Modesto Results - Stuczynski 4.70, Lanaro 5.80

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                        California Invitational Relays                       
                            presented by Coca Cola                           
          Modesto Junior College   Modesto, California  - 5/10/2008           
 
Event 13  Women Pole Vault 13-05 Invitational
==========================================================================   
    Name                    Year Team                    Finals               
==========================================================================   
Finals                                                                       
  1 Jenn Stuczynski              adidas                   4.70m   15-05.00 1-0
     4.30 4.40 4.50 4.60 4.70 4.90                                           
        P    P    P    P    O  XXX                                           
  2 Mary Vincent                 Elite Athletes N         4.50m   14-09.00 3-3
     4.30 4.40 4.50 4.60                                                     
        O   XO  XXO  XXX                                                     
  3 Tracy Ohara                  Unattached               4.40m   14-05.25 1-0
     4.30 4.40 4.50                                                           
        O    O  XXX                                                           
  4 Becky Holliday               Unattached              J4.40m   14-05.25 1-1
     4.30 4.40 4.50                                                           
       XO    O  XXX                                                           
  5 Stacy Dragila                Nike                    J4.40m   14-05.25 1-2
     4.30 4.40 4.50                                                           
      XXO    O  XXX                                                           
  6 Jillian Schwartz             Nike                     4.30m   14-01.25 1-0
     4.30 4.40                                                               
        O  XXX                                                               
  7 Nikki McEwen                 Unattached              J4.30m   14-01.25 2-1
     4.30 4.40                                                               
       XO  XXX                                                               
 -- Erin Asay                    Sheffield Elite             NH               
     4.30                                                                     
      XXX                                                                     
 -- Andree Pickens               Elite Athletes N            NH               
     4.30                                                                     
      XXX                                                                     


                      California Invitational Relays                     
                          presented by Coca Cola                         
        Modesto Junior College   Modesto, California  - 5/10/2008         
 
Event 31  Men Pole Vault 16-00 Open
==========================================================================
    Name                    Year Team                    Finals           
==========================================================================
Finals                                                                   
  1 Justin Norberg               Unattached               5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        P    O                                                           
  1 Robert McClean               Unattached               5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        P   XO                                                           
  1 Yoo Kim                      Unattached               5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        P    O                                                           
  1 Dustin DeLeo                 Ucla                     5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        O   XO                                                           
  1 Paul Litchfield              Pocatello Track          5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        O    O                                                           
  1 Derek Mackel                 Athenian Athletics       5.25m   17-02.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        P   XO                                                           
  7 Johnny Quinn                 Ucla                     5.10m   16-08.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
      XXO  XXX                                                           
  7 Mark Johnson                 Sheffield Elite          5.10m   16-08.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        O  XXX                                                           
  7 Bobby Tally                  Ucla                     5.10m   16-08.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        O  XXX                                                           
  7 Jon Takahashi                Sheffield Elite          5.10m   16-08.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
       XO  XXX                                                           
  7 Mike Landers                 Unattached               5.10m   16-08.75
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        O  XXX                                                           
 -- Ryan Shuler                  California                  NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 
 -- Chris Bencomo                Ucla                        NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 
 -- Roy Phelps                   Fresno State                NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 
 -- Robison Pratt                Unattached                  NH           
     5.10 5.25                                                           
        P    P                                                           
 -- Dan Imlach                   Sacramento St.              NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 
 -- Zack Miller                  Ucla                        NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 
 -- Greg Woepse                  Ucla                        NH           
     5.10                                                                 
      XXX                                                                 


Event 14  Men Pole Vault 18-00 Invitational
==========================================================================   
    Name                    Year Team                    Finals               
==========================================================================   
Finals                                                                       
  1 Giovanni Lanaro              Elite Athletes N         5.80m   19-00.25 1-1
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60 5.70 5.80 5.90                                 
        P    P    O    P   XO    P    O  XXX                                 
  2 Jeff Hartwig                 Unattached               5.50m   18-00.50 1-0
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60                                                 
        P    P    O    O  XXX                                                 
  3 Derek Miles                  Nike                    J5.50m   18-00.50 2-1
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60                                                 
        P    P    P   XO  XXX                                                 
  4 Jeff Ryan                    Skip Stolley Group      J5.50m   18-00.50 3-2
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60                                                 
        P    P    O  XXO  XXX                                                 
  5 Tye Harvey                   Elite Athletes N         5.40m   17-08.50 1-1
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50                                                     
        O   XO    O  XXX                                                     
 -- Tim Mack                     Unattached                  NH               
     5.20 5.30 5.40 5.50                                                     
        P    P    P  XXX                                                     

[30yrs-coaching]

(check out Hartwig's quote of Stuczynski! pics also on website)

http://www.modbee.com/sports/story/295243.html

Everyone else was done. It was time for Jenn Stuczynski.

Stuczynski easily cleared a meet-record 15 feet, 5 inches on her first jump of the day in the women's pole vault Saturday at the 67th annual California Invitational Relays at Modesto Junior College.

Mary Vincent, the runner-up at 14-9, went out at 15-1. Stuczynski then missed three times at 16-¾, which would have broken her American record of 16-0.

"The first attempt was close," she said. "I just didn't get deep enough in the pad."

