pole vault

Back in 8th grade, Carter started talking about pole vault.  He has a friend who has been doing it for a few years outside of school.  So, when Carter joined the high school track team, he wanted to try pole vault.  Little did we realize what was involved.  The high school coaches were not equipped to teach this difficult event.  So besides going to track practice every day after school for the 800 and high jump; twice a week Carter went to pole vault practice, along with a hand full of kids in town, with his coach, Tim Mack.  Does he sound familiar?  He might if you watched the Summer Olympics in Athens where he won gold in the pole vault.

It was a great freshman year on the track team for Carter.  We enjoyed watching him learn and improve in pole vault along with the high jump  and the 800m.  He even did the 300 hurdles a few times. He scored for his team in high jump and pole vault which led to him lettering in track.  We were excited for Carter for accomplishing this his freshman year.  He is such a great athlete who works hard to improve.  He is so good at setting goals for himself.  I'm excited to see what the next three years hold in store for him.