Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Tickets on sale for track banquet

The ACU track and field program will host its annual awards banquet on Thursday, Oct. 23, to honor its top athletes from the 2007-08 season.

The dinner will be at 6 p.m. at Hillcrest Church of Christ.  Tickets to the banquet are $15 and can be purchased by calling head coach Don D. Hood at (325) 674-2711.

The guest speaker this year will be Bob Fraley, the director of track and field at Fresno State University and the founder of the Pole Vault Summit.  Fraley's role in the 1989 creation of the summit helped rejuvenate the pole vault in the United States, and it annually attracts more than 2,000 male and female athletes from teenagers to Olympic gold medalists.

As a result of his contributions, Fraley was recently inducted into the Pole Vault Hall of Fame.  Credited nationwide with spearheading the development of the pole vault, Fraley joined Dave Roberts (former world-record holder) and Mike Tulley (silver medalist at the 1984 Olympic Games) as Hall of Fame inductees at the 2006 Pole Vault Summit.

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