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Pole vault event has UA flavor

FAYETTEVILLE -- Ariel Voskamp Lieghio is a Cabot native, but she won the pole vault title at the Irish National Indoor Championships on March 1 in Dublin.

Lieghio, a four-time All-American at the University of Arkansas from 2014-16, now has dual citizenship for the United States and Ireland because she married an Irishman, Anthony Lieghio, who was a distance runner for the Razorbacks.

"I spent a year in Ireland getting my dual citizenship stuff in order, getting in some training and trying to find my place in their track and field system," Lieghio said. "Now for the next Olympics [in 2021] I'll declare for Ireland.