BOSTON, Feb. 29 -- -- Just a few years ago, Stacy Dragila was so dominant in the women's pole vault she did not compete so much as entertain crowds. She had no idea what a silver medal looked like, ...

Stacy Dragila stood in the runway of the pole vault pit at Stanford's Cobb Track & Angell Field on Saturday staring at the bar, 15 feet, 9 1/4 inches above the ground. The crowd was hushed as Dragila ...

STANFORD, Calif. -- There's been a lot of talk this year that the world was catching up to Stacy Dragila in the women's pole vault. Hardly. Late Saturday at Cobb Track and Angell Field, Dragila ...

ATHENS, GREECE - If Stacy Dragila was going to surrender her place as the world's best female pole vaulter, it figured she would at least put up a fight. But at the end of the stadium where the ...

For Stacy Dragila, being first has come quite naturally since she first picked up a fiberglass pole and started reaching for the sky. She was the first to win a gold medal in the women's pole vault at ...

ATLANTA, March 2 -- Stacy Dragila won her sixth consecutive U.S. indoor title in the pole vault today and she will probably win a new car as the outstanding female athlete during the indoor season. So ...

Fear. She was talking about fear. You can understand that, can't you? After all, she begins her event by running very fast with an extremely large object _ a spear, more or less. Then she plants it in ...

NEW YORK — The last time the world saw Stacy Dragila, the pole vaulting queen exited the Olympic stadium in disbelief. With a cap pulled low on her head, tears streamed down her face as she came to ...

Should protective helmets be required for pole vaulters? Stacy Dragila, the reigning women's world record-holder and Olympic champion, says yes - to a point. Dragila, an assistant coach at Idaho State ...

Olympic champion Stacy Dragila raised the world record in the women's pole vault to 15 feet, 5 inches on Saturday at Pocatello, Idaho, twice breaking her own indoor world marks. Dragila, an assistant ...