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Unread postby CHC04Vault » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:11 pm

A year and 5 months of vaulting...that makes me wanna cry seeing i've been jumpin 4 years and she can almost beat me.
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Unread postby dafox » Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:45 pm

any footage of the jump surface yet?

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Unread postby breaker » Wed Mar 16, 2005 10:50 pm

anyone know how notre dame's vault program is? i've never heard.

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Unread postby izzystikchik » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:26 pm

well, its sure gonna sky rocket once she joins the team, she's gonna be my opponent next year ;) , i've got my luck cut out for me for the next 4 years of my life, she'll be in my Big East Conference if i go to where i think i may...

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Unread postby PVPirate26 » Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:28 pm

they must already have a pretty decent program if that's where she chose to go...and i'm sure it will only get better!

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:07 am

PVPirate26 wrote:they must already have a pretty decent program if that's where she chose to go...and i'm sure it will only get better!


I would imagine she chose Notre Dame for academic reasons more than track reasons.

A quick look at their roster showed one girl vaulter who appeared to be jumping a bit lower than her high school PR, and one who was jumping about 6 inches higher. They didn't have info for the third girl I saw.

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Unread postby PVJESS08 » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:08 am

Does anyone know what kind of scholarship she got?

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Unread postby rainbowgirl28 » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:12 am

PVJESS08 wrote:Does anyone know what kind of scholarship she got?


I can't imagine she got anything less than a full ride. They're hard to get for pole vaulters, but if you jump high enough to win NCAAs while you are still in high school, I'd say you have a decent chance at getting one!

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Unread postby achtungpv » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:13 am

Who knew Notre Dame had a track team?

Seriously though, they did have a guy jump 17' on 17' poles back around '98. He used to post on the vaultworld board back in the day and he couldn't figure out why he couldn't jump more than a foot over his grip.
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Unread postby vaulter870 » Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:41 am

haha 17' on 17' poles is insane but if he was jumping on 17' poles then he did have some potential
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Unread postby vaultmd » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:02 pm

rainbowgirl28 wrote:
PVPirate26 wrote:they must already have a pretty decent program if that's where she chose to go...and i'm sure it will only get better!


I would imagine she chose Notre Dame for academic reasons more than track reasons.

A quick look at their roster showed one girl vaulter who appeared to be jumping a bit lower than her high school PR, and one who was jumping about 6 inches higher. They didn't have info for the third girl I saw.


A Notre Dame woman vaulter has finished in the top two outdoors in the Big East Conference the last three or four years. Last year a Notre Dame woman won the conference, but has a bad non-vaulting related injury and is redshirting this year.

Notre Dame is a well-rounded school in many ways. One of the more notable is that football doesn't suck up all the resources like at most other D-I schools. The women track athletes get treated really well. For instance, when the above mentioned vaulter has been injured the school has made the same resources for rehabilitation available to her as they would have made for Brady Quinn, including a lot of one-on-one time from specialized staff members. At a lot of schools they give you ice and a list of exercises, which may or not be specific to the injury sustained, but no one spends the time to supervise and monitor progress, except maybe a student trainer if she is lucky.

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Unread postby wurster490 » Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:20 pm

Make that second best ever in the world by a girl under 17...
Ekateríni Stefanídi from Greece jumped 4.37 this year and she was only 14 when she did it.


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