Class of 2010 College Signings

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Jason Roberts from Lecanto florida to the university of cincinnati.

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http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/2 ... ith-Titans

Zauner hopes to reach new heights with Titans
Academics help PH Northern vaulter choose Detroit Mercy

BY JIM WHYMER
TIMES HERALD
• APRIL 30, 2010

It wasn't about who had the best track and field program when Kayla Zauner went looking for a college.

The Port Huron Northern senior student athlete said she wanted an "academic challenge."

Zauner, 18, fulfilled both goals Thursday morning when she signed a national letter of intent with the University of Detroit Mercy.

"When I had my overnight visit, the team was really nice," Zauner said. "The campus is very nice. The college is strong in academics.

"One girl is pole vaulting there. I plan on just pole vaulting right now, but will run if they need me to."

Zauner, who will graduate in June with a 3.8 grade-point average, plans to double major in criminal justice and forensic science.

Joining Zauner at the signing were her parents, Robert and Renee, along with Northern girls Coach Jenny Delong. Zauner's older brother, Cory, who plays football at Wayne State University, was unable to return home for the signing.

"This is awesome," Delong said. "It's a great opportunity for her. Kayla is so excited. She has worked hard for this.

"Kayla looked hard at schools. It was a big decision. She was impressed with the campus and they had the program she's going into."

Zauner's best performance in the pole vault event is 9 feet, 7 inches. She was a Michigan High School Athletic Association state finals qualifier last spring.

"I didn't do very well at the state finals last year," Zauner said. "I hope to go back to the finals this year and do better."

Zauner said she has cleared 10-6 in practice and hopes to make a run at Melissa Ullenbruch's school record of 11-6.

In addition to track, Zauner excelled in volleyball as a defensive specialist. She also was a team captain.

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Froehlich to pole vault for Capital
By Jim Walker | The Tribune
Originally published 03:01 a.m., May 4, 2010
Updated 03:01 a.m., May 4, 2010


PROCTORVILLE — Logan Froehlich’s career is on the rise, in more than one way.

The Fairland Dragons’ senior pole vaulter not only is improving his height as the season goes along, but he added quite a honor when he signed a letter-of-intent to play for the Capital University Crusaders.

“He’s gotten better and better. He just keeps working hard and does anything we ask of him. He’s one of the most coachable kids we’ve had. He’s getting rewarded for his hard work,” said Fairland track coach Jon Buchanan.

Logan said his sprint work during the indoor track season helped improve his speed and consequently his pole vaulting.

“Last year, if you had told me I would jump 12 feet, I’d have said ‘no way.’ This year I hope to get to 13 feet and be in the top 10 at Fairland,” said Froehlich.

With a chance to vault at the college level, Froehlich said he can continue to improve.

“Next year I think I can got 14 to 15 feet,” said Froehlich. “I work on lifting three days and run so I can get on a bigger pole. When I get to the next level I can focus on one sport.”

Froehlich ran cross country to help stay in shape. He said taking advantage of Capital’s indoor facility will be an asset to his college training and career.

“I can train year-round. I can never get tired of flying in the air,” said Froehlich.

Logan — who is president of the National Honor Society — received a Presidential Scholarship and plans to major in nursing and focus on anesthesiology. Capital is considered one of the top nursing schools in the country.

Logan’s twin brother Dalton has signed to play golf at Capital.

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Kathryn Barousse to Notre Dame

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Brooks to keep learning, vaulting at Marietta
By Jim Walker | The Tribune
Originally published 01:03 a.m., May 14, 2010
Updated 01:03 a.m., May 14, 2010


PROCTORVILLE — Imagine if Megan Brooks knew what she was doing.

“I don’t know a lot about pole vaulting. My coaches work with me and help me out a lot,” said Brooks.

Evidently, the Fairland Lady Dragons senior is learning well. So far she’s learned and done enough that Marietta College has signed her to a letter-of-intent to vault for the Pioneers.

“I really want to go to (college). I’ll get better times and better height. I’ll pole vault the most, but I’ll run, too,” said Brooks.

Marietta coaches have already seen enough of Brooks to know she can compete and improve at the next level.

“They came to some meets and they’ve seen a few things they said I can do to get a few feet higher,” said Brooks.

