{"id":16779,"date":"2022-02-03T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:47:18","slug":"harding-pole-vaulter-breaks-school-indoor-record-for-the-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2022\/02\/03\/harding-pole-vaulter-breaks-school-indoor-record-for-the-second-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Harding pole vaulter breaks school indoor record for the second time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by Hannah Hackworth<\/em> | <em>Photo by Balazs Balassa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Track and field indoor season had their second meet \u2014 \u2018Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 \u2014 in Pittsburg, Kansas, on Friday, Jan. 21. Harding\u2019s men and women\u2019s teams both placed third, and a few individuals had outstanding accomplishments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior Sierra White won the pole vault and broke the school indoor record by clearing 4.03 meters, breaking her previous record of 3.76 meters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy very first vault freshman year I broke the school indoor record, then last year at Washburn I broke that [record] by clearing 12-6 [3.76 meters],\u201d White said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her vault was an NCAA provisional qualifying height, ranking her as one of the best in the nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReally, my goal for indoor season was to get up to the height I cleared outdoors,\u201d White said. \u201cHaving that happen the first meet \u2014 I was like, \u2018Ok, so I\u2019ve hit that goal.\u2019 I really didn\u2019t have any others set, but my goal for the entire year is 13-10 [4.11 meters].\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this meet went over so well for White, her pre-meet superstitions have changed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore this meet I never used chalk on my hands,\u201d White said. \u201cA lot of vaulters use chalk on their hands, but that was my superstition for the longest time. This is the first meet that I used chalk on my hands and now it\u2019s probably going to happen at every other meet.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s more than superstition setting White apart. Track and field head coach Don Hood said her natural talent and work ethic is the key to her success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe is fast, strong and courageous \u2014 a great combination for a vaulter.\u201d Hood said. \u201cHer success encourages all of us. Every athlete wants to do well, and when one does, all the rest are motivated to continue to work hard.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junior pole vaulter Lindsey Parker said this meet was a good starting point for the rest of the indoor season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince we have all been jumping so long, we have gotten to the point where we have learned the techniques and steps, but we have to fit them together like a puzzle, otherwise it won\u2019t work well,\u201d Parker said. \u201cWe are down to nit picking little details, which is frustrating and motivating, because we are so close to making some big jumps. I think this first meet just showed us the potential we have and stirred our motivation for the season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Hannah Hackworth | Photo by Balazs Balassa Track and field indoor season had their second meet \u2014 \u2018Rumble in the Jungle\u2019 \u2014 in Pittsburg, Kansas, on Friday, Jan.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15212,"featured_media":16780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16781,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions\/16781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}