Average High School Boy/girl?

[pvdad81]

Go to Dyestat they hava a neat calculator to show what percentage you would rank nationally at. For instance, 13' is about 75%. So if you jumped in a meet with every male high school vauter in the nation and cleared 13', you would beat 75% of them. Here in Mississippi you would beat 99% of them but that is another topic.


http://www.dyestat.com/?pg=rankings_rate

[invert07]

you sure its not that you will get beat by 75% of them? i just see so many 14"6+ vaults from freshman year up where i live and i just cant think hoe many more of them are out there.... but about how theres nothing to do in texas the only thing people thing eat drink sleep about is football so thats why you have guys like me who always non stop talk about pole vaulting to keep it in the same convo as football...lol

[invert07]

that should be how** not hoe...just to make sure yall know...lol

[TheBigMastodon]

I live in central NY and I would say its around 10 feet. There isnt much vaulting in my area.

[robillard]

ya i live in florida and ive won big meets with 10' jumps. i also didnt make it to states with a 12' jump, which wouldve won any other region in my class. The best vaulter in our state last year went 15'3" give or take and the next was in the 14s. We only had a few over 13 a handful over 12 and the rest were around 10-11. In my class 12' took 5th or 6th in state.
Id have to say the average around here from wat i saw last year was around 10-11'.

[sooch90]

Also, there are alot of kids who pole vault, but don't take it seriously so never really get big heights. So these kids would probably not submit their heights at dyestat

[adamstarr]

so, according to dyestat, 9 feet 3 inches is average height?

[THSVaulter]

in texas alone we had over 4 16' vaulters just within Region III

[pvdad81]

According to milesplit 2006 outdoor season:

Girls
3 over 13'
33 over 12'
107 over 11'

Boys
2 over 17'
16 over 16'
53 over 15'
167 over 14'
377 over 13'
468 over 12'

[hallvaulter]

To answer this you need to better define average. IMO, nowadays, and average height for guys is around 15' or 15'6'', and an average of all highschoolers is probably closer to the high 12 or low 13 foot range.

My first thought of average is:
Below Average- 14 or lower
Average- 15 or 15'6''
Above Average- 16 or 5 meters
Well Above Average- 17 +

I just think that most high schooler through 4 years of training with a coach can attain the 15 foot mark. And I would say most is average.

[IndyCoach]

Okay, I think we are getting away from teh real question. It wasn't what is the average top valiber vaulters, but what would make you average throught your state. I know on my team we actually have to have cuts. Right now we are in the 5th week of our actual season and at the end of march I will be making cuts (we have 19 people trying to vault 11 boys and 8 girls) We haev a cut height. It is 7'6" for girls and 9'6" for boys. I would say an average boy would be around 12-12'6 and girl would be from 8'-10'. My numbers come from what normally scores in a duel meet. Our #3 boy is traditionall a 13 foot vaulter at the end of the year and our number 3 girl is about a 9 foot vaulter.

[pvdad81]

I think your concept of "average" is really based on 2 things, location and school size. If you are from a big school in Texas, your "average" is much higher than a small school in Mississippi. Only 53 kids jumped over 15' last year in the whole country but, that may be average in a 6-A school in Texas. At the other extreme Mississippi has never produced a 15' vaulter. Last year 10"6" went to state and 13' won. So our idea of average is much lower. If you add in all the pole vaulters from all the schools in all the states, you get an average somewhere in the middle.