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W-boro's Curley clears 14 feet in pole vault
By Steve Little The Record Herald


GREENCASTLE-ANTRIM - The recent string of Waynesboro meets Greencastle-Antrim rivalry matchups continued at Kaley Field Tuesday as the boys' and girls' track teams clashed after a series of showers passed.

The rivalry lived up to its hype as the Maidens won by just 10 points, 80-70, while the Indians won the boys' portion, 90-60, capturing nine firsts in the individual event while the Devils won two of three relays.
Added to those performances were a number of personal bests for all sides and a school record 14-0 for Indian Bryan Curley in the pole vault.

For Curley, it's been a slow but steady buildup to the feat.

"The progress I made wouldn't have happened without the coaches," Curley began. "I want to thank Coach (Doug) Crist (head coach), Coach (Bob) Curley and the volunteer coach who devotes a lot of his time, Tom Lowry - the previous pole vault record holder.

"I started the season at the first meet 12-6 and the next meet I got 13-3. At 13-6, I tied the record. The coaches have been evaluating what I'm doing right and wrong and therefore telling me what to correct. Without them I would not have broken the record."



He added, "It felt great to break the record. It's been my goal since ninth-grade since I started pole vault. I started out at nine feet with the seniors pushing me and with me always trying to keep up with the seniors.

Crist noted that Curley beat the 13-6 record he tied at the Shippensburg Invitational the week before.

Curley progresses

"It's been a similar progression to last year," Crist said. "He's gotten better each week and the key for Bryan has been his off-season work. He has gone to pole vault camps in the summer and this winter he attended a Hagerstown Junior College clinic to work on his technique and pole vaulting form. He showed potential with a 12-6 as a sophomore...If he gets his form down a little more, there's no telling how high he can go."

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DISTRICT 3 TRACK: Indians' Bryan Curley wins pole vault

By JOEL RINEER
Staff writer

Gold digging


With a height of 14 feet, 3 inches, Waynesboro's Bryan Curley won gold in the boy's Class AAA pole vault at the District 3 Track and Field Championships on Saturday at Shippensburg University.


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Indian vaulter secures District 3 gold


Waynesboro's Bryan Curley celebrates gong over the bar en route to winning the District 3 Class AAA pole vault gold medal with 14-3.


SHIPPENSBURG - A year ago, Waynesboro junior Bryan Curley was at home during the District 3 Track and Field Championships.

This year, the Indian pole vaulter had a Class AAA gold medal draped around his neck after winning with a vault of 14-3.
Curley has improved tremendously since last season when he ended with a 12-6 in the Mid-Penn Conference Championships.

But he did a lot of training to reach the heights he now makes routinely - he's been at 14 feet or more in three meets, including the last two.

"I've done a lot of work," Curley admitted. "I did a lot of vaulting over the winter at HCC...they let me use the facility. I started off (in the season opener at Scotland) where I left off last year."

Curley was solid from the opening height of 12-6 and even his misses weren't by much.

His first miss came at 13-6 when he appeared to come down on the bar after soaring way above it against the clear, blue sky.

He cleared the bar easily on his next attempt and missed by a little at 14-0 before once again finding success on his second try.

Curley nailed his vault at 14-3 on his first attempt and, in an event that places are often determined on misses, the Indian vaulter was now clearly in the lead with other vaulters finding the misses piling up on them.

In the driver's seat

Of going over 14-3 on the first try, Curley said, "It put me in the driver's seat. A lot of vaulters hit vaults on first attempts. I just happened to be the last to hit a key one - first attempt at 14-3.

"Any time it gets real high, it gets real technical - just one little thing, one little tap of the bar and it comes off."

Top-seeded Central Dauphin senior Matt Gallup was the only other vaulter to go over the bar at 14-3, but Curley locked up the gold by fewer misses.

Curley seems to be very patient in his approach to vaulting - he never seems to rush anything, allowing the pole to do its job of getting him over the bar.

However, he said it's not a conscious thing.

"The vault is so short," he related, "you don't have much time to think about it. Everything just clicks into place or it doesn't."

In an interesting sidebar, at the start of the season WASHS Athletic Director Dan McLaughlin put out a call for a person to help coach pole vault this season, saying it was possible the school might not compete in the event if a person couldn't be found to supervise vaulters during practices.

Curley said he wasn't worried that a coach wouldn't be found. He noted former Waynesboro vault Andrew Zimmerman helped out last year when the same problem came up.

This time he received double help with his dad, Bob, and former Indian record holder Tom Lowry volunteering to help.

Lowry set the school record at 13-6 in 1981 and Curley has broken the longtime standard several times this season, with a best of 14-4 in winning the Mid-Penn Conference pole vault on May 14.

Of Lowry, Curley pointed out, "He's great. He knows a lot about pole vaulting and its all volunteer work."

Curley also praised McLaughlin for keeping the Waynesboro pole vault area in good condition, adding, "He does a good job running the athletic programs at our school."