What's the overall best school to vault at?

[IBPVC]

With 4 girls over 13'5 this year I think the University of Washington can easily be considered the best women's vault school in the country!

Pat Licari has had amazing success developing the women on our team, as nobody came into college with a PR over 13 feet .

UW Women's PR's entering college:
Carly = no HS experience, just tried it out freshman year
Kate = 12 feet
Ashley = transfered with PR of 12'6"
Stevie = 3.95 = 12'11.5"

[titanvaulter21]

cal state fullerton..

great coach's

great school.

great team.

and of course

great vaulters..

and we have fun!

[CHC04Vault]

isn't cal fulerton the one that kicked onna ur runners and took her scholarship away because she was a stripper and the only reason y they found out was their baseball team went to a strip club and told the AD (kinda hypocritcal)???

[MightyMouse]

how bout U of GEORGIA??

My # 1 Choice
I just gata get the height...and get in...*sigh*

[Scott Go Pre]

how bout U of GEORGIA??

They tend to prefer imports! Fanni Juhasz, Theory Ellisdotier.

[Scott Go Pre]

Sorry if I spelled their names wrong.

[rainbowgirl28]

how bout U of GEORGIA??

They tend to prefer imports! Fanni Juhasz, Theory Ellisdotier.

Those are their only 2 pole vault imports though. Most of the vaulters on the team now are from GA, and they're all from the US.

[MightyMouse]

I know theres 1 from VA ( where i live) so theres still hope...

[polevaultdad]

Probably right about Washington. 4 girls at National Indoors. wonder if that has ever happened before. 4.10 was the cutof. My daughter was a Prov Qual. Maybe next year.

[polevaultdad]

Take a look at http://www.vaultworld.com/vaultngus/ and see the list by school and by conference. An indication of the committment to the sport, the chances of getting to vault and the type of team they might have down the road.

This year so far - Washington #1, Arkansas #2, San Diego St#3 if you count the ladies on the top of the list.

[ladyvolspvcoach]

An important factor is the amount of improvement from high school to Freshman, and then from year to year. The number of kids at anygiven school may not actually be a significant indicator of the calibre of the overall program. Although the school mentioned have excellent programs, but they also have really fine incoming vaulters to work with. I know in addition Coach Miller at Akron and Coach James at Georga always bring athletes along who don't start out as the top in the country in high school, but always find a way to show up!! And there are many others these are just some I have personal knowledge of.

[polevaultdad]

I agree with that. Improvement or lack of is a consideration. Facilities, and coaching both play into that. T

The desire of the athelete to train and improve is a big factor. It often takes a year or so for the high school athlete to adjust to college life, training demands and new coaching before they raise the bar.

Some coaches use indoor as a training period, limiting vaulters to shorter runs and building technique. Others have their vaulters running long and holding high from day one.

No wrong way, just variations that may make someone happy at a school and someone else not happy.