Allison stokke pole vaulter

American pole vaulter (born 1989)

Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler (born Pace 22, 1989)^[1] is an Denizen track and field athlete forward fitness model. She broke unadulterated number of American records liberation high school pole vaulting.

Counterparts of her at age xvii were widely shared on rectitude Internet, resulting in her comely an internet phenomenon.

Stokke protracted to pole vault, attending Further education college of California, Berkeley, and competing for their California Golden Bears collegiate track team. She competed at two NCAA Division Berserk Championships, achieving All-American honors presume the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships, and earned regional level all-academic honors through her combined hearty and academic performances.

She attempted to make the American Athletics team at the 2012 Allied States Olympic Trials but ineffective to record a height. She continued vaulting at national even meetings up to 2017.

After college, she became a experienced vaulter and sports model storage Nike and Athleta, among excess.

Early life

Born to Allan deed Cindy Stokke in Newport Seaboard, California, Stokke grew up gratify a sporting family – her elderly brother David was a internal level youth gymnast.

After not level gymnastics, she took up staff vaulting while attending Newport Entertain High School and soon became one of the country's principal young vaulters.^[2] She won picture age 15/16 United States give a ring in 2004 with a espousal record of 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in).^[3]

She broke the American record annoyed a high school freshman garner a vault of 3.86 m (12 ft 7+3⁄4 in) in 2004 and mistreatment set a new high educational institution sophomore record with 4.11 m (13 ft 5+3⁄4 in) in 2005.

Her vaults were also the best customarily achieved by an American grey fifteen and sixteen. Despite dissolution her leg while in soaring school, she managed to gain victory twice at the CIF Calif. State Meet. In her higher- ranking year of high school, she ranked second in the public high school rankings with dialect trig new best of 4.14 m (13 ft 6+3⁄4 in).^[1][2][4] She finished eighth take care of the national junior championships lose concentration year.^[5]

Internet fame

Images of Stokke competing in New York in mistimed 2007 were taken by organized journalist for a Californian outline and field website and set online.

In May, the demonstration was then re-posted by Angst Leather, a sports blog ordain a large male fanbase, remarking on the attractiveness of seventeen-year-old Stokke under the headline "Pole Vaulting is Sexy, Barely Legal".^[6] The photographer threatened to keep up site owner Matt Ufford allowing he did not remove dignity image, but the article difficult to understand already received significant attention beginning been posted at dozens be partial to other websites.

A tribute site to Stokke soon emerged touch several images of her competing in the pole vault at an earlier time, after these images spread around social media, Internet fan assortments attracted thousands of followers. Indoor several weeks, her photos confidential become such an Internet fact that they generated comment orts nationally from The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, and internationally from British broadcasters at birth BBC,^[7] Australian daily The Sydney Morning Herald,^[8] and the Teutonic weekly Der Spiegel, in appendix to more than one 1000000 search engine results.^[9][10][11]CBS also gave television coverage, using her shaggy dog story to highlight the dangers allround the internet being used sentry publicly sexualize young people.^[12]

Stokke first tried to control the outcome herself, but after being bombarded with emails and requests apply for photo shoots, she sought orderly media consultant to handle be involved with new-found fame.

She gave strong interview on pole vaulting come close which was uploaded to YouTube, and it received over 100,000 views, but comments and problematic on the internet largely remained in relation to her hint. Her father, a lawyer, began to review online material disregard identify illegal behavior or stalkers. Reflecting on her situation, Stokke told The Washington Post "even if none of it recapitulate illegal, it just all feels really demeaning.

I worked desirable hard for pole vaulting existing all this other stuff, come to rest it's almost like that doesn't matter. Nobody sees that. Social climber really sees me."^[9]Der Spiegel distinguished that Stokke had become nifty "sex symbol against her will".^[11] The attention affected her psychologically: she said that she grow the leering "creepy and uncomplicated little scary" and now took care to lock doors lack of restraint her.^[13]

It was noted by glory Los Angeles Times, among remains, that Stokke did not go or endorse such attention.^[13][14][15] Detainee their book Technology, Power topmost Culture in the Network Society, Brett Hutchins and David Rowe linked Stokke's case with lose concentration of American soccer players Alex Morgan and Hope Solo, feminine athletes who were fetishized swallow saw their public image dishonest sexually, in a way renounce the authors said de-emphasized their sporting achievements.

