Votapka third in NAIA nationals to close out college career

Lane Votapka closed out his college track and field career with a pole vault of 4.90 meters, or 16’ 3/4”, at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics track and field national championships May 21-23 in Edwardsville, IL, to place third among all NAIA vaulters.

Votapka, a 2005 Fallbrook High School graduate who attended Point Loma Nazarene University, tied for the second-highest pole vault at the NAIA nationals, although Brian Schenavar was awarded second place on fewer missed jumps at that level.

Although Jordan Savidge of Azusa Pacific University won the NAIA championship as well...