"The Revolution of Women's Pole Vault"
by Hannah Raila
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This project began when Hannah started developing her first skills as a future vaulter in September of 2003. When asked to do a project at her high school, dealing with "a revolution", she gathered materials, interviewed, secured a video and made a model on "The Revolution of Women's Pole Vault". The presentation of her project will include:
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A/ First Paragraph of Hannah's essay - - "The story of the revolution of women in sports is not complete without the little-known account of the revolution of women in pole vaulting. There was an evident and rapid development of the event from the early 1990's, when it was virtually non-existent, to now. I took an extraordinary amount of effort from many people to get women's pole vault included as a tack and field event. The exhibit is a model of a picture taken of Samantha Shepard setting the U.S. scholastic indoor national record at the first Millrose Games that allowed women to vault. By setting that record, she was one of a string of people that helped prove to the world that women could, and should, pole vault." |
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B/ The Model
Hannah made this model of Samantha Shepard setting a US High School Indoor Girl's Pole Vault Record at the 1998 Millrose Games when Samantha was 14 - an eighth grader. The next day - in the New York Times - and article about Women's Pole Vault by Sports reporter - William C. Rhoden. - |
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C/ New York Times Article "Female Vaulters Make a Case for Inclusion." February 15, 1998 |
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D/ Click here to go to: The Video of Samantha Shepard's US Scholastic Record Vault 12' 6" at Madison Square Garden, NY - 1998 when she was an 8th grader {This video will play in Windows Media Player} |
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