Brooks not only runs track, but she has been a member of the cross country team and also played softball and basketball.

“I like all the sports but I like (pole vaulting) the most. It’s the hardest and I think that’s why I like it the most,” said Brooks.

While Brooks pole vaults and runs sprints for the track team, Fairland coach Darah Snyder said the senior standout is even more versatile.

“Megan is very athletic. She’s a great pole vaulter, but she can run sprints, long jump and do relays as well. She’ll do whatever we ask her to do,” said Snyder.

Brooks holds the school record with a vault of 11-feet. She tied the mark last week at the Rock Hill Invitational that was also the meet record for girls.

Brooks qualified for the state meet last year where 12-foot won the event. Brooks thinks she can eclipse her own personal record.

Brooks talked to several other schools including Wright State and Muskingum before settling on Marietta.

“I looked at some D-1 schools but I thought a smaller school fit me better,” said Brooks. “(Marietta) is gorgeous and I want a school the challenges me academically as well as athletically.”

Brooks is undecided about a major but said she is leaning toward nursing.

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Lafayette High pole vaulter Kathryn Barousse headed to Notre Dame
BRUCE BROWN • BBROWN@THEADVERTISER.COM • MAY 14, 2010

First impressions can mean a lot. Making sure never hurts, either.



Lafayette High's Kathryn Barousse liked the campus and feel of Notre Dame when she went on her first recruuiting visit there, and was almost certain that's where she wanted to continue her track and field career in pole vaulting.

Just to be sure, though, she and her father, LHS football coach Mark Barousse, took a second look.

"I had been in contact with them for over a year now," said Barousse, the state 5A pole vault champion last weekend with a clearance of 12 feet. "I wanted to wait and see what schools offered, and they made a great offer.

"I was never originally a Notre Dame fan, but when I went on my official visit I loved it. I thought it was amazing. Then, I went a second time, when my dad and I were traveling. I wanted to make sure I wasn't just caught up in the hype of my official visit.

"I loved it just as much."

Her signing Thursday at Pete's restaurant capped a high school career that saw her fight back from a shoulder injury her junior year.

"She's still working her way back," Mark Barousse said. "She didn't touch a pole for 9 months. But in speed and strength, she continued to excel. Her persistence, her attention to detail, were important. If she had a bad meet, she wanted to be back out there at 8 o'clock the next morning to work on it.

"She wanted to do everything she could to be her best."

Kathryn ran the 200, 400, 800 and relays for LHS under coach Ronald Baillargeon, and her sprint work helped her in the vault.

"That has made her a stronger runner," Mark Barousse said. "It's given her a stronger, more consistent stride pattern."

Barousse will compete in summer track again this year, further honing her craft before heading to Notre Dame in August.

"They (Notre Dame coaches) definitely expect me to improve," Kathryn Barousse said. "They asked for film, and said they thought my technique was good. There are always things you can work on."

Since her father, uncle Mac and Baillargeon all pole vaulted in their youth, Kathryn had plenty of help in technique. Now comes the next stage.

"It's been amazing," said Barousse, who will major in biology or kiniseology. "The sport was already in the family. When I started, I never dreamed I'd be going to Notre Dame. It has opened amazing doors for me."

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Phantoms' Terstappen to vault for Clemson
Published: Thursday, May 20, 2010

By Martin Cooper, mcooper@pottsmerc.com


PHOENIXVILLE — Last summer, when Lauren Terstappen was starting her college search, Clemson University track and field coach Lawrence Johnson paid a visit to her home.

"He told me he wanted me on the team," said Terstappen. "But I didn't jump high enough to offer me an official visit."

Terstappen, who had only begun pole vaulting in late May of 2009 — three weeks prior to the Pioneer Athletic Conference Championships — went on with her search, visiting Bucknell and East Carolina.

Terstappen, who placed second at the District 1 Championships and qualified for states with a jump of 10-6 just a month after vaulting for the first time, continued to work and improve.

This past winter, still less than a year after taking her first jump, Terstappen established herself as the best scholastic female vaulter in Pennsylvania, winning the gold medal at the indoor state championships.

"When I jumped 12-3 during the indoor season, the next day I called the Clemson coach and said, 'Was that high enough?'," said Terstappen. "He said it was."

