OLYMPIAN EFFORT!
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Jennifer Stuczynski celebrates as she wins the women's pole vault final at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore. on Sunday.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Fredonia native Jenn Stuczynski has set the American record in the pole vault, clearing 16 feet, 1 3/4 inches to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic track and field team. Stuczynski broke the mark she’d set in May by one inch, then made two attempts to break Russian Yelena Isinbayeva’s world record, but didn’t clear 16-5 1/2 either time. She passed on a third attempt. However, Stuczynski's ticket to Beijing did not come stress free. With the opportunity to enter the competition when the bar got higher, Stuczynski decided to join at 15-feet-1 inch — a height that usually comes fairly easy to her. There, she missed her first two attempts and was in jeopardy of not making the team. A basketball player who took up pole vaulting four years ago and trains in a quonset hut, she has set the American record twice in seven weeks. She missed by a bunch on her two attempts at the world record, 16-5 1/2, but when it was over, she was thinking more about those misses at the s
» Full StoryStuczynski qualifies for finals
Fredonia graduate Jennifer Stuczynski qualified Thursday to participate in Sunday's pole vault finals at the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials being held in Eugene, OR.
Stuczynski cleared the first three heights of 4.10-, 4.20-, and 4.
Stuczynski advances in pole vault
Fredonia's Jennifer Stuczynski was one of a group of five women to advance in the qualifying round of the Olympic trials, which are being held in Eugene, Ore.
Stuczynski topped the 14-foot mark during the womnen's pole vault trials, which
Quest for gold begins tonight
By CRAIG HARVEY
OBSERVER Sports Editor
Fredonia's own Jennifer Stuczynski begins her quest for gold tonight in the qualifying round of the U.S. Olympic pole vault trials in Eugene, Ore.
NBC will broadcast the even
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