TACOMA — There’s “going out with a bang,” and then there’s what Jaden Marlow did in the 3A Boys Pole Vault at the WIAA Track & Field State Championships on Friday.

The Shorewood junior was down to his final attempt at Mount Tahoma High School, with the bar at 15-00. Interlake’s Lawson Campbell and Cheney’s Alma Smith had already cleared it, and Marlow had one last chance to join them in the next round. After clearing each of his first four heights on the first attempt, he finally had a challenge.

“I haven’t had like, much adversity, so it was good to have a little bit of stuff battling through,” Marlow said.

And he went for it.

Putting all his strength and force into the vault, he got high enough but not far enough to clear it. As gravity pulled him down, he took the bar with him and c

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