Word: vaulter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year's promising freshman class should be vastly improved from a year ago. Leading the way is vaulter Aaron Snead, who jumped 16 feet last year, a foot-and-a-half better than his previous best in high school. Runners Kobie Fuller, Osahon Omoregie, Nnamdi Okike and hurdler Shawn Parker all have the potential to improve their performance in their second season...
...Coke "Pole Vault" In the most evocative of Coke's fine "for the fans" Olympics campaigns, a vaulter runs, the crowd roars and the voice-over intones, "Some athletes are born in greatness, and some athletes are forced into greatness by 50,000 screaming maniacs who are not going to take no for an answer...
...inaugural track-and-field meet for Atlanta's Olympic stadium in May, two officials watch a Ukrainian pole vaulter prepare for his first jump. The vaulter has been rooted in hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into...
...jumped higher than any other human being (20 ft. 13/4 in.); a man who has dominated his field more ruthlessly and carved more world records for himself (35--18 indoors, 17 outdoors) than any other sportsman in history. But Bubka is more than simply the world's premier vaulter. He is an athlete who has so transcended his event that his most formidable competitors (some insist his only competitors) are himself and whatever law of physics ordains that a human being has no business leaping the height of a two-story town house...
Sure, there were people like Clayman, junior pole-vaulter Steve Brannon, senior high-jumper Terry Mann and senior javelin-thrower Eugene Chan. However, Harvard often found itself short of people, forcing team members to overload on events they weren't specialized...