Texas Relays Boys A

[CowtownPV]

Any of these boys daddy's ever pole vault?

1 Antionio, Ruiz 12 Tomball Memo
2 Benavides, Paulo 12 El Paso Fran
3 Bray, Brandon 12 China Spring
4 Carter, Mikel 12 Shelbyville
5 Duplantis, Armand 09 Lafayette
6 Gill, Taylor 12 Clyde Eula
7 Gonzalez, Greyson 12 Bosqueville
8 Herrscher, Will 12 Rockwall-Hea
9 Jacob, Wooten 12 Tomball Memo
10 Littlefield, Luke 11 Central Texa
11 McWhorter, Zach 10 Har-Ber
12 Richards, Riley 10 China Spring
13 Scott, Blake 12 Aledo
14 Stoute, Hagen 12 Wall
15 Summers, Ashton 12 Katy Morton
16 Volz, Deakin 12 Bloomington

[Tory]

I assume the question is rhetorical? lol

[KirkB]

I assumed it was rhetorical too, but I wouldn't mind hearing about the exact relationships that some of these vaulters have with their relatives.

There's a lot of familiar last names listed!

For example, Riley Richards. I assume grandson of Bob, but son of who? Paul, Tom, Brandon or Bob Jr.?

Kirk

[KirkB]

It's a year old, but here's a background story on Bray and Richards, and their coaches/fathers:

http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/high_schools/central_texas_track_and_field/high-school-state-track-china-spring-s-bray-cracking-vault/article_1aab5be1-abef-5c75-b62e-d02a83a6e739.html

Kirk

[vaultmd]

Zach McWhorter's Dad, Rick, interviewed at UT-Houston Medical School when I was faculty and Mike Holloway was one of our students. During his interview day, he actually stopped by my office because he saw some pole vault crap on my door.

I see he went to UTSA instead.

[vaultmd]

Funny thing is that I had just returned from the National Masters Meet, which was at BYU (where Rick was a student at the time), where I had no-heighted.

[vaultmd]

Damn. I must be old, or something.

[polebender]

I can confirm that Riley Richards is indeed Brandon's son. That's my boy!! It is so great to see all of our sons competing and becoming lifelong friends just like all of us fathers did! Passing the torch to the next generation...