Date posted online: Sunday, May 20, 2007
Marian's Gergel
flies high
Senior wins pole vault at state track
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But Marian Catholic senior Melissa
Gergel never wavered when it came to choosing
between that race and the pole vault.
"I did one meet with that and I was done,"
Gergel joked, referring to the 800.
"That was so hard,
harder than the pole vault, I think. I knew (the vault) was something I
wanted to do, but I wasn't expecting anything miraculous."
Gergel got it anyway at Saturday's
girls state track meet. Clearing 12 feet, 6
inches, she became the first local female athlete to garner a championship
in the vault.
In winning her title, Gergel bested Lincoln-Way
Central's Jenna Wexter, the girl who had
defeated her at the Illinois Prep Top Times. The Top Times, held at the
beginning of April, is considered an indoor version of the state meet.
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