Sage Thames

[VTechVaulter]

Track shark has sage listed as a Freshman, but he graduted with me back in 2001. Did he get a medical redshirt along with a regular redshirt, cuz otherwise he should be a soph or junior even. Just curious?

[uconnvaulta]

What up Brian this is jake, what year are you and how did you plan your red shirting cus i think im gonna want to in the next seasons coming up i dont know yet though i need to talk it over with my coach.

[VTechVaulter]

well, after kevin got killed my freshman year, i wasn't really mentally there, so we took off outdoors to let me get myself put back together. And then we decided that since this is an olympic year, we would aim completely for july. Thats why i have no real marks until this past weekend, we are just moving to long run. And i ran out of sticks this past weekend, so we ordered a 16'5 200 and a 16'5 205. Even though 5.50 still seems a little out of reach, im goin for it all out. So the redshirting indoors just was used to keep me fresh for when it matters. And then i cracked my femur indoors, so it worked out pretty good.

[uconnvaulta]

i got ya yeah indoors really ran me down, im startin to get my second wind now though, i mean last weekend suked but my body is recooperating and im startin to get back on the 16s which is nice so these next meets will be nice.

[OAKPV2004]

Im probably wrong,but my observation has been that this is Sage's first outdoors season in college and his second indoors. His first year in college he was at Texas and competed a few times, if not just once indoors and was injured (medical redshirt), then he transferred to Texas tech, which requires a year of not competing at all because it is Division 1, so really he only redshirtted one yearand it was because of injury, and i think he was injured during the other year too, but im not 100% sure. But it does sound correct, that he is a FR outdoors.

[VTechVaulter]

but if he transferred, he loses that year. Unless both coaches signed a release, in which case he should still be at least a redshirt soph. but im prolly wrong

[OAKPV2004]

Well. i dont know for sure, just speculation. I know of another vaulter from the school that im heading to next year that is from the same year, graduated 2001, and is going to have 2 and half years left to compete after this year.

[thornhillj]

he didnt have to sit out last year. he just took a regular redshirt to rehab his shoulder. he did use one indoor his freshman year, but got a medical that outdoor.....so he is a freshman outdoor

[vaulterpunk]

man vtechvaulter your grip is lookin pretty wide. does it seem wide to you or have you just always jumped like that. i only ask because my brother (Paul Lichfield) used to grip real wide like that and now he is trying to narrow it a bit.

[rainbowgirl28]

Heck I graduated high school in 2000, but this is my first year competing collegiately, so they call me a freshman. Really I would be a sophomore though, because if I only go to school in the spring I have 2 more seasons after this year (God bless the NAIA).

Academically I am a senior. Next spring I'll be a super senior. The year after that... a super duper senior?

[VTechVaulter]

yeah. my grip is a bit wide. we are gonna try and narrow it by about 2 inches come summer. This past year ive raised by grip about 8 inches and somewhere in there the grip got wide. But everything is clicking really good right now, so were gonna wait til after the championship season to readjust.

i am also 6'4, so i dont think its absurdly wide, but still to big.

[Skyin' Brian]

isnt there some limit to the time frame where eligibility gets used up. if you graduate hs in 2001 and enroll in college in the fall, then i believe that you have 10 semesters to use up your eligibility that start once you start school. that would mean that if even though you are a "freshman" outdoors since you already missed 2 years you could only compete for 3 years so when your eligibility expires you would be a 5th year junior and never have a "senior" season outdoors.
of course i'm not exactly sure what the rules are and people can always petition the ncaa for anything it seems