nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

[gh]

from the usatf site

<<A promising new talent emerged in the women's pole vault as Jennifer Stuczynski, from tiny Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y., won the competition with a height of 4.35m/14-3.25. The 5-11 former basketball player took up the vault only eight months ago and is a sometime training partner of national high school record holder Mary Saxer.>>

[MJD]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

The 5-11 former
>basketball player

Not a bad one by the looks of it:

"Wright also is on pace to break Stuczynski's records for average in a season (24.3) and points (802)."


http://www.democratandchronicle.com/app ... 007/SPORTS

[tafnut]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

OK, that coach up there is starting to creep me out. He gets rookies over 13 and 14' like there's no tomorrow. I always suspected something in the water in upstate NY/ Isn't that where Joseph Smith found the tablets for the Mormon church? I suspect alien abductions.

[paulthefan]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

Exactly.. I was thinking the same thing...

>OK, that coach up there is starting to creep me out. He gets rookies over 13
>and 14' like there's no tomorrow. I always suspected something in the water in
>upstate NY/ Isn't that where Joseph Smith found the tablets for the Mormon
>church? I suspect alien abductions.

[tracklete16]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

You know what's funny? My high school coach told me that I couldn't pole vault because I'm too tall!! You know how tall I am, 5'10... I think I'm going to take up pole vault!!!

[tafnut]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

>You know what's funny? My high school coach told me that I couldn't pole vault>because I'm too tall!! You know how tall I am, 5'10... I think I'm going to>take up pole vault!<<

Joe Dial proved that little guys can jump high, but generally speaking, the taller the better.

[polevaultpower]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

>OK, that coach up there is starting to creep me out. He gets rookies over 13
>and 14' like there's no tomorrow.


He's doing something few other pole vault coaches are successful at... he is getting really really GOOD athletes to focus on pole vault.

[tafnut]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

>>he is getting really really GOOD>athletes to focus on pole vault.<<

well that's just flat out cheating!

[tracklete16]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

she just won the US indoor championships as well.

[tafnut]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

>she just won the US indoor championships as well.<

as well as what? First that I've heard of her.

[tracklete16]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

If you read the beginning of the thread it was about how after only 8 months of training she won some competition... So that's why i said as well.

[Jon]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

>If you read the beginning of the thread it was about how after only 8 months of
>training she won some competition... So that's why i said as well.




And likewise if you read the beginning of this thread (or just the title itself) you'll see that you're talking about the exact same competition. "Nationals" = "US Indoor Champs"

[Jacksf]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

Sounds like she is a great talent.
Makes you wonder though about the talent level of the other US vaulters who've been at it for years.

[spy]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

When she gets up to about the 4.50 range, we will have need for close auditing of results, what with a Mary Sauer and a Mary Saxer in the same event and at similar levels.

[tafnut]

Re: nationals winner 8 months after taking up the sport?

I'm guessing that will not be a problem with Jennifer Stuczynski?