{"id":28833,"date":"2013-06-21T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=28833"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:28:16","slug":"clarion-ledger-ole-miss-pole-vaulter-kendricks-now-among-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/clarion-ledger-ole-miss-pole-vaulter-kendricks-now-among-worlds-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarion Ledger: Ole Miss pole vaulter Kendricks now among world&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>OXFORD, Miss. \u2014 This is the true story of how a Mississippian came to be one of the best pole vaulters in the world.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s another story, one Sam Kendricks will tell people. It\u2019s shorter, more direct and perhaps saves a little face. But the reality is that his athletic career began as a kid just trying to make his father\u2019s Oxford High School track and field team.<\/p>\n<p>But as Kendricks can admit, he wasn\u2019t very fast as a seventh-grader. Nor was he very athletic. His twin brother Tom was, and Scott Kendricks just couldn\u2019t bear the thought of one brother making the team and the other not. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/article\/20130620\/SPORTS030103\/306200055\/Soaring-Sam-Ole-Miss-pole-vaulter-Kendricks-now-among-world-s-best\">Read the entire story. <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2014 This is the true story of how a Mississippian came to be one of the best pole vaulters in the world. There\u2019s another story, one Sam Kendricks will tell people. It\u2019s shorter, more direct and perhaps saves a little face. 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