Terstappen took an official visit to Clemson and the Phoenixville senior accepted a scholarship to vault for the Tigers next year, choosing the South Carolina school over Virginia Tech and Bucknell.

"I just really like the environment, the team and the coaches," said Terstappen, who went on to jump 12-5 1/2 at the indoor national championships. "Everyone told me that when you look at schools, you need to like the school. If you get hurt and don't have athletics, you need to be happy there. I really like the school and South Carolina."

Terstappen began competing in gymnastics at age five and still competes in that sport at Level 9. She played soccer through her sophomore year at Phoenixville.

She took up track in seventh grade, concentrating on the hurdles through middle school and high school. She didn't begin pole vaulting until late in her junior season.

"I always wanted to try it in high school," said Terstappen, who trains twice a week at Vertical Assault in Bethlehem. "They don't have it in middle school. With the hurdles, I didn't have enough time. I found out about Vertical Assault and made time to go there on Sundays."

Terstappen — who was one of the best hurdlers in the PAC-10, qualifying for states in the event — has not hurdled this spring due to a foot injury that bothered her during indoor track. She was unable to pole vault through the first half of the outdoor season until receiving clearance that her foot was not fractured.

But once she began jumping this spring, she continued her meteoric rise in the event.

"Me and my mom were just saying the other day, the meets are starting to repeat for me," said Terstappen. "I jumped 10-6 at districts last year. That's the height I'm going to start at this year. It's funny how I progressed so fast."

Terstappen, who won the pole vault at last weekend's PAC-10 Championships with a Mercury-area outdoor record jump of 12-0, is favored to capture gold at districts Friday and she'll be one of the favorites to win the state championship a week later.

Then she'll head to Clemson where, for this neophyte vaulter, the sky is the limit.

"They haven't given me a height (they expect her to reach)," said Terstappen. "I've still only been doing this for a year. They see the potential overall. It's not going down. Anything higher than 12-6."

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PHOENIXVILLE — Last summer, when Lauren Terstappen was starting her college search, Clemson University track and field coach Lawrence Johnson paid a visit to her home.

Note: That is not pole vaulting LoJo, it's a different Lawrence Johnson.

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Arkansas women's track adds three for 2010-11
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Arkansas Razorback women's track and field head coach Lance Harter has announced the addition of three more National Letter of Intent student-athletes for the 2010-11 season.


Danielle Nowell is a native of Ardmore, Okla. and graduated from Plainview High School. She competes in the pole vault. She holds a personal best of 12-6. She won a state title, earned all-state honors and broke the state meet pole vault record.

They will join Breeana Coleman (Olathe, Kan./sprints and hurdles), Grace Heymsfield (Elkins, Ark./middle distance and distance), Ashley Isham (Cedar Park, Texas/distance), Diane Robison (St. Louis, Mo./distance), Amalie Skage (Bergen, Norway/jumps) and Megan Weller (Frankfort, Ill./pole vault) in the 2010-11 singing class.

