Scott Houston - Hey guys, I am Scott Houston, and without finding Coach Morell I would not be where I am today!

I started in the 8th grade and only jumped 8'6. Then I moved up to North
Carolina and started working with Coach after my first indoor season. I missed qualifying indoors my freshman year by 6 inches only jumping 11 feet. I was lucky enough to be competing at a rival high school and met Coach Morell at a track meet. I started to work with him at Western Guilford high on the weekends and began to learn the positions of the vault. I ended my freshman season with a personal record of 13’1, new school record, and placed 6th at the state track meet.

To me it was obvious that Coach Morell had the resources and the desire to help others improve in pole vaulting. Interested in my new found love for pole vaulting I enrolled in his summer camp and learned many things about the vault. Not only does he help you learn the event but he provides drills and apparatuses that you can use/build at home or at your high school. Plus I met a bunch of really cool vaulters at camp.

I continued to work with Coach Morell and had great success as a high school vaulter, setting many records and jumping on the national stage. One of the greatest things Coach Morell has done for me isn’t all of the jump sessions, or all of the poles he has, or even the coaching advance (though that does help a little), it’s that he continues to encourage me, and reminding me when the rough times hit, and that is often, not to worry and just keep jumping. “The jumping will work itself out.”

I continue to work with him, trying to learn while doing so, as he persists to try and teach the most effective technique for vaulting to anyone who is willing to listen. Coach is physically experienced, though it may not be visibly apparent, he has jumped over 17 feet himself. In his love for the sport he has traveled around the country and to Canada speaking with the best vaulters and coaches from all of over the world. He truly has not only set out to help everyone, but set out to gain as much knowledge in to jumping the most efficient way possible.

My personal record is now 17’6.25” and I am a sophomore (I guess junior now because I just finished my last exam) and vault for the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I owe all of my vaulting success to Morell, and hopefully I can give back and support the vaulting community.

Addison Johnson - I started vaulting in the 10th grade which was the first year of our new high school. We did not have a coach that knew anything about pole vaulting so my friend and I had to teach ourselves from watching videos on the internet. My personal best that year was was 8' 6".

My 11th grade year someone told me about Vaulthouse.com and Coach Morell. I started attending Coach Morell's Sunday clinics in January (It started snowing during my first visit) and I was still only jumping around 8' 6" to 9'. I worked with Coach Morell almost every weekend he held his clinics. When the season started I qualified for regionals during our second track meet with a height of 11' 6".

As the season was coming to and end and it was time for the regional championship, I entered the meet seated in 5th position. They only take the top 4 from each region to the State meet, therefore my goal was to just move up at least one position. However, when the regionals were over I was the Mid-East Regional Champion with a height of 13'. I own this all to Coach Morell and Vaulthouse.com.