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SUMMER SEASON MEET SCHEDULE!

5/13 NCHSAA Regionals 5/14 NCHSAA Regionals 5/20 NCHSAA State Championships and NCISAA State Championships 5/21 NCHSAA State Championships and NCISAA State Championships 5/27 Pole Vault Carolina Invitational, Durham 6/4 Body Armour State Games, Durham 6/10 Pole Vault Carolina Invitational, Durham 6/17-19 Adidas Nationals, Greensboro  6/24 The Pole Vault Carolina Summer Invitational, Durham 6/30-7/3 AAU JO Regionals, Charlotte 7/2 National Championships Washington, DC 7/8 The Pole Vault Carolina Stars and Stripes Invitational, Durham 7/12-14 The Pole Vault Carolina ULTIMATE Summer Camp,…

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Coach Jim Bemiller

Olympic Medal Coach Jim Bemiller!

Pole Vault Carolina is excited to announce a Pole Vault Clinic with 2 Time Olympic Medal Coach Jim Bemiller on Saturday June 8, 2019, from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm! A meet, The Pole Vault Carolina Jim Bemiller Invitational will immediately follow. Spend the day with an Olympic coach and improve your vault! Early Bird Pricing is $85 through April 18, 2019. The price will increase to $100 on April 19, 2019. This clinic will take place at Pole Vault Carolina in…

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Group photo taken in 2017

Pole Vault Carolina is Enhancing Pole Vaulting in North Carolina!

by Jason Creasy, MileSplitNC Jan. 11, 2017 This season is the second year that competitions at Pole Vault Carolina (located in Durham, North Carolina) can qualify you for the NCHSAA State Championships, and many vaulters in North Carolina are taking advantage of that, and the excellent training facilities that Pole Vault Carolina has to offer. Aside from offering many Pole Vault meets throughout the season, Coach Jose San Miguel offers training clinics ranging from beginner’s clinics, to major clinics that…

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Usain Bolt

Running Cross Country Does Not Benefit Pole Vaulters

Interesting article on why Usain Bolt, the Jamaican sprinter who is the fastest person ever timed,  never runs a mile. There are significant differences in sprint running and distance running that require two different methods of training. Short distance runs focus on bursts and quickness out of the gate; longer distances require more patience and focus on controlling speed and energy over a longer period of time. The top pole vaulters, be they in high school, college, or professional,  DO…

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Carter Mathis

Pole Vault Carolina Seniors: Carter Mathis

For the past 3 years, it has been our privilege to coach recent Cary Academy graduate, Carter Mathis. Extremely athletic, Carter had already met with success in wrestling, basketball, and soccer before attempting track and field as a high school freshman. Carter’s overall challenge was to master pole vault technique and to trust himself.  He persevered through the ups and downs of a vaulter’s career, and this past season qualified for New Balance Nationals. Carter competed in New York in…

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Diamara Planell, The Pride of Puerto Rico

Published in Vaulter magazine, June 1, 2016 by Adele Correale San Miguel When Diamara Planell Cruz vaulted the Olympic A standard on April 16, 2016, a small commonwealth in the Caribbean rejoiced. After clearing 4.5 meters at the Mt. Sac Relays in California, Diamara (dee-ah-mar-a) became the 18th athlete to join the delegation from her native Puerto Rico, and the first woman to compete in the pole vault for the island in the Olympic Games. A 4-time All American, Diamara will graduate…

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The Quest of April Steiner Bennett

by Adele Correale San Miguel Published in Vaulter Magazine, April 1, 2016 “Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams die,life is a broken-winged birdthat cannot fly.”Langston Hughes In the summer of 1992, April Steiner Bennett was a pony-tailed 12 year-old, sitting on a couch in her family’s middle class home in Mesa, AZ, when the Olympic spark kindled the flame that became her life’s work. Carl Lewis, then 31, was leaping into gold medal position with an 8.68 meter long jump…

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A Pole Vault Carolina Guarantee

Do you really want it?  For Outdoor Season 2016, we offer the following: Any athletes who train at Pole Vault Carolina 3 days a week for the next 90 days, are guaranteed to: Reach the NCHSAA regional qualifier or Reach the NCISAA state championships or If they have already met the qualifying mark, jump 1 foot higher We are so confident in our systematic trainingapproach and our ability to develop young vaulters, that if the athlete does not improve to…

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CONTACT US

Phone: (919) 523-8333
Email: jose@polevaultcarolina.com

OUR LOCATION

2415 Presidential Drive, Suite 114
Durham, NC 27703