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CoEd Varsity Indoor Track
Staff Bios.
Jim Townsend
Jumps Coach
CoEd Varsity Indoor Track
Coach Townsend has been coaching the Pole vault in high school and collegiate programs since 2006. In high school, he trained under Rick Suhr, the same coach as the reigning Olympic Gold Medalist Jenn Suhr. He has an all-time best of of 14'7" and was All-New-York-State in high school. He competed Division 1 at the University at Buffalo for 2 years and then coached for the same school for 3 years. Through his club in Western New York, he coached 4 New York State Champions and 3 State Runner-ups from 2008 to 2013, including a boy over 15'9" and girls over 12'8" and 12'6" that both went on to full Division 1 scholarships. He has also sent 7 athletes to Division 1 programs in the Pole Vault in that time.
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Email:
six.vaulting@gmail.com
