# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-suhr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:39:16.001Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-suhr"
name: "Rick Suhr"
slug: "rick-suhr"
description: "Richard \"Rick\" Suhr is an American Olympic level pole vaulting coach in Rochester, New York who coached the #1 women's vaulter in the World from beginner to World #1 two years in a row. He has been awarded the National Coach of the Year for the 2nd consecutive year at the professional level. In the last 8 years, Suhr's athletes have won 18 National Championships and set 16 National Records in the pole vault at the high school, collegiate, and professional levels. Suhr is the only pole vault coach to have received the United States Olympic Committee's Ikkos award. He has received this award twice: 2008, 2012. His most notable athlete, Jennifer Suhr has set the American Pole Vault Record 10 times and won the US National Championships 14 different times and is the only American woman ever to clear 16 feet and has done so 8 different times. Jenn Suhr has jumped the 12 highest heights ever by an American women. She also took first in the U.S. Olympic Trials during which she raised her own American Record in the process. Other athletes include HS National Champions Dan Tierney, and Tiffany Maskulinski."
tagline: "American pole vault coach"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Coach_Rick_Suhr.jpg/330px-Coach_Rick_Suhr.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1967"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.34
  momentum:             7.241379310344828
  historical:           1.537977333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Suhr"
    title: "Rick Suhr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7331790"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations