Pole Vaulters Chasing Same Goal From Opposite Ends of Sun Devil Careers

TEMPE, Ariz. – Nathan Hiett hasn't enjoyed the best luck at NCAA regional meets.

"In the other three combined, I have made one bar," the Sun Devil senior said. "Freshman year, I was just a freshman and I wasn't very good so I wasn't too upset about that. Sophomore year, we had a whole bunch of lightning delays, one after the other, and I couldn't keep it together. Junior year, I had a fractured pelvis going into it so I hadn't trained for weeks and weeks and weeks. I made one bar and then I couldn't even get down the runway."

Hiett's luck may be changing, though.

At the Pac-12 Championships in Palo Alto, California, earlier this month, he felt awful again. He had tightness in his hamstrings,…