Coming Up Short
By her sophomore year of college, Allison Stokke had added another four inches to her personal best pole vault mark. But despite her improvements, the former star finished eighth at the Pac-10 Championships and seventh at the MPSF Indoor Championships. For the first time in her pole vaulting career, Allison Stokke wasn’t placing near the top in her events.
In her junior year, the pole vaulter saw another eighth-place finish at the Pac-10 Championships, but this time, she didn’t even qualify for the NCAA Championships. It seemed as though Allison Stokke had reached her peak. Was the former high school superstar’s career as a pole vaulter finally coming to an end?