Where the bar keeps rising: How Derek Miles turned Olympic lessons into a national pole vault power at USD

Where the bar keeps rising: How Derek Miles turned Olympic lessons into a national pole vault power at USD

VERMILLION — Derek Miles hasn’t spent much time sifting through the parallels between his pole vaulting career and the program he’s spent the last 20-plus years building at the University of South Dakota, but they are impossible to overlook. Miles was by no means the flashiest, most talented vaulter during his decade-long foray as an international competitor. Instead, he paved his way through hard work, establishing a level of consistency that c…