Christyan Sampy needed a ride home from school. An eighth-grader at Spring Forest Middle School, Sampy decided to tag along one day as an older friend went to pole vault practice. Joshua Gossett, the ...

The University of Houston senior tied for third in the pole vault Wednesday at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships, the highest finish ever for the Cougars in the event. In his previous two ...

HOUSTON — The seventh-best collegiate pole vaulter in the country is a homegrown athlete from Spring Branch and one of the few African Americans in the sport. Christyan Sampy won the pole vault this ...

The Class 6A pole vault was down to two competitors by the time the bar was raised to 16 feet, 6 inches, May 11 at the UIL state track and field champions at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin. Stratford ...