How high an IQ does one need to jump over a stick?
How high an IQ does one need to jump over a stick?
Oh You Know wrote:
Metric Miler wrote:Excuse me if I am being dim, but how can you decide you are professional if you have no sponsorship? You are professional when paid to do something, it's an amateur hobby until then, surely? The only difference between Vashti and an "amateur" collegiate athlete is that she doesn't go to college.
She just won 40k for winning world indoors and 5k for US indoors in the past week. I think that qualifies as being a professional.
So she was already professional? Then what changes now?
How high of an IQ does one need to run and turn left......... On an oval?
Check1234 wrote:
How high an IQ does one need to jump over a stick?
she just accepted a contract from nike according to flotrack
Well, she seemed quite mature and intelligent in the NBCSN interview right after the win. I was impressed with her composure for a high school kid. I didn't watch the Let's Run interview because I just cringe at those.
I didn't see anything online about the value of Prandini's deal with Puma, but she is a potential four event athlete (100-200-lj-4x100). Vashti Cunningham is the son of the great Randall Cunningham and at 18 already a world indoor champion, but I have to say that $1.5 million per year for a high jumper who has never jumped 2m seems pie in the sky.
Do you even understand what Blanka Vlasic earns?
Made over $6M in 2012 with adidas sponsorship alone. Think of high jumpers like tennis players - they have cross functional appeal with their long frames.. do great in modeling.
Word in the industry is Vashti will be earning well past $1M/USD per year until 2024.
Everybody likes to toss around major deals for these young signees and in the sprints is one thing but the high jump is a highly limiting event and while I hope Vashti ends up the greatest high jumper of all time she isn't going to move the needle selling product - high jump shoes not exactly big sellers.
All these deals are made to sound as if the athlete hits every bonus like world record and Olympic or World title. Only 7 Diamond League high jumps a year and any shoe company worth its salt will realize this is a gal who still has to develop her body into a grown woman's. Her brother was a HS phenom and what did he do this year? He was only 4 inches above his sis at NCAA's vs USATF as he fills out his body. Also how many high jumpers have not suffered leg injuries and missed major time over the past 3-4 years so thats another limiting factor in the high jump. Just look at our top American jumpers of the past 10-15 years on women's side. Once expenses are taken out and a reduction or 2 for injury years things on the contract front are not so exciting especially compared to a college scholarship value which includes free travel with free meals and free medical all of which athletes have to start paying for and that doesn't even include taxes which are a huge chunk when all are taken out.
Dad gave her a car that has a dealers list price of about $95,000 for setting a PR at Pan Am Jrs,
This getting paid for being a pro thing has a bit means different thing for different people.
comments in the press wrote:
Dad gave her a car that has a dealers list price of about $95,000 for setting a PR at Pan Am Jrs,
This getting paid for being a pro thing has a bit means different thing for different people.
Yeah that car story was kinda messed up. Made her sound like a brat the way the article retold how she demanded it
bloviating wrote:
This is a mistake on her part. Her famous dad has done a great job up to this point but the smart thing would be to accept that in order for his daughter to continue progressing they should entrust her next four years to somebody more knowledge, like Rovelto or Kyprianou, and a competent collegiate strength and conditioning program. The dad stuff he has her do right now is beyond unorthodox. The Eastern Europeans will take her lunch money outdoors.
I *love your coach-bashing! Bravo!
I'm sorry... Vashti is rocking it and you are nit-picking?
She has a very bright future and Randall Cunningham has done a fine job coaching her to this point - WOULDN'T YOU SAY????
Has Vashti hit her ceiling? Of course not. Would she benefit from blowing up her pop with weight training? Obviously. But she's still developing and has so much spring she's getting it done. My expert HJ sources say she could hit 7 feet and no one else really can do that in women's HJ.
Just send Randall Sr. a congratulations note that his two kids are not in another sport. He has done great things for Track and Field.
Makes me wonder what is the total earned by track professionals in each track and field discipline? How many of them are there per event. Then you could know the average.
Tom
jjjjjj wrote:
1.96m is not exactly that 2.03m that someone on the board was asserting was an absolute certainty here, but world indoor gold at 18, even against a weaker field, is tremendous. I think in nearly all cases in track and field that it is a mistake to go pro and skip the college track and field experience, but she is obviously a gamer who jumps her best when it counts and she will be a finalist and probably even a contender for medals for the next ten years, if not more.
She\'s mature, though dad might have told her not to pre-announce or to mention the company before negotiations took place.
You never know. Vashti could go on to jump 2.1 or never go higher than 2 meters again.
Age 18 record 2.01 Heike Balck - 1989
Never really jumped any higher. Her next best year was 1997 with a 1.94
Retired in 2000 with a best that year of 1.88.
Best finish 3rd 1991 indoor Worlds
Best of luck to Vashti though.
Glad she didn't pick U$C and wow didn't know who Blanka Vlasic was looked at her pictures and damn she is beautiful just made her my screen saver on my computer :)
giggle and a hair toss wrote:
Has Vashti hit her ceiling? Of course not. Would she benefit from blowing up her pop with weight training? Obviously. But she's still developing and has so much spring she's getting it done. My expert HJ sources say she could hit 7 feet and no one else really can do that in women's HJ.
7 feet? As in 2.13m? No, you are right, nobody can do that in the women's high jump.
Hard to believe Vlasic has on the scene since 2000 and Amy Acuff turned 40last summer.
Vashti has such a slim frame. Is there a chance with age she'll grow out of it And lose that advantage?
Gffhj wrote:
Vashti has such a slim frame. Is there a chance with age she'll grow out of it And lose that advantage?
I don't know. High jump women, even at an older age, tend to have very slim frames. I imagine she won't change too much. But her technique will improve, and she will jump 7 ft.
A big plus in signing is the utter lack of doping drama with HJers. Even the Russians seem to avoid the taint of doping in this event (though it would seem likely they have done it).
Contrast with the lag in signing Berian.