Jeff Hartwig, the men's American record holder, said he saw Stuczynski clear 16-1 "by 3 or 4 inches" in warmups.

"If she doesn't break the world record (16-5¼) very, very soon, I'll be surprised," Hartwig said.

Vaulters -- men and women -- often seem to grab the spotlight here.

Mexican Olympian Giovanni Lanaro enlivened the men's competition with a jump of 19-¼. He defeated a field that included Hartwig, 2004 Olympic champ Tim Mack and 2004 Olympian Derek Miles. Meet record-holder Toby Stevenson warmed up but withdrew because of a sore Achilles' tendon.

Also Saturday, before a crowd of about 3,000, Christian Cantwell won the men's shot put with an impressive 71-4¾ (he threw 70-8½, too). Stephanie Brown Trafton's 207-8 bested a women's discus field that included hometown hero Suzy Powell (third at 200-1). Lauryn Williams doubled in the women's 100 (11.18) and 200 (22.85). Unheralded Carlos Moore took the men's 100 in a wind-aided 9.97.

And Khadevis Robinson -- always Khadevis -- won the Modesto men's 800 for the sixth year in a row, clocking 1:47.32.

Stuczynski is a 26-year-old East Coaster who, along with Russians Yelena Isinbayeva and Svetlana Feofanova, are the only members of the women's 16-foot club.

On being the top vaulter in the U.S. she said: "We're going for the world now."

Asked how high she's been jumping in practice, she teased, "I'm not supposed to say that."

Stuczynski is sort of like the new Stacy Dragila, which might be a wee bit irritating to Dragila, who happened to be competing Saturday. It was Dragila's meet record that fell Saturday -- that 15-1 in 2000 tied what was her world record at the time.

Dragila is 37 now, frequently injured the past couple years. Whereas she once dominated her American peers like Stuczynski is now, she had to settle for 14-5¼ Saturday.

But don't count her out, she said, upbeat as usual.

"I'm fine, though it might not look like it today," Dragila said. "My speed and everything is there. It's been cruddy weather in Idaho, and I haven't been able to get to my full approach (she used a short approach Saturday).

Cruddy weather is in the eye of the beholder. It was a beautiful spring low-80s day in Modesto with the wind occasionally creeping over the limit for legal marks.

"It's hot out here," Stuczynski said. "When I jumped the other day, it was 49 (degrees, in Buffalo.) That's what I'm used to."

Lanaro is used to jumping 19 feet. He was over that height frequently last season and soared a personal best 19-1¼ this season at Mt. SAC.

After clearing his winning height on his first attempt Saturday, he missed three times at 19-4¼. That will take some getting used to.

"I was confident. I was feeling good going down the runway," he said. "I just couldn't get it. ... It's high."

Lanaro cramped up on his third try and had his leg wrapped afterward.

The rest of the vaulters struggled mightily. Hartwig, Miles and Jeff Ryan were 2-3-4, all at 18-½. Sonora product Tye Harvey had to settle for 17-8½, and Olympic champ Mack no-heighted.

Harvey, who just missed making the Olympic team in 2004, said, "I've been lost for a while this spring. I got it figured out today. So this next week of practice will be exciting."

Hartwig, 40, said he and other vaulters thought perhaps the pole vault standards were pushed back a bit by a full day of vaulting, because the vaulters weren't flying deep enough over the bar.

"It's my own fault for not checking that and not making adjustments," said Hartwig, a candidate to make his second Olympic team in what he said will be his final season.

Discus thrower Brown Trafton, also with her eyes on Beijing, was pleased that she launched Saturday's winning throw on her first attempt.

"I've been working on strategy," she said. "That is actually a really good strategy for the Olympics Games because you've got to have a really good first throw to make it to the finals."

World champion women's high hurdler Michelle Perry ran the 100 meters but pulled up halfway with what she thought was a cramp. Hurdler Jenny Adams, the meet record-holder, competed in the long jump instead and finished second to Grace Upshaw's 21-11¾.

[VaultNinja]

Justin, Yoo, Derek, and Paul jumped 5.40m not 5.25m
Those officials weren't the best.

[vaultmd]

For the record, I wasn't there, as I worked hard two weekends ago at our street vault in Stockton, was in Texas for a funeral last weekend and will be working hard next weekend at our street vault at the Scottish Games in Livermore.

I am surprised to hear the officiating wasn't the greatest. Usually Fred Arnold runs the big runway. Wasn't he there Saturday?

[VaultNinja]

Arnold wasn't there. Bunch of guys I didn't know. They kept fighting with each other. I'm also biased because one tried to DQ me for having tape on my hand, then told me I was lucky after they "allowed me" to continue competing. I didn't have an open wound, but I have had 2 surgeries, so i guess I have to start traveling with a doctors note, to put a thin strip of tape on my hand. Felt like I was in highschool again. I'm surprised they didn't send me to the principals office. But they way they were fighting with one another, I'm not surprised that the wrong results got posted.

Also I think that Bubba jumped 5.40m as well.

Side note; Jenn made 16' over a bar in warm ups. Should have made 4.90, easy. Too bad, but.....That girl isn't messing around. She is ready to jump 5m this year.

[bjvando]

That sounds pretty crappy about the officials..

Anyone have any video?