A Maryland-based concept that trains area youngsters in the sport of pole vaulting has moved to an expanded location within the Sulphur Spring Business Park in Halethorpe. Founder and owner Jacob ...

A portable runway set in the sand, live music drifting off the water, and Olympic-caliber athletes soaring against a ...

Pole vault is a track and field event in which athletes attempt to clear a horizontal bar by sprinting down a runway and using a pole to catapult themselves into the air. The athlete who clears the ...

She dreams of flying high in the maroon and white uniform of Texas A&M. Of competing in pole vault events held on city streets. Of wearing the red and white of her birth nation in an Olympics. The ...

On a quiet street in the Switzerland neighborhood, people may notice a red, grey, and navy blue flag outside a home, which will lead them to the “FL Pole Vault Factory,” a business dedicated to ...

Graduate student pole vaulter Alli Lofquist stood at the end of the runway, pole in hand, staring down the opening bar set at 3.52 meters — a height she cleared countless times before during her ...

As you head east on Grant Road near Mountain Avenue on Monday and Thursday evenings, you’ll spot something soaring through the air in the backyard of a midtown home. While zipping down the road, it ...

I go to bed at the same time, around 11 p.m. every single night and wake up at 8 a.m. just to keep the same sleep routine, so my body doesn’t get out of order. Then, I usually do my homework first and ...

It’s an opportunity of a lifetime to be coached by an Olympic gold medalist. For Hudson’s Natalie Murray, who in May placed second in the pole vault at the Class 4A state track and field meet, that ...