how high the moon...
how high the moon... lewis and hamilton, 1940 So, your opportunity to try out for the Olympics back in '72 was quashed by the only injury of your career? How did that happen? The Olympic Trials were coming up and I was all set to try out, Mike Hanna, Noblesville (Indiana) High School Girls Pole Vault coach recounted . The Top 3 are taken and I had cleared 17 feet which would have qualified me. A few days before the trials, I was practicing and had a bad vault and landed on what's called the front porch of the landing pit. I caught my right foot on the edge of the pit and a shoe spike caught the mat and turned my ankle around. HUH? What's up with that? How ironic. And, that was your only injury in all your pole vaulting day...