When Missouri pole vaulter Brian Hancock was in seventh grade, he played football and basketball with other teenagers. Yet it was practicing on a pole vault pit in his uncle’s barn that would eventually make the Monroe City, Mo., native the only freshman on the MU men’s track and field team to qualify and compete in this weekend’s Mideast Regional meet.
Tigers vaulter falls short, but impresses
Sunday, May 27, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 3:14 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 9, 2008
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