Jenn Suhr wanted to surprise her young friend Amalie Brewer, and Suhr knew just how to do it.
Brewer, an aspiring pole vaulter at Glen Rose High School, recently was cleared to resume training after months of cancer treatments. Suhr, who knows a little bit about pole vaulting — she’s the reigning Olympic women’s champion and shattered a world record at an indoor meet in January — decided to drop by Brewer’s high school in North Texas before making her way to this week’s Texas Relays.