Rider senior Gabrielle Veterre from Washington Township picked up a pole vault at Ocean Breeze this weekend with a 12-1 ½ clearance at the NYC Gotham Cup.
Veterre cleared 11-1 ¾, 11-7 ¾ and 12-1 ½ on her 1st attempt before missing three tries at 12-5 ½.
Veterre is Rider’s indoor school record holder with a 12-8 ¾ at a meet last January at the Armory. She’s 3rd in school history outdoors with a 12-4 ¼ at Princeton this past May. That 12-8 3/4 makes her No. 9 on the all-time South Jersey alumni list.
She’s No. 2 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, behind only Talia Graham of Quinnipiac, who cleared 12-5 ½ in a meet last month at Yale’s Coxe Cage in New Haven.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 