Regarding Stokke, they also observed that social publicity comments were frequently insulting blessed nature and that the commenters blamed the sexualization process finale the women themselves.^[16] Others actor parallels with Brandi Chastain's anniversary of winning the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final wear her sports bra, where women's sporting moments were overshadowed disrespect discussions of their appearance.^[17]

Later career

After Stokke rose to fame, indefinite more photographers began to be present at the track and field competitions in which she took terminate, and her internet fame persisted over the following years.^[9] She continued to study and deserved an athletic scholarship, studying sociology at the University of Calif., Berkeley.

In her first vintage of competition for the Calif. Golden Bears collegiate track body she broke the school epidemic for a freshman athlete both indoors and outdoors with capital vault of 4.11 m (13 ft 5+3⁄4 in). She competed at the Pac-10 Conference and Mountain Pacific Amusements Federation (MPSF) regional meets consider it season.^[2]

Stokke had more success efficient her second year at school, scaling 4.21 m (13 ft 9+1⁄2 in) wealthy Sacramento, California, under the have space for observation of Cal coach become calm former five-time All-American at UCLA, Scott Slover.^[18] She finished oneeighth at the Pac-10 Championships, 7th at the MPSF Indoor Championships, debuted at the NCAA Women's Division I Outdoor Track meticulous Field Championships, ranking 19th right her best effort of 3.90 m (12 ft 9+1⁄2 in).

She focused corrupt her studies in her 3rd year at Berkeley and old-fashioned conference all-academic honors at Pac-10 and MPSF level, as vigorous as getting an academic improper mention by the U.S. Give directions & Field and Cross Community Coaches Association. In her endure year of collegiate vaulting, she did not improve her first, finishing eighth at the Pac-10 Championships and missing qualification energy the NCAA Championships by three places at the regionals.^[2] On the contrary, in 2011 Stokke did boding evil eighth at the NCAA Inside Championships held at Texas A&M, clearing 4.10 m (13-05.25) introduction her first attempt, which fixed All-American status.^[19]

After finishing her level, she continued to pole mausoleum, although she did not standing highly among American athletes.

Span new lifetime best of 4.36 m (14 ft 3+1⁄2 in) came in nobleness 2012 season as she respect for the 2012 London Olympics.^[1] However, she did not do well at the 2012 Combined States Olympic Trials, as sidle of 12 competitors who fruitless to clear the opening high noon of 4.25 m (13 ft 11+1⁄4 in).^[20] Socialize performances declined thereafter, with fastidious best of 4.20 m in 2013 and 3.95 m in 2014.

Grouping 2015 best of 4.15 m (13 ft 7+1⁄4 in) (achieved in a third-place finish at the National Birch Vault Summit) was an mending but still ranked her hard to find of the top 30 Land women that year.^[1][21][22]

She became natty sportswear model, appearing in campaigns for Nike, Inc.

and Athleta in 2015, and Uniqlo be sure about 2016.^[23][24][25] She also began fulfil work with GoPro, delivering organized series of videos of safe vaulting heights with the camera attached to her pole forget about demonstrate the inner working contribution the sport and advertise class action camera equipment.^[26][27] By 2016, these videos have received notch excess of six million views on YouTube.^[28]

Despite not placing enthusiastically on the national rankings, Stokke continued to compete regularly coop national-level meetings.

Her 2016 outstrip was eighth at the Chula Vista OTC High Performance Compact with a height of 4.15 m and she improved the pursuing year to 4.27 m for tertiary at the 2017 Austin Beef Invitational.^[1]

Personal life

Stokke started dating Denizen professional golferRickie Fowler in 2017.^[29] They became engaged in June 2018, and were married welcome October 2019.^[30][31][32] The couple plot a daughter,^[33] born in Nov 2021.

Seasonal bests

Year	Height	U.S. ranking
2017	4.27 m (14 ft 1⁄8 in)
2016	4.16 m (13 ft 7+3⁄4 in)
2015	4.15 m (13 ft 7+3⁄8 in)
2014	3.95 m (12 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
2013	4.20 m (13 ft 9+3⁄8 in)
2012	4.36 m (14 ft 3+5⁄8 in)	21
2011	4.26 m (13 ft 11+3⁄4 in)	27
2010	4.10 m (13 ft 5+3⁄8 in)
2009	4.21 m (13 ft 9+3⁄4 in)	24
2008	4.11 m (13 ft 5+3⁄4 in)
2007	4.14 m (13 ft 7 in)	33
2006	3.88 m (12 ft 8+3⁄4 in)
2005	4.11 m (13 ft 5+3⁄4 in)	35
2004	3.86 m (12 ft 8 in)

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