Scottie Vines and his family have a West Coast road trip planned next month that figures to be a lot more exciting than most summer vacations.
De Beque’s Scottie Vines clears 7 feet in the high jump during the final day of the Colorado high school state track and field meet at Jeffco Stadium on Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Lakewood, Colorado.
Vines will rank as the favorite in the U-20 nationals by virtue of having the current world-best U-20 mark of 7 feet, 4.25 inches, which he’s hit twice. That mark also qualified him for the Olympic Trials. “I felt pretty good,” Vines said. “The wind, you could feel it on your back and it was like pushing me into the bar. I tried moving my mark back to compensate. I can’t complain. The atmosphere was great. I’m happy with what I did this season, I’m satisfied, and just happy that I had all these people come out to watch me. It was just really fun.”
Also in the crowd was an Olympic medalist. Matt Hemingway, Vines’ mentor, set a Colorado high school record at Buena Vista at 7-4 in 1991 that Vines broke this year. Hemingway, who took silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics, concedes Vines will be favored at the U-20 championships, but he’d probably have to jump 7-7 or 7-8 to make this year’s Olympic team. He wants Vines to focus on gaining experience at the trials.
“Even going to CU and the conference they’re in, Scottie will be really competitive his freshman year,” Hemingway said. “He’s got to have a vision that’s much bigger and much broader than just what’s in front of him.” De Beque is a small town on the Western Slope between Rifle and Grand Junction. Vines’ graduating class has four students, but his shoes were covered with signatures of friends, schoolmates and teachers.
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