The Mt. Pleasant Track and Field Club from Charleston, South Carolina will compete with us at this meet. Join us for a rare Saturday competition to jump new heights and create new friendships! Warm-ups for the first flight will begin at 8:30 am. Rolling schedule. Meet details will be provided after registration closes on Tuesday November 28. We look forward to a great day!
Wakefield High School sophomore and Pole Vault Carolina athlete Jack Tan is your 4A Indoor State Champion with a jump of 14′! Way to go, Jack!
Pole Vault Carolina senior Jonathan Horn cleared 16′ at The Pole Vault Carolina April Invitational landing a spot on the all-time list in North Carolina! A student at Burlington Christian Academy, Jon will compete for Duke University in the fall.
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,…
On Saturday April 16, our Pole Vault Carolina community came together for a purpose higher than the bar – to gather donations and raise money for refugee children in Ukraine. We opened the event with a video message from Steve Chappell of UCS Spirit and a letter from Ukrainian Olympian Yana Hladiychuk. The message to our athletes was that even the smallest kindness is better than indifference. We thank Steve and Debbie Chappell and Yana for setting us up for…
What is your potential?To find out, join us on Sundays at 3 pm for a Beginner’s Clinic!At Pole Vault Carolina, we offer instruction in the pole vault, high jump, and long jump, and teach athletes to surmount obstacles on the field and in life. Meet Alden. She started vaulting in the second semester of her 7th grade year. Covid hit, she kept training at home, and then she made the most of every practice last season. This year Alden walked…
Most of you are committed to pole vaulting. You attend practice 2-3 times per week to improve your technique and your jump. You expect to achieve great heights and results, yet most of you are NOT committed to becoming the best athlete that you can be. To reach your potential, you must become a great athlete by working out on the days that you are not pole vaulting. Elite athletes do not reach that level or stay there by not…
Athletes will learn the fundamentals of the pole vault in an encouraging environment! We start new athletes in the Beginner’s Clinics, and build their confidence through the practice of dynamic drills that are the foundation of the vault. They will complete jumps by the end of the session. Beginner’s Clinics are currently held on Sundays at 3 pm, and are 90 minutes in length. *Sessions are limited to 8 athletes. There is no pole sharing and masks are required.
For the foreseeable future, the club will operate on our regular schedule. We will be monitoring this daily. If circumstances warrant further action, we will take that action. Please make your decision to attend or not based on your own level of comfort. We are following the CDC guidelines to clean all equipment, including poles, mats, and apparatuses in between sessions. Everyone MUST wash their hands with soap and water when they come in and when they leave. We also…
This article was originally published by NC Milesplit on Feb. 3, 2020. When McKenna Brunick signed a National Letter of Intent to compete for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her community came out en force. In a jam-packed classroom at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh, filled with family, friends, teammates, and coaches, McKenna realized her dream of competing in the pole vault for a top school. In her two and a half years as a vaulter,…
