Tx Relays Results

[achtungpv]

The results on the Texas website are wrong. Below are the real final results. Buller looked good clearing 5.60 easily. Flagged out at the bar at 5.70 on every jump. Eshbach looks ready to contend for 19 feet. All 3 of his clearances would have been excellent attempts at 18'8"+. Ran through once and bailed twice at 18'8". The only thing, as usual, keeping Eshbach from jumping really high is his brain. Harvey smoked 18' by a foot on a flaming ESSX carbon. Ran out of gas a bit at 18'4". Jim Davis looked a bit inconsistent at takeoff, but definitely can jump 18'8" and maybe higher this year. Kim made 18' easily enough but got crammed at 18'4 and went mental. Nearly made his 2nd but the standards were too deep. Hanna looks fit for 18'4" or so right now. His last 3 steps were bad...looked tired. Skipper was a bit mental at the beginning. Only took off once in warmup. I heard him tell his coach that he was exhausted from the heat and that was when the bar was only at 17'4". He'd better come to Austin a week early for NCAAs to aclimate. It'll be 20 degrees warmer and really humid in June. Most looked good. Jumped from 8 lefts for the first time this year. Flagged out at 18' and still put 8" on it to no avail.

The rest:
Glenn got a good call at 16'10". He hit the bar a bit on the back side and it didn't fall until the he was in the pit. It definitely was a miss, but the official kind of hesitated to call it. I yelled "Give it to him!" and the official threw up the white flag. The Akron coach got pissed at that, but as an official I think you should err on the side of the athlete. The sport is about them and a clearance at 5.15 ain't gonna make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Glenn did have a good attempt at 5.30 on his 3rd. Russell is really good on the runway, he seemed a bit mental yesterday though. When he was on though, he definitely looked like a mid-18' vaulter. Ryland looked really, really good on the runway but tookoff way under at 11' each time and never had a shot at his opener. Hunter took off way under 3 times and landed on the standard pad once.

1 Russ Buller Asics 5.60mR 18-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60 5.70
P P P P P O XX
2 Eric Eshbach SR Nebraska 5.60mR 18-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60 5.70
P P P XO O XO XXX
3 Tye Harvey New Balance 5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P O XXO XO O XX
4 Jim Davis Unattached 5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P P XO P O XXX
5 Yoo Kim JR UCLA 5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P O O O XXO XXX
6 Kurt Hanna Olympic Training X5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P XO XO XXX
6 Tommy Skipper FR Oregon 5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P XO XO XXX
8 Bobby Most SO Texas Tech J5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P XXO XO XO XXX
9 Robison Pratt SO BYU 5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P P XO XXX
10 Pat Luke SR UCLA J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P O XXO XXX
11 Daniel Trosclair SR LSU J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P XO XXO XXX
12 Trent Powell JR BYU J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P XO XXO XXX
13 Brandon Glenn FR Arizona State 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
O XO XXX
13 Austin Landreth JR Oklahoma 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
P XO XXX
15 Jarno Kivioja FR Northern Iowa 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XO XO XXX
16 Paul Condron SR Florida 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XO XO XXX
17 Sage Thames SO Texas Tech J5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
P XXO XXX
18 John Russel SO Akron J5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
P XXO XXX
19 Chip Heuser FR Florida 5.00mR 16-04.75
5.00 5.15
XO XXX
20 Justin Sutton JR Texas A&M J5.00mR 16-04.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XXO P XXX

-- Daniel Ryland Earl Bell Traini NH
5.00 5.15 5.30
P P XXX
-- Bryan Hunter Motorolla NH
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P P P XXX
-- Jared Thornhill JR Texas Tech NH
5.00 5.15
P XXX
-- Brad Teeple SR Nebraska NH
5.00
XXX
-- Branden Bennett SR New Mexico NH
5.00
XXX
-- Kevin Opalka SR Arizona DNS

[CowtownPV]

They just listed the non college guys at the bottom of the results on the Texassports web page.

