Verne Wolfe

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Verne Wolfe (born July 14, 1922 in Garber , Garfield County , Oklahoma , † October 25, 2000 in Vista , California ) was an American pole vaulter and one of the most successful athletics coaches . Its athletes set 30 world records and won 6 gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Life

Wolf grew up in California, in 1940 after high school as a pole vaulter received a competitive sports scholarship at the University of Southern California . In 1942 he volunteered for the paratroopers and mainly served behind enemy lines in Europe. In 1946 he continued his studies, jumped 4.27 m with a bamboo stick , successfully completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in education, and began as a high school teacher and trainer in Torrance , California in 1952 . According to the amateur regulations of the time , he was considered a professional athlete as a trainer and had to end his active career. In 1955 he moved to North Phoenix High. Since three of his high school athletes set American youth records in discus , shot put and pole vault (including the later world record holder in the shot put, Dallas Long ), the colleges became aware of the aspiring coach. The special thing about him was that he used strength training very specifically with 15-year-olds. He moved to San José State University at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills for one year at a time , before coming to the University of Southern California as head coach in 1963, where he stayed until 1984. Here his athletes won 29 NCAA university championships and everything there was to be won. These included u. a. the Olympic champions

But he also trained OJ Simpson , Lennox Miller , Clancy Edwards , James Sanford . USC's 4-by-110-yard season was faster than the world record in 1967 (albeit with a Jamaican). In 1996, Wolfe was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame . He died as a result of a fall in a Parkinson's care home in Vista, California .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ news.usc.edu on . March 10, 2017.
  2. ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . No. 1 , year 18, 1988, p. 43-47 .
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : The American sport between isolationism and internationalism . In: competitive sport . No. 2 , year 18, 1988, p. 47-50 .
  4. ↑ nytimes.com on . March 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ usctrackandfield.com (PDF) on. March 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ articles.latimes.com on . March 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wolfe, Verne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athletics coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Garber , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2000
Place of death Vista , California