EUGENE, Ore. – Former Texas State track and field athlete Logan Cunningham celebrated Independence Day in grand style at Hayward Field during the United States Olympic Trials. The Smithson Valley, Texas native claimed one of the three spots on the U.S. Olympic Team in the pole vault.
Cunningham became just the seventh Bobcat ever to qualify for the Olympics and will the third to represent the Red, White and Blue, joining Charles Austin (1992, 1996, 2000) and Mike Hazel (2008).
Before competing for a spot to make it to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cunningham first had to make it out of the qualifying round held Saturday afternoon.