[VTechVaulter]

anyone else notice that brIan hunter hasn't made a bar yet. come on b, open at somethin reasonable please

[achtungpv]

anyone else notice that brIan hunter hasn't made a bar yet. come on b, open at somethin reasonable please

He doesn't warmup either. He didn't take a run through until his opening bar. At least he didn't open at or above his PR, which he's done in the past.

[achtungpv]

They just listed the non college guys at the bottom of the results on the Texassports web page.

They also had Eshbach as finishing in 13th place for some reason.

[VTechVaulter]

anyone else notice that brIan hunter hasn't made a bar yet. come on b, open at somethin reasonable please

He doesn't warmup either. He didn't take a run through until his opening bar. At least he didn't open at or above his PR, which he's done in the past.

yeah, he gave our coach fits here. His first ever 18 foot vault he opened at it. the problem is it worked for him on a couple occasions. You would think hed learn after all his best meets hes opened low.

18'8 at penn - came in 17'4
18'8 at ncaa's - came in at 17'10
18'6 at penn - came in 17'4

seems to be a trend. hmmm. and hes a chemical engineer. youd think hed use that brain

[wacky274]

Well, I must say, about the bar falling, i was by far as surprised as anyone else that they were going to give it to me. I think it was a combination of things, because, for those of you who didnt get to see, i broke what was at the time,my biggest pole i had ever jumped on. (very new feeling by the way). Well, i had broken it at my second attempt at 515, and didnt have any other option but to go up a pole and take it....Taped my next pole, jumped, had enough hip height, just knicked it with my rib on the back side....got down, thought i was done, and then i get told they counted it as a make so, i wasnt going to argue....and like ashcraft said, 515 isnt going to effect anything anyway.....anyway, my original point, i think the official might have kind felt sorry for some reason or other....but either way, texas relays is an amazing meet, and it was some of the most fun i've had jumping in a long while

[swtvault]

I heard Tye was only running 12 strides! He looked big over 5.60 on the video ! If that is the case, I think we can expect to see Tito challenging some big heights again.

[achtungpv]

I heard Tye was only running 12 strides! He looked big over 5.60 on the video ! If that is the case, I think we can expect to see Tito challenging some big heights again.

Tye did look sharp. Great, great takeoff. It was a short approach...12 sounds about right. You could really see his "eliteness" compared to the the rest of the field. You wanna jump 19'4"+, take off like Tye. That's the difference.

The closest anyone approached to having as good a takeoff was Skipper. He is one strong youngster. He was taking off under, but he somehow was able to slam his hands forward and open up the pole anyway. It'll be scary to watch when he actually takes off where he's suppose to.

[PVJunkie]

Hunter did not even walk onto the track til the bar was at 17'4"...........

[CowtownPV]

