The couple that pole vaults together, stays together.  Well, maybe that is not exactly how the phrase goes, but for Kasey and Annie Burlingham, it couldn't ring truer.

The couple met at Colfax High School in California, where Kasey was a boys' track and field star, setting virtually every school record in the pole vault.  In their junior year, Annie went out to a track meet and watched Kasey vault, and she was immediately impressed.

Read full story by NCAA.com's Amy Farnum

Modesto Bee (2/25/10)
Love Soars to New Height 

TURLOCK — When CSU Stanislaus junior pole vaulter Kasey Burlingham cleared 18 feet, 8½ inches, to win the NCAA Division II championship last May, his biggest fan couldn't be there to share the moment.

It just wasn't in the budget for Annie Burlingham — herself a college student — to pay her own way to spend a week in Texas with her husband.

Revisit Brian Vanderbeek's story on ModBee.com