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FINDING HER FUTURE
Great Bend senior Ball signs to pole vault for Fort Hays State University
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Great Bend High School senior Selam Ball signs to compete with the Fort Hays State University track and field team on Friday afternoon. She is joined by her parents, Mark (seated, right) and Krista (seated, left) Ball, as well as GBHS head track and field coach Todd Kaiser (standing, left), assistant coaches Brett Middleton (standing, center) and Bo Black (standing, right). - photo by Kevin Price Great Bend Tribune
Great Bend High School’s Selam Ball has vaulted herself straight to a college team.Ball has signed to pole vault for the Fort Hays State University track and field team.Ball said there were a few schools looking into getting her on their team, but Fort Hays State felt like the best fit for her future.“I had a lot of smaller schools that were interested in me,” Ball said. “I looked into them, but at the same time, I was thinking of my education because that’s what I want to focus on in college, and I want to go to be a dentist. I visited Hays and when I visited there, they have a good pre-dental program that’s a bio-chem program that I want to do.“It was a good fit for pole vault, track and academic as well.