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I went into nationals ranked 21st out of 24 with a best of 11' 3".
And I finished yesterday placing 10th and vaulting 11' 9"!!!
*continues to run around shrieking with glee*
It was awesome! I came in at the opening height (11' 3"). It took me until my third attempt at it to clear it, and man, I cleared it. Same with the next height 11' 9": I cleared it on my first attempt by a ton!
A giant (somewhat sarcastic and highly annoyed) thank you to Concordia for giving us the wrong pole, which made me quite peeved and probably ended up helping me a bit to finally get some great jumps on that 13' pole because I didn't have any other poles with me that would work. That 13' pole is definitely what I needed yesterday as well as for future vaults.
In regards to the title...the next height was 12' 3", which I was sooooo close to making. I was over it, but the last part of the vault where you push off from the pole over the bar I wasn't quite finishing, so I was hitting it on the way down, which I think may have been partially due to a lack of consistent practice doing that and being tired since it was ridiculously warm that afternoon. Our coaches and I were looking at the results, and had I made 12' 3", I probably would have placed in the top six and made All-American status, but the fact that I went from being ranked from 21st to 10th and PRed at nationals is amazing enough to me. It was a great first nationals experience!
Some pics that our sports information guy took. I don't think my teammates got any of me....but apparently there is video somewhere of the majority of the jumps, but the link is being wonky:
Overall though, this season was....amazing. I'm so fired up for the next two years and hopefully indoor and outdoor nationals now. Doing so well in the 100 and 200 this year and PRing by so much in those two alone was awesome. Being put on the 4x1 relay was great as well, but pole vault this year. Wow. I improved my personal best by at least 20 inches from last year to this year. That's pretty darn neat by itself! I'll be happily skipping around for the rest of the week. I don't think I could have done it without people like my teammates, friends, and our coaches who pushed so many of us to do the best we could do especially Tim, our vault coach and our main coaches, Ben and Jack, who definitely took a chance on even sending me here on a provisional mark. And thanks to you all for listening to my random track ramblings. I know that talking about track and vault can be odd enough as it is, but thanks so much for the support! It was greatly appreciated.
(and 67 days until BrickFair!!!!)
Hahahahahaha a teammate is already asking me when I'll get pics up from nationals and they aren't even over yet. Not like I have well over a thousand pictures to edit, and we've still got all of finals tomorrow to watch or anything.
Omg, you guys, B6 GRADUATED. From COLLEGE. That's fancy and cool. Good job, man.
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