The routines are so similar, they’re almost indistinguishable: The athlete stands at one end of the runway, blocking out the whirlwind of activity around her. Her steely glare belies nerves and ...

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If Superman can do it, so can I. At least that's what I'm telling myself as I stand, muscles quivering, halfway down a track that leads to what looks vaguely like a stadium goalpost in a barn outside ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Bethany Buell remembers the suggestion she received as an eighth grader from Chris Moore. Moore, a track and field coach at ...

Stories about female gymnasts making a seamless transition to pole vaulting are commonly told. Live Oak’s Clayton Simms offers the flip side. Literally. “I did gymnastics for five or six years,” Simms ...

Wearing a gauzy blue two-piece costume that resembles a circus acrobat’s uniform, Laura Martin climbs up an 11-foot steel pole in a move popularly called the “Caterpillar Crawl.” Aggressive and ...