Lone Star Pole Vaulting

Lonestar sweeps top 3 on JV at New Braunfels Highschool Track Meet this past week! 🥇 🥈 tie for 🥈💙💙💙

17’1 gripping 14’10 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Our elementary medalists! Lincoln Spielmann in 2nd place with a jump of 5’8 and Clark Frisbie with a jump of 6’2 for gold!

Blast from the past

7th grade boys medalist!
3rd place: Walker Frisbie
2nd Place: Logan Tennell
1st Place : Gavin Starnes

Our 8th grade babies are seniors now!

8TH grade girl medalist
3rd Place: Shobana Spielmann
2nd Place: Sydney Garcia / Kendall Hoskins
1st Place: Paige Beehgley

May 17th All-Comers TF meet in Georgetown, TX, come vault/run/throw with us!

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Lone Star Pole Vault Newsletter 8-20-24

Welcome to the "off season" and back to school training. While summer may not technically be over and Fall hasn't officially started yet, Lone Star is already looking ahead and training for the 2025 season. We hope everyone had a great summer, got a chance to watch the Olympics, and are looking forward to the upcoming track season as much as we are.

Coaching Updates

Welcome Coach Joy Sherwood - Joy is a junior at the University of Texas and has been training at Lone Star since 2017. With an extensive background in gymnastics, Joy excelled in the pole vault in high school for Great Hearts Monte Vista School in San Antonio graduating in 2022 with a gold and bronze medal at the UIL 3A State Championships and a personal record of 13'3". While still in high school, Joy served as an unofficial "Coach's Assistant" at practice here at Lone Star where she would break out the younger or less experienced pole vaulters and work one-on-one with them on skill development during busy group sessions. Joy has always stood out as a student-of-the-event among her peers, researching technique, asking questions, attending seminars, and dedicating herself to refining technique. Her knowledge-base, attention to detail, enthusiasm, ability to demonstrate proficiently, and great communication skills made her an ideal candidate to add to our coaching team here at Lone Star. She has been shadowing and co-coaching with myself for the past 3 weeks and I have supervised and observed her teaching both private lessons and groups. I can confidently state that I would not hesitate to put any of my own 4 children in a private or group lesson with Joy as I know they would be in great hands, coached safely, taught properly, and would have fun. Joy is currently offering 3 group sessions a week at 5:30 on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as well as private lesson slots before and after those groups. She will also be covering a few Sundays for Coach Henderson. Get scheduled for lessons with Joy and see for yourself!

Farewell to Coach Logan Fraley - Logan has recently moved to St. Louis, Missouri to attend seminary school. He will likely continue to coach pole vaulting there at a school and possibly a club. We truly enjoyed having him here and wish him all the best!

See you later to Coach Will Anderson - Will is a full-time teacher at Chapa Middle School in Kyle, TX and coaches football in the Fall as well as being busy with numerous other school activities. He will return at the end of this Fall Semester to coach weekends at Lone Star and has even mentioned competing at the National Pole Vault Summit in Reno in January! We look forward to having him back!

Where is Calie? - Coach Calie Spencer is on a sabbatical until the middle of October when she will return to Lone Star. She has been traveling around Europe since the end of July having been in Portugal, France, and Morocco. Safe travels!

Coach Austin Davisson - Austin has been an integral part of everyday operations around Lone Star helping with everything from coaching to maintenance and repairs, fabrication, and cleanup. He will start school again next week but you will see him around the gym periodically training for his junior season at UIW.

Coach Kyle Henderson - Henderson continues to be "the Sunday coach" in addition to his duties as a retired contract employee with Comal ISD. As membership picks up we hope to see more of him around the gym.

Coach Kris Allison - Now starting my 24th year of owning and running Lone Star, I am currently coaching Monday and Wednesday evening groups as well as offering weekday private lessons Monday though Friday. As membership and demand increases, I will add on more sessions/days as needed. I continue to operate the athletic equipment sales and landing systems (pits) repair and fabrication businesses whenever I'm not coaching.

