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I'm an incoming freshman to the U and I was wondering if anybody knew around what height I would need to be able to walk-on to the team?

At the moment I have an officiated PR of 10'6". but since the end of Outdoor I've cleared 12'6" unofficiated and am working on improving more to hopefully clear 14' by the time I leave for school.

Also, I'm a guy.

First question would be, which U of Miami?

The only way you can know the answer to this question is to email the coach of the school.

Miami (FL) scholarship standards:

http://hurricanesports.cstv.com/auto_pd ... -standards

I would assume their walk on standards are probably 15 or 15-6. Keep in mind the ACC is a tough conference for pole vaulters.


As for Miami (OH) I couldn't find anything but I would think their standards maybe 14-15 somewhere in there. Your best bet is to maybe email the coach and find out if this is the miami you were talking about.

Good Luck!

UMiami in Florida

and rough 15' eh?

it's probably in that range. It might be more but again the acc is really tough you've got 3 of the best programs in the country for pole vault (vt, unc, duke) Just look at conference from this year.


Event 34 Men Pole Vault
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ACC: M 5.65m 1992 Jeff Bray, Florida State
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Yavgeniy Olhovsky SR Virginia Tech 5.50m 18-00.50 10
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25 5.30 5.35 5.40 5.45 5.50 5.55
P P P P O O P XO O O XO XXX
2 Xavier Tromp SR Clemson 5.50m 18-00.50 8
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25 5.30 5.35 5.40 5.45 5.50 5.55
P P P P O P O P XPP XO XO XXX
3 Hunter Hall SO Virginia Tech 5.25m 17-02.75 6
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25 5.30 5.35
P P P O O O P XXX
4 Chris Spear SR Clemson 5.15m 16-10.75 4.50
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25
P P XXO P O XXX
4 Parker Smith JR North Carolina 5.15m 16-10.75 4.50
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25
P P XO XO O XXX
6 Jared Jodon JR Virginia Tech 5.15m 16-10.75 3
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15 5.25
P P O O XO XXX
7 Scott Houston SO North Carolina 5.05m 16-06.75 2
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15
P P XO O XXX
8 Tony Shirk SO Duke 5.05m 16-06.75 1
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05 5.15
P O O XXO XXX
9 Mike Miller SO Virginia Tech 4.95m 16-02.75
4.65 4.80 4.95 5.05
O XO XO XXX
10 Daniel Keller SR North Carolina 4.80m 15-09.00
4.65 4.80 4.95
P XO XXX
11 Aaron Unterberger FR Georgia Tech 4.65m 15-03.00
4.65 4.80
XXO XXX
-- Andrew LaHaye FR Florida State NH
4.65
XXX
-- Matthew Armentrout FR Virginia NH
4.65
XXX
-- Sid Palas SR Duke NH
4.65
XXX
-- Pat Tenbrink SR Duke NH
4.65
XXX



But it can be done! So just go out and train hard and train smart. You can get there, good luck!!!

jeez tough crowd!

and yeah haha guess that just means more training in the offseason

What about Clemson in that group of programs?

Clemson is getting back up there again. They had a few down years but I will admit they're picking it back up.

(Pains me to say that a little though. I am a Gamecock fan for life after all haha. )

xjoeyx wrote:Clemson is getting back up there again. They had a few down years but I will admit they're picking it back up.

(Pains me to say that a little though. I am a Gamecock fan for life after all haha. )

Which program are you referring to, clemson guys or girls? Although i dont think either have had down years recently

In 2008 mitch greeley was the NCAA runner up, pr over 5.50 (5.56m)
In 2010 xavier tromp jumped 5.50 despite multiple injuries,

and since lets say 05, they have had multiple 17 footers (Mitch, Xavier, Chris Spear, Andrew Kessler)

I would say clemson has been more of a vault school than Duke in recent history. I dont believe Duke has had a 17ft vaulter since Brent Warner back in 2003. They have had some strong females though. Their second girl stepped up and had a great year after Lara Jones transferred out west. I would consider the mens side of the ACC to be VT (5.55, 5.42, 5.40, 5.18, 5.01 all returning), Clemson (5.50, 5.24 neither returning), UNC (5.34, 5.30 both returning)

probably girls. idk i've grown up in sc and it seems like they way i was told they had a few years where they weren't quite at the level they normally are. don't worry i know all about mitch. and i know recently (past 2 years) of a few guy vaulters from the state who wanted to go to clemson but went to other schools because of how good they are.