Nadine O’Connor, 63, gets better and better at the pole vault, leveraging her world-class W60 speed and newfound technical skills to get her skinny butt over the bar. A new San Diego vault Web site carries vaulting video of Nadine, her Del Mar partner Bud Held and a few other studs, including M50 Mike Hogan.

On June 23, UC San Diego coach Creed Stary posted this note on Becca Gillespy’s Pole Vault Power message board:
“Nadine jumped 3.10m (10-2) to break her previous world record of 3.07m at our most recent Team Thor Allcomer’s meet at UCSD. Way to go Nadine!”
Creed Stary, studying to be a doctor while coaching UCSD vaulters, posted what are among the first Web videos of masters track athletes in action. I hope to do the same with video captured at the Hawaii masters nationals in August. At least that’s the plan.
Video of M50 Mike Hogan and M75 Bud Held also are on the Surfside Athletics Web site featuring Nadine’s jumps.