Getting Poles in HS

[mcminkz05]

Jodie has a small pole for warmups and for heavy headwind/crosswinds. Then she has 4 13' Mystic Carbons at .8 flex intervals, then 4 13'6" poles at .6 flex intervals. Of course she does not use all these at every meet and she has 2 poles in the bag that she's never been on....but they are there and ready! We just always have them all in the bag. She went through all the "girl" poles they had the first year, then they started buying poles. The athletic department and coach are very supportive. I just say "this is what she needs" and they get it. (But I haven't been able to talk them into new uniforms for the girls!) They will have a great series of poles after she graduates. She is a junior this year. She also does not have a club to associate with within 2 1/2 hrs., so she has only the school poles to rely on. She is VERY lucky. Our hs also has a pit the size of most universities.

I wish my school woiuld do that!! I spent all of last season begging for new poles, and they pretty much just ignored me, so i ended throwing away my soph season on a pole 2 feet too short, and 10 pounds too small I am trying to get my own, but i have no $ and no job during football-track seasons, so im still trying to get a pole to jump on this year. If i could get a really GOOD deal from a place that makes/sells them i would maybe be able to talk my parents into buying a few, but havnt found anythhing yet All my school has are a bunch of "girl" poles, a few giant ones (like 16' 190's), and some smal ones that i wy outgrew after frosh year. I dont think wev goten any new poels for like 10 years, by looking at our small, old, collection...

[Carolina Extreme]

I wish my school woiuld do that!! I spent all of last season begging for new poles, and they pretty much just ignored me, so i ended throwing away my soph season on a pole 2 feet too short, and 10 pounds too small I am trying to get my own, but i have no $ and no job during football-track seasons, so im still trying to get a pole to jump on this year. If i could get a really GOOD deal from a place that makes/sells them i would maybe be able to talk my parents into buying a few, but havnt found anythhing yet All my school has are a bunch of "girl" poles, a few giant ones (like 16' 190's), and some smal ones that i wy outgrew after frosh year. I dont think wev goten any new poels for like 10 years, by looking at our small, old, collection...

Have you tried the Booster Club? You might want to get a list together of the poles you need with taxes, shipping everything and approach some local businesses too. If you want the poles bad enough, you do what you've got to do. Check with other schools to see if you can borrow also, on the condition that if you break it you replace it. But you need to get that commitment from your school or parents to back it up first.

Good luck!

[Barto]

I wish my school woiuld do that!! I spent all of last season begging for new poles, and they pretty much just ignored me, so i ended throwing away my soph season on a pole 2 feet too short, and 10 pounds too small I am trying to get my own, but i have no $ and no job during football-track seasons, so im still trying to get a pole to jump on this year. If i could get a really GOOD deal from a place that makes/sells them i would maybe be able to talk my parents into buying a few, but havnt found anythhing yet All my school has are a bunch of "girl" poles, a few giant ones (like 16' 190's), and some smal ones that i wy outgrew after frosh year. I dont think wev goten any new poels for like 10 years, by looking at our small, old, collection...

Have you tried the Booster Club? You might want to get a list together of the poles you need with taxes, shipping everything and approach some local businesses too. If you want the poles bad enough, you do what you've got to do. Check with other schools to see if you can borrow also, on the condition that if you break it you replace it. But you need to get that commitment from your school or parents to back it up first.

Good luck!

I traded two poles for a cow, sold a calf every year and bought two poles each year with the proceeds. Four years = eight poles.

Redneck Economics

Barto

[Skyin' Brian]

figuring out a borrowing system with other schools is good. of course you need to be able to lend out some poles to get some in return, but it works out cheaper than buying a bunch every year. of course i remember one year in high school my squad broke a total 4 poles including 3 that were borrowed. of course, 2 of the borrowed ones were pretty knicked up to begin with and the third the other school never did find out about

[Carolina Extreme]

If you want the poles bad enough, you do what you've got to do. Check with other schools to see if you can borrow also, on the condition that if you break it you replace it. But you need to get that commitment from your school or parents to back it up first.

Good luck!

I traded two poles for a cow, sold a calf every year and bought two poles each year with the proceeds. Four years = eight poles.

Redneck Economics

Barto

DANG, I wish I had wun of dos!!! Dat mus be wun of dem selph reper ducin Texas Pol Yumper Cows. I hurd dey ride betr dan a horse. My unc,... well hes my relly my pa, he got wun.

That's awesome Barto! Just messing with you. Your my idol now.

[ashcraftpv]

I wish my school woiuld do that!! I spent all of last season begging for new poles, and they pretty much just ignored me, so i ended throwing away my soph season on a pole 2 feet too short, and 10 pounds too small I am trying to get my own, but i have no $ and no job during football-track seasons, so im still trying to get a pole to jump on this year.

Its hard to believe a D1 school with a decent program like Michigan dosn't have $$$ set aside int he budget each year for poles. We always got poles when we needed them, guys and girls. poles are always a good investment at a D1 school with a decent program as you're almost always going to have another jumper using them at some point. Who coaching there now? Is Dave Wooley still around?

[zack]

actually Ash I think mcminkz05 is still in HS in Michigan.

[ashcraftpv]

oh, oops.....guess the avatar and Ann Arbor location threw me off

[Robert schmitt]

the 16' 190's were throwing me off. Don't know too many high schools that have those laying around.

[Robert schmitt]

Hey, why don't you/the school sell those two big poles and use the procedes to possibly get you one pole!!!

[mcminkz05]

oh, oops.....guess the avatar and Ann Arbor location threw me off

yes, i am a Jr. In HS, in Ann Arbor. yeah, i couldnt really find anything of interest to put as an avatar so i stuck the Michigan thing innthere b/c im a big Michigan fan

[mcminkz05]

Ok, my coach (school coach) and i tried to find other schools to borrow poles from, but theres only like me and one other guy around here that are really serious vaulters, and all the schools dont seem to have a good pole selection either. Actually theres a few schools that borrow poles from us, but none had sizes i needed. See heres the dealw ith our school.. All our poles are pretty old, and we actually have a decent number of them. But the sizes pretty much skip from like 140's to 180's. So we have a to of small ones, which work for our other school vaulters cuz they are all small and not very good, but the big oens we have are BIG. I was looking through our pole closet, and there were a few 15+ to 16+ poles in there, but all high weight ratings. I weigh about 165, and need a range of like 13-6-15' poles. And about selling the poles, i suggestedit to my school coach, but as usual, i was pretty much ignored. I did mention though, if i could find a good deal on a small set of poels my parent might get em, but otherwise im gonna ahve to harrass my school into it, and that didnt seem to work very well. Ex: last year- we had a guy about 190, who was a decent vaulter, but we kept sayign he needed a pole, but the school ignored us, so he ended out jumping on one of the huge ones, holding down like 3 feet fromt he top, lol.