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Unread postby PVJunkie » Wed Nov 13, 2002 1:52 am

The soapbox is for the OTHER cheerleaders.........the ones who could tumble (not a gymnast) a little, had a big mouth, but couldnt do any other sport (either they were not good enough or were TOO good, the other way).

YOU GOTTA STAND FOR SOMTHING OR YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING!!

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Unread postby jmayesvaultmom » Wed Nov 13, 2002 6:12 am

There we totally agree :yes:
That's Jodie!!

A scripture that makes me think of all you girls and guys pole vaulting....

Habakkuk 3:19
The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights.

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Unread postby lonestar » Wed Nov 13, 2002 12:37 pm

Robert schmitt wrote:High School is so much fun to coach :mad: Last year I had this discussion with the head coach and distance coach at the school I coach at. Our best female vaulter had decided to run the 2mi b/c she wanted to do more for the team. After explaining what I just explained above to her. Essentially that by training for the two mi you will be really working against your best event. I get two phone calls from the head coach and distance coach. Telling me that I don't make decisions I'
m just the vault coach!!! We'll in the first place I never told her not to run cross country I just told her it is going to really effect her vaulting. esp since the two mi is usually when she would be vaulting at the higher cross bars.

I just needed to vent that out it's been brewing inside me for 9 months now.


Robert, that story is so incredibly deja vu for me it's scary! Back about 10 years ago when I was a senior in high school, my head coach wanted me to run xc b/c I was the 2nd best distance runner in the school, but I had decided to just concentrate on vaulting. My vault coach had given me "the talk" about the effects of distance running on vaulting, and that's why I didn't want to do xc. When I told my head coach I wasn't running xc, he didn't speak to me for the entire xc season until indoor track started. He also banned my vault coach from coming to the school and working with me for awhile - the ironic part is, my vault coach had gone through the same battle with my head coach about 8 years earlier when he, himself was a vaulter there! Long story short, I trained for the vault, pr'ed first meet, won district and regionals, and went to college and vaulted - never ran distance again and don't regret it!

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Unread postby Robert schmitt » Wed Nov 13, 2002 1:44 pm

That's just silly, It's a good thing we love to vault so much

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xc and vaulting

Unread postby DHSvaulter00 » Tue Nov 19, 2002 9:06 pm

I ran xc this year and my pr was 23:45. this was my first year running xc. and i this will be my first year vaulting. the reason i ran xc and am now vaulting is b/c i was a gymnast and have decent upper body strength and kind of know the technique. but i love xc!! :) i'm from ga.

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Re: xc and vaulting

Unread postby localrunner » Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:53 pm

Dude I am so happy that the xc season is done, bc I think it was way to long. I only wish I could have ended it better but 7th place at states isn't that bad(go seminole cc girls you rock). I am ready for track now and ready to do the mile and 4x800 and the 800 omg I am so not doing the 2 mile if my coach makes me I will be so mad bc I suck at anything over a mile...to bad I'm not doing polevaulting this year :(

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Unread postby wacky274 » Tue Nov 26, 2002 8:14 pm

not doing pole vaulting? sad..that sucks...how come?
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Muhammad Ali

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
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Unread postby localrunner » Thu Nov 28, 2002 11:22 am

Well my cc coach really needs me and wants me to run this year and last year I didn't run I just had fun polevaulting and the running event that I want to do is the same time as polevaulting and it would be really hard on me to try to do 2 events at once...so i am just going to stick with running this year and i bet the next 2 years too....man this sucks now that i think about it....so omg i bet i am not going to be able to polevault the rest of my high school days. :( but i love/hate cc for all you cc runners out there, you know what i mean :P

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Unread postby VaultFreak » Fri Nov 29, 2002 12:01 pm

You must really love XC, I could never give up vaulting.... :(
Pole Vaulters get high!

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Unread postby wacky274 » Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:14 pm

just think of it as XC is to him and vaulting is to you, and me, a lot of people on this board
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. - Muhammad Ali



Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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Unread postby PvaultinGirl » Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:27 pm

that's hard to do! not vaulting is so weird! i feel like i'm still just waiting for track to really start or something because it's not the same w/ out the vault. i wish that was true because it's really hard hearing everyone else talk about it and not being able to do it myself. it's like torture! i wish that i had never gotten into it because everyone else has something to do (like play softball or soccer) and so at least they still have something and right now, i don't feel like i have ne thing. :no:
POLE VAULTING....Fear is NOT and option!

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Unread postby localrunner » Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:35 pm

wacky274 wrote:just think of it as XC is to him and vaulting is to you, and me, a lot of people on this board

Him???
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