Rate Changes

Private Lessons: cash only, may be split between 2 participants, additional participants are an additional $50/each.
Senior Coach - this currently includes Coach Calie, Coach Henderson and Coach Kris. $100 per hour, cash only.
Junior Coach - this currently includes Coach Joy. $75 per hour, cash only.
Group Lessons: Existing rates will remain in effect until December 31st. On January 1st there will be a rate increase. All payment types are accepted for group lessons.
Per Session - Currently $35 per session, increasing to $40 on January 1st
Bronze Package - Currently $120 for 4 sessions within 30 days, increasing to $140 on January 1st
Silver Package - Currently $200 for 8 sessions within 30 days, increasing to $240 on January 1st
Gold Package - Currently $240 for 12 sessions within 30 days, increasing to $300 on January 1st
Sibling/Household Discount - For families with multiple members participating, each additional participant after the first will be billed at a 25% discount for all services. This includes any and all siblings, parents, children residing together.
Group Practice Session Schedule: Please take 2 minutes, click on the link below, and complete our Fall Practice Schedule Survey. We are trying to assess the best days and time ranges to hold both private lessons and group sessions and need your feedback! We can't guarantee that we can meet all day and time demands but if we have consensus and staff availability we will sure try!

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For the current time, all groups regardless of label will be considered "mixed ability" until we have enough participants in each to break them out by ability level. We need a regular attendance of at least 3 people per group to keep it on schedule. If sessions fill to our maximum attendance of 8, we will begin adding additional groups at different time slots based on availability.

Sundays: 1:00-2:30 with Coach Henderson, 5:30-7:00 with Coach Joy. (Coach Joy will be filling in for Coach Henderson during his 1:00 sessions on September 1st and 8th.)
Mondays: 5:00-6:30, 6:30-8:00 with Coach Kris
Tuesdays: 5:30-7:00 with Coach Joy
Wednesdays: 5:00-6:30, 6:30-8:00 with Coach Kris
Thursdays: 5:30-7:00 with Coach Joy
Private Lesson Schedule: current availability, subject to change at any time. Please make any requests for days/times outside this schedule via text or email.

Sundays: 10:00-1:00, 2:30-7:00 with Coach Henderson; 4:00-5:30, 7:00-8:00 with Coach Joy
Mondays: 9:30-5:00 with Coach Kris
Tuesdays: 9:30-5:00 with Coach Kris; 4:00-5:30, 7:00-8:00 with Coach Joy
Wednesdays: 9:30-5:00 with Coach Kris
Thursdays: 9:30-5:00 with Coach Kris; 4:00-5:30, 7:00-8:00 with Coach Joy
Fridays: 9:30-5:00 with Coach Kris
Upcoming Competitions - Here are a few "save the date" events we plan to attend in the coming months and may add or delete depending on interest:

Lone Star Annual Halloween Vault, New Braunfels. Saturday, October 26th. More details forthcoming
Mac Vault's Bob Crites Invitational and Masters' Symposium, Navasota, TX. Saturday, November 16th. https://www.macvaultacademy.com/upcoming-events
Mac Vault Academy, Navasota, TX. Saturday, December 7th.
Chapman Family Pole Vault Expo at Austin Pole Vault, Pflugerville, TX. Friday, December 27-Saturday, December 28. https://austinpolevault.com/
Pole Vault in Paradise, Key West, FL. Saturday, January 4th, 2025 https://kwtfc.org/pole-vault-in-paradise/
National Pole Vault Summit, Reno, NV. Friday, January 17-Saturday, January 18 https://polevaultsummit.org/
Thanks for being a part of Lone Star, whether past, present or future. We wouldn't exist if it wasn't for all your support. Please feel free to email or text me with any questions or concerns.

Kris Allison

Owner and Head Coach

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