Anicka Newell at her training facility in Texas on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Supplied Pole vaulters will tell you that attitude determines altitude, and Anicka Newell believes she is living proof.

Anicka Newell (Photo via flygirl93/Instagram) Previously a member of the Texas State track and field team from 2012-15, pole vaulter Anicka Newell is currently on tap to compete at the 2024 Paris ...

WATCH: Competing out of the city and province where her mother's side of the family calls home, pole vaulter Anicka Newell has qualified for the third Olympics of her career with Team Canada ...

Pole vaulting is a sport that requires speed, agility, and strength. If you don’t have all three, you’re bound to fall short—literally. It’s a sport that Team Canada’s Anicka Newell has ...

Canada's Anicka Newell competes in the woman's pole vault final at Carrara Stadium during the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Australia, Friday, April 13, 2018. (Dita Alangkara/The Canadian ...

Join the conversation Canada's Anicka Newell competes during the women's pole vault at the Perche Elite Tour meeting in Rouen, western France on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.Photo by Christophe Ena / AP ...

When she thunders down the pole vault runway at Paris' Stade de France on Aug. 5 — coincidentally, her 31st birthday — she'll be competing in her third Olympic Games. Newell will represent ...

Newell, Canada’s second-ranked women’s vaulter, will compete Tuesday at the Track & Field Takeover in Nathan Phillips Square. The event borrows from similar “street meets” in Europe.

Canada’s Anicka Newell headlines an event that will include elementary school students, standout high schoolers, and collegiate athletes. Robin Bone, a professional pole vaulter for Team Canada ...

It was only then that she took up track and field. Newell, nine years later, still shares the top spot on the Texas State women's pole vault performance list with a vault of 13 feet, 1 1/2 inches.

When a back injury ended Anicka Newell's gymnastics career, she missed the thrill of flying through the air. She found it in pole vault. The 24-year-old makes a living hurling herself up and over ...

Anicka qualified for team Canada at the Olympic Trails in Edmonton Alberta last weekend in the pole vault. “I was happy but, I had not jumped how I wanted to jump at the meet,” said Anicka.