Almost amazing

So, there was some craziness at the HS girls' state track meet I was working at tonight, and I wanted to share it. Now, no one may actually realize how crazy/special this was, since most of my friends don't do much track and field, but I'm going to share it anyway. So, we're (we=dad and me) watching the pole vault, and we watch what appears to be the last competitor miss her final jump at 12'3". So, competition over, right? No. Another girl gets up and starts to do a run through. Now, the only reason she would be allowed to do this was if she hadn't started jumping yet, which she hadn't. Do you understand this? This is the state finals, and this jumper passed on all the heights below 12'6", and all of the other competitors could not make that height. And she's starting there. She procedes to clear 12'6" on her first jump by a good foot. Keep in mind, she tied for the state record last year at 12'9". She moves the bar to 13'0", and clears it easily. She then moves it to 13'6", and clears it with inches to spare. Now, she qualified in the regionals at 13'9", which happens to also be the national record. So, what does she do? She moves the bar to 14'. So, instead of trying to tie the national record, which she knows she can do, she tries to break it, even though she only cleared her 13'6" jump by about 3 inches. 3 misses later, no national record was achieved. I know the more attempts you do, the more tired you get, but how can you not make sure you at least tie the national record?

Oh yeah, for what it's worth, this girl's only a junior. She's got another year of utter domination left.