4th of July Street Vault

Seward, Nebraska is home to one of the country’s oldest running street pole vault competitions.

The 2023 4th of July Street Vault was a huge success. Roughly 50 vaulters of various ages competed. The winning vaulters were as follows:

Middle School Girls, Ella Glenn @ 8’00”
Middle School Boys, Camden Wagoner @ 11’00”
High School Girls, Alyssa Onnen @ 12’06”
High School Boys, Tie… Jax Jacobson & Kalen Knott @ 14’00”
College Women, Maria Kimpson @ 13’00”
College Men, Zach Zohner @ 15’06”
Open Women, Abigail Collingham @ 11’00”
Open Men, Jake Goertzen @ 14’06”

We will host the 4th of July Pole Vault competition again in 2024.

Registration is CLOSED for this year’s event. We have reached the max number of vaulters for this year’s event.

2023 4th of July Competition
The competition format aims to keep groups smaller and help the competition move along faster. We will be on one runway and pit again this year.

Registration for the 4th of July event is $25.00 online only, no day of registrations will be accepted.

July 4th: Group 1 Division
– Warm-ups start at 8:00 am
– The competition starts at 9 am till about Noon.
– Capped space limit: up to 25-30 total competitors
– This is a combined group of male and female athletes. We will run them simultaneously with a bar starting at 7′ and one bar at 10′. So for example we will go through the first attempts at 7′ and then the first attempts at 10′. Once the first attempts are done we will repeat for second and third attempts in the same manner.
Athletes will be assigned group placement based on season PR on the entry form.

July 4th: Group 2 Division
– Warm-ups start at Noon or after the previous competition completes.
– Competition starts at 1:00 pm and goes till about 3:30 pm
– Capped space limit: up to 20 total competitors
We will run this the same way as the Group 1 Division but determine the heights once entries are submitted.

Mulligans! One-fourth attempt may be purchased at the event for $5.00.

We look forward to seeing you this 4th of July!