A & B Sections


Men Pole Vault Section A Univ/Coll
==========================================================================
World: W 6.14m 1994 Sergey Bubka, UKR
American: A 6.03m 2000 Jeff Hartwig, Nike
Collegiate: C 5.98m 1996 Lawrence Johnson, Tennessee
Myers Std: S 5.80m 1999 Jacob Davis, Texas
Meet: M 5.90m 1998 Jacob Davis, Texas
NCAA Regl: R 5.00m
Name Year School Finals
==========================================================================
1 Eric Eshbach SR Nebraska 5.60mR 18-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60 5.70
P P P XO O XO XX
2 Yoo Kim JR UCLA J5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P O O O XXO XXX
3 John Russel SO Akron J5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P XXO XO XO XXX
3 Bobby Most SO Texas Tech J5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P XXO XO XO XXX
3 Tommy Skipper FR Oregon J5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P XO XO XXX
6 Trent Powell JR BYU J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P XO XXO XXX
6 Pat Luke SR UCLA J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P O XXO XXX
6 Daniel Trosclair SR LSU J5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P XO XXO XXX
6 Robison Pratt SO BYU 5.30mR 17-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P P XO XXX
10 Paul Condron SR Florida 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XO XO XXX
10 Jarno Kivioja FR Northern Iowa 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XO XO XXX
10 Brandon Glenn FR Arizona State 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
O XO XXX
10 Sage Thames SO Texas Tech 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
P XXO XXX
10 Austin Landreth JR Oklahoma 5.15mR 16-10.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
P XO XXX
15 Justin Sutton JR Texas A&M J5.00mR 16-04.75
5.00 5.15 5.30
XXO P XXX
15 Chip Heuser FR Florida 5.00mR 16-04.75
5.00 5.15
XO XXX
-- Kurt Hanna Olympic Training XJ5.40mR 17-08.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P XO XO XXX
-- Tye Harvey New Balance XJ5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P O XXO XO O XX
-- Jim Davis Unattached XJ5.50mR 18-00.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60
P P XO P O XXX
-- Russ Buller Asics XJ5.60mR 18-04.50
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50 5.60 5.70
P P P P P O XX
-- Jared Thornhill JR Texas Tech NH
5.00 5.15
P XXX
-- Bryan Hunter Motorolla XNH
5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40 5.50
P P P P XXX
-- Brad Teeple SR Nebraska NH
5.00
XXX
-- Daniel Ryland Earl Bell Traini XNH
5.00 5.15 5.30
P P XXX
-- Branden Bennett SR New Mexico NH
5.00
XXX

Men Pole Vault Section B Univ/Coll
==========================================================================
World: W 6.14m 1994 Sergey Bubka, UKR
American: A 6.03m 2000 Jeff Hartwig, Nike
Collegiate: C 5.98m 1996 Lawrence Johnson, Tennessee
Myers Std: S 5.80m 1999 Jacob Davis, Texas
Meet: M 5.90m 1998 Jacob Davis, Texas
NCAA Regl: R 5.00m
Name Year School Finals
==========================================================================
1 Justin Sutton JR Texas A&M 5.30mR 17-04.50
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30 5.40
P O O XXO XXX
2 Mike Landers FR UCLA J5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
XO XO XO XXX
2 Francisco Cannock JR Incarnate Word J5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
O O XXO XXX
2 Robert Sparks SR Navy J5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
O XO XXO XXX
2 Jason Matthews SR Texas A&M J5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
P XXO XO XXX
2 Cory Aguilar SO Abilene Christia J5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
P XO XO XXX
2 Scott Martin Oklahoma 5.15mR 16-10.75
4.85 5.00 5.15 5.30
O O O XXX
8 David Moore SO Oregon J5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
O XO XXX
8 Trevor Woods SR Oregon 5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
O O XXX
8 Daniel Patton JR Houston J5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
XO XO XXX
8 McKane Lee FR Washington J5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
O XO XXX
8 Gable Baldwin FR Nebraska J5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
XXO XXO XXX
8 P.J. Brown SR Arkansas 5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
O O XXX
8 Shane Hackett UCLA J5.00mR 16-04.75
4.85 5.00 5.15
XO XO XXX
15 Jeff Wyszynski So South Plains J4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00 5.15
XO P XXX
15 Sam Roberts SO Washington 4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00
O XXX
15 Gabriel Caraway SR LSU J4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00
XXO XXX
15 Drew Terry SO Texas J4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00
XO XXX
15 Darren Niedermeyer JR Wisconsin J4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00
XO XXX
15 Brandon McFarling FR Texas J4.85m 15-11.00
4.85 5.00
XXO XXX
-- Brandon Mahler So South Plains NH
4.85
XXX
-- Matt Novak FR Wisconsin NH
4.85
XXX
-- Stephen Martin SO Texas NH
4.85
XXX
-- Jimmy Duke SO Arkansas NH
4.85
XXX
-- Ken Wilson SR Texas Tech NH
4.85
XXX
-- Cameron Nott JR McNeese State NH
4.85
XXX
-- Jon Derby JR Oregon NH
4.85
XXX

[vaulterjim]

Hate to be a stickler but look at those results again and I think Jim Davis beat Tito's (Eliteness) on misses.