Seneca graduate Julia Greeley tied the Lafayette pole vault record with a lifetime-best clearance at Ocean Breeze over the weekend.
Greeley, a Lafayette senior from Southampton, cleared 12-11 ½ at the Fastrack National Invite. That tied the record set by Elise Buffinton when she won the 2014 ECAC Championship at Boston University.
It’s No. 1 in the Patriot League.
Greeley’s previous indoor PR was a 12-5 ½ in a meet at Moravian University in Bethlehem last January.
Buffinton set Lafayette’s outdoor record of 12-5 ½ at the 2013 Penn Relays and matched it in 2014 at meets in Bethlehem and Annapolis, Md. Greeley is No. 2 on the Lafayette outdoor list with her 12-2 from a home meet in Easton last April.
At Seneca, Greeley won the 2020 state Group 2 championship indoors and had PRs of 11-0 indoors and 11-9 outdoors.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 