll agree there isnt a worse facility in the United States.

My pole vaulters were supposed to vault in the fieldhouse this afternoon - but I just found out that we've been bumped by the football team. A little wind and snow drove them indoors! What wimps! What will they do when they have a game on Saturday and it's still windy and snowy!! Probably lose another game I guess.

AAARGH!