She easily cleared 13–9.25 on her first attempt, then cupped her hands to her mouth through tears. When she topped 14 feet a handful of minutes later, the spectators at JeffCo Stadium erupted in ra…
May 16 :Lilly Nichols, of Broomfield, goes 14-feet to win the 5A pole vault during the first day of the Colorado State Track and Field Championships on May 16, 2024.LAKEWOOD — When Broomfield senior Lilly Nichols first cleared the 13 foot, 7 inch pole vault bar at the state track and field championships on Thursday afternoon, she had already won her third Class 5A crown and set a personal record.Nichols decided to go for the all-Colorado girls record of 13-9, which Andrea Willis set in 2016.
May 16:Lilly Nichols, of Broomfield, has tears of joy after winning the 5A pole vault during the first day of the Colorado State Track and Field Championships on May 16, 2024. “She’s always been very good at everything she touches, sport-wise, but never really stuck to anything. It was really come and go. I just thought eventually, when it was going to get hard, she was just going to leave it and move on to something else, and she never did.”
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