Practice with Kaela
Michaela Kaliniak, known to her friends and family simply as Kaela, started her pole vault practice with a dynamic warm-up followed by the selection of poles she will need. Once on the runway she kicked things off with some one-arm drills . She then moved to her full approach for several more drills to help her turn and the top end of her vault. She stopped to help some of the younger, high school vaulters while Coach Jerry Sessions was preoccupied with a visitor. About halfway through practice Kaliniak took a break to recharge by eating some honey. Back to full energy she practiced several more drills before completing here final vaults of the night at a bungee set to about 10 feet. Kaliniak's practice is capped with more drills, this time using a cart to simulate the turn of a vault and a sliding box to simulate the approach and take off. "It wasn't a great practice... but you've gotta have something to keep working on," said Kaliniak of ...