Ole Miss track and field’s Samara McConnell became a pole-vaulter by accident
Talk of Champions
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🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Ole Miss shot-putter Mensi Stiff sits down with her track and field teammate, Samara McConnell, to discuss her five seasons pole-vaulting for the Rebels, Riley Gaines, the positives and negatives of social media and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so Sam's on the pole vault team here in case you don't know. |
| 0:13.6 | She's a fifth year. |
| 0:14.6 | Ooh, super senior. |
| 0:15.6 | She is. |
| 0:16.6 | She's a super senior, but she's the best. |
| 0:18.6 | I love her so much. |
| 0:20.6 | So yeah, she's a pole vaulter. So tell us, like, how you got into bull vaulting. |
| 0:24.4 | I was a gymnast for 11 years. |
| 0:27.6 | I feel like, that's really common because MC's a gymnast. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.3 | Logan was a gymnast. |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah. It's really common for pole vaulters. |
| 0:33.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.1 | It's kind of like the same background, same things. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah. It's kind of like the same background, same things. Yeah. We're doing flips basically. |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.3 | But not really. |
| 0:41.3 | But 11 years. |
| 0:42.3 | And then after, I was actually going to be a Heptathlete. |
| 0:45.3 | I think I said that right. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay, cool. |
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