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NIPOMO HIGH POLE VAULTER SIGNS LETTER OF INTENT
Jarratt vaults her way to SDSU
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Kelsie Jarratt pumps her fist after signing her letter of intent to attend SDSU. Applauding are her coaches Nathan and Madison Shields, her mother Holly Jarrett and (out of picture) her brother Kyle, and father Steve. (Len Wood/Staff)
Most daredevils these days prefer to defy gravity by motorcycle or souped-up hot rods. Nipomo track and field star Kelsie Jarratt needs only a pole and plenty of vertical space.
The most prolific pole vaulter in Nipomo High history, Jarratt signed a letter of intent Monday to take her high-flying vaulting skills to San Diego State University on an athletic scholarship.
“Excited is an understatement,” Jarratt said at her signing ceremony. “But I am very excited to be doing exactly what I want to do.”
It takes a lot to be a championship caliber pole vaulter and according to Nipomo coaches Nathan and Madison Shields, Jarratt certainly has the complete package.
“As far as pole vaulting qualities go, having no fear is a big one,” Nathan Shields said. “You have to be mentally tough, so if you have a bad day or a bad jump you can come back and do it again on the next one.”
And added Madison Shields, “For Kelsie it was a lot of natural ability.”
Might as well just call Jarratt “the Natural,” as she broke the four year-old school record by a whole foot in her first ever track meet as a sophomore.
“She’s a jumper, she’s fast and she can turn herself in the air — after that it was all just telling her how to move, how to step, how to plant; just the finer techniques of any track and field event,” Nathan Shields said.
Now as a senior, her list of accolades is long, including first place finishes in back-to-back San Luis Obispo County meets, three consecutive CIF Finals appearances and a State Finals appearance in her junior year. This year she vaulted a personal best of 12-6 at the Patriot Games Invitational in Bakersfield — shattering both the meet record and her own school record.
But before Jarratt was even introduced to pole vaulting, she was a diver with a gymnastics background.
“I didn’t even know what pole vaulting was,” Jarratt remembered. “I literally did not know what it was until I was trying it.
“I was doing diving, which was the same season as track, when one of my P.E. teachers said I should try out for the high jump. I tried that and I was horrible, but the high jump coach was also the pole vault coach and he said I should try it, so I did and I was pretty good, so here I am.”
With expectations running high heading into this year’s CIF Finals, Jarratt vaulted 11-feet even, well off her personal best, to finish in 5th place.
“With any athlete there’s going to be bad days,” Madison Shields said. “So sometimes it wasn’t easy coaching her, but all the way through she’s a great athlete and had a great attitude.
“Most of actually coaching Kelsie was just helping her to realize how great she was and how good of an athlete she was.”
Records, awards and a lasting legacy at NHS — check, check, check.
However, by signing to join the Aztecs next school year Jarratt may have accomplished her most impressive feat — becoming the first Titan female track and field athlete ever to score a Division I scholarship.
While she is still undecided on what her field of study at SDSU will be, despite the cliché, the sky is the definitely the limit for Jarratt — the sky just better watch out.

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Track & field: Cornwall's LaChance eager to vault over to Harvard


By Ken McMillan


Times Herald-Record
Published: 2:00 AM - 06/08/10
Pole vault standout Adrienn LaChance was sporting good grades at Cornwall, but she never considered applying to Harvard University until she received a recruiting phone call last November.
Come up for an official visit, assistant coach Matt Chisam said. LaChance jumped at the opportunity, fell in love with Cambridge and debunked some of her preconceived notions about what Ivy League life was all about.
"I sat through a couple of classes,'' LaChance said. "It's really not super challenging. I thought it would be way over my head and I wouldn't be able to keep up, but that wasn't the case. Everything was understandable and comprehensive.
"The girls were still on Facebook, listening to music and going out with their friends. There is time for other things. The kids were not with their noses in their books all day.''
Word of her acceptance came by cell phone while she was on her way to practice. "My heart jumped out of my chest, I was so happy,'' said LaChance, who would like to study foreign relations, French and Italian, perhaps for a career in diplomacy. At Harvard, she will be a teammate with Port Jervis graduate and former state pole vault champion Sydnie Leroy.
Pole vaulting certainly helped her chances at being accepted. A year ago LaChance ranked prominently worldwide in her age group, having cleared 12 feet, 71/2 inches.
It's been a rough go this spring, even though LaChance is still ranked No. 1 in the state heading into this weekend's state championships in Vestal. Her best leap indoors was 12 feet to win the Hispanic Games, but she's only managed 11-61/2 outdoors, winning the OCIAA meet.
LaChance got a late start to the spring season following an extended vacation in Arkansas. She's also been frustrated with the sporadic tutoring she has received from private coach Hugh Cauthers, who has missed some meets due to ill health and scheduling conflicts with other pole vaulters.
"I definitely feel I am in great shape right now. I just need the right coaching at this point,'' LaChance said. "I know I would be flying over 13. I have to have other teammates coach me and it's not as effective. You need that technical eye, and it's hard to find coaches like that.''
At the state championships, the girls' pole vault will be contested at 12:30 p.m. Friday. LaChance, who turned 18 on Monday, remains hopeful for winning gold, but she doesn't know what kind of coaching she'll get.
"It's the little tweaks that I need,'' LaChance said. "That's why I am really looking forward to going to Harvard. The coach there is great — he's very much in sync with the kids. I am looking forward to having a coach with me the whole time.''

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