5th Annual Club Altius Season's Greeter - 12/19 Texas

[Bubba PV]

5th Annual Club Altius Season's Greeter
$30 - Entry
$20 - Raffle tickets for a pole series
$25 - Photo CD onsite of your jumps
Enjoying the pole vault community with Becca as Master of Ceremonies, Announcer & Reporter - PRICELESS!!

Great to see you Becca and thanks for everything Van and family/staff. AWESOME experience once again. Superb management and officiating crews!! See you in Reno!! Bubba

[rainbowgirl28]

Thanks Bubba


Novice Girls
All athletes were competing unattached or for clubs, school names are given for reference only
1. Hillary Coy 9'0 (PNG HS, SO)
2. Kelsee Ferguson 9'0 (Holland HS, SO)
3. (tie) Nicole Summersett 8'6 (Hill Country, 7th)
3. (tie) Kara Zuspan 8'6 (McCullough, 8th)
5. (tie) Maggie Dooley 8'6 (Highland Park, FR)
5. (tie) Madeline Telford 8'6 (Central JH, 7th)
7. Casey Clark 8'0 (Mansfield HS, FR)
8. Lauren Null 7'6 (NW, SR)
9. Megan Arnold 7'6 (Kiefer Crossing MS, 8th)
10. Callie Pearson 7'6 (Smithfield MS)
11. Julia Allen 7'0 (Western, 8th)
12. Saige Spiva 7'0 (Bailey JH, 8th)
13. Oakley Weaks 7'0 (Western, 7th)
14. Heather Patterson 6'6 (NW, JR)
15. Elizabeth Williams 6'0 (Summer Creek, 7th)
-- Kristin Mackay NH
-- Christa Long NH
-- Haley Gates NH

[rainbowgirl28]

High School Elite Boys
All athletes were competing unattached or for clubs, school names are given for reference only
1. Mark Thomas 16'6 (Marina HS, SR)
2. Regan Gilbert 15'0 (Harker Heights, JR)
3. Joseph Beck 14'0 (North City HS, SO)
4. (tie) Jeremy Swaim 14'0 (Aubrey HS, SR)
4. (tie) Jonathan Johnson 14'0 (Hays HS, SR)
6. John Cody Feazell 13'6 (Mansfield HS, JR)
7. Seth Arnold 13'6 (Newcaney HS, SR)

[BUPV]

okay three things...

1. Congrats to both Mark and Lauren! Both great jumps for it being this early. Ohh and my boy rocky for taking nearly 8 years or so off then coming out an jumping 5.20m.

2. Becca... why did it say my other pvpower name was inactive? just wondering.. (this is joseph by the way)

3. thank you Paul, "Van the man" and Becca for everything this meet was a blast and to whoever showed up and decided to cheer everyone on... ohh and thanks hal for helping me out man!

[Catapole]

What a great event and facility...I sure wish we had something like this when I was in college! It was great to actually jump again and it makes me sort of want to train a little.....but then again the soreness I am feeling today makes me think twice about it! I think after jumping Sat. I actually realized I AM 43 years old after all. Thanks to everybody for all the uplifting words and cheers and making me feel ok jumping with the college kids......wish I could have done better.....

Thanks again for letting me particpate....

Brian Clark

[rainbowgirl28]

Brian you did AWESOME

[Bubba PV]

Congrats and welcome Brian. Sorry I missed you. I had to get back to Houston early for a family health issue.

John Seto at Masters Rankings corrected your metric to reflect 14' 6" which is 4.42m. I think it had been submitted as 4.46m which is 14' 8".

GREAT job and hope to see you in Belton on 1/2. Bubba

http://www.mastersrankings.com/rankings ... son=Indoor

[Bubba PV]

For those that don't know, Brian Clark is the son of 1960 Olympian Dave Clark. I told him (Brian) by email today that I vaulted in his backyard with his dad coaching me about the time he was born when I went to Dallas for the Texas Junior Olympics. Small world. Bubba

[Bubba PV]

Here's a photo of Brian's dad from Life magazine. Bubba

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1

[Catapole]

That is one thing I ALWAYS remember about my dad....he was always offering help to vaulters...either coaching in person, on the phone or selling them poles. We would have at least 20 vaulters show up at our house every Sunday from around the country. When I turned 40 I ask him how it was that my brothers and I jumped on fiberglass and carbon poles, ran off tarten runways and landed in soft big foam pits but yet we have bad shoulders, bad backs and have trouble getting out of bed every morning and yet he jumped on big metal poles, ran on asphalt and cinder runways and landed in SAWDUST and yet he can still run marathons and has no trouble at all.....he said to me the answer is easy....I leaned and listened in to hear this medical explanation.....his response was "I am a better athlete than you"....

[VaultNinja]

That is one thing I ALWAYS remember about my dad....he was always offering help to vaulters...either coaching in person, on the phone or selling them poles. We would have at least 20 vaulters show up at our house every Sunday from around the country. When I turned 40 I ask him how it was that my brothers and I jumped on fiberglass and carbon poles, ran off tarten runways and landed in soft big foam pits but yet we have bad shoulders, bad backs and have trouble getting out of bed every morning and yet he jumped on big metal poles, ran on asphalt and cinder runways and landed in SAWDUST and yet he can still run marathons and has no trouble at all.....he said to me the answer is easy....I leaned and listened in to hear this medical explanation.....his response was "I am a better athlete than you"....

Haha! That's awesome!

[invert07]

so ive been looking around and i cant seem to find any photos from the meet. i heard they were going to be posted on juskophotography.com but nothing is up yet does anyone know of anyone with photos of the open group?