For Ryan Younggreen, being out front is starting to become a little habit-forming. Photo by Alan Versaw.
It's difficult to say what was producing more heat in the Cadet Field House on Sunday--an overachieving heating system or the athletes on the track. In any case, it felt like summer down on the competition level of the indoor track facility. The ice at the hockey arena next door probably wasn't doing so well.
Almost before anyone could get their bearings, Megan McCabe and Mariah Walker had set new standards for the indoor season. McCabe's 11-5.75 in the pole vault just gets her back closer to where she was last spring, but Walker's 46-2.5 extends last week's PR throw by another three inches.
Once Carly Paul got a few kinks in her approach worked out, the high jump was her sole property. The field, which included Ashlyn Hare, found the answers increasingly more difficult to come by as Paul kept making clearances. For this day, Paul found her limit at 5-5.75--easi...