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Age not slowing AHS track athlete

Tom Peavy / Staff Writer
July 21, 2006

Those who doubt rising high school freshmen can find much national recognition in their respective sports have apparently not met Mary Ashton Nall.
Nall, who will begin her ninth-grade year at Auburn High, has accomplished something in track and field that many athletes never come close to.
Recently Nall competed in Nashville, Tenn., at the U.S. Junior Olympic Regionals, and qualified in the pole vault for the U.S. Junior Olympic Nationals in Baltimore with a jump of 9 feet, 8 inches.
“I’m excited,â€Â

This girl is awesome. She came up from Auburn to Birmingham a week before the Nationals and she was using to small of a pole. If I remember correctly she had a PR of 9' and after workin with my dad and she was almost gettin 10'! The girl has some courage though. We let her borrow a bigger pole 10 lbs. bigger than she was jumping on. At nationals she was blowing through her smaller and moved up to the one she borrowed and broke it. This being her first pole break people thought that she was done, but she sucked it up borrowed a pole from someone and made 9' 8" a PR and was using a pole she had not been jumping on. Congrats to her and I wish her luck for the up and coming season.

Chris Spear

dude i went to camp with her at uga