For pole vault coaches
Give the Book to the Vaulter Who Earned It
Every runway has one. The kid who kept showing up after a scary fall. The one who finally cleared the bar she stared down all season. You already know which one.
Order a Maggie Awards Set and your club's award program opens. You choose the winners. You hand them the book. We publish their story.
Ten books, $200. Twenty dollars an athlete.
These Maggie Awards were handed out at a July 2026 pole vault camp. The coach picked the winners and wrote a paragraph on each one. Read the feature →
The best thing on the giveaway table
You already buy shirts and medals. Here is what an athlete said about this one:
“Maggie made me feel like I could accomplish anything!” Mikayla Linebarger, who set the US 13-14 age-group record
Christine Brennan, USA Today columnist and bestselling author of On Her Game, calls it “a warm, uplifting story for girls and the families who support them.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “a fine YA novel about perseverance in sports and in life.” CITIUS Mag named it one of the best track and field novels of all time. Foreword by Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi, chapter notes by performance coach Dr. Melissa I. White.
Twenty dollars an athlete, and it is still on her shelf long after the shirt wears out.
How it works
- Order a Maggie Awards Set. Ten books, shipped to the address you give us. This is what opens your program.
- Pick your winners. Courage. Biggest improvement. A fear conquered. An attitude the whole squad noticed. You know your vaulters.
- Present them. In front of the team, with a sentence about why that athlete got it.
- Take the picture and send it. Two minutes on your phone.
- We write your club up. Your feature goes on the Grain Valley Publishing blog and out on social, and we send you the link for your parents and your athletic director.
- Give us one name. If it worked at your place, tell us one other coach who should hear about it.
That is the loop. Your vaulters end up on a national blog holding a book they earned, and your club gets a story that travels.
What arrives
- 10 copies of Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, second edition
- The coach kit: the four award categories, a short presentation script, and where to send your photo
Who it's for
Middle school, high school, college, club and camp. Reads at grade 5 and up. No profanity, no sexual content, so you can hand it to anyone on your roster and answer any parent who asks what it is.
A coach using it
“Haylee is a hard-working Kansas athlete, just like Maggie. She made big improvements at camp and has a bright future ahead of her with the mentality she showed us.” A camp coach, on one of her Maggie Award winners
Club and school budgets usually move by purchase order. Either way works, and either way I answer.
Need more than ten? Order two sets, or tell us how many athletes you have. Order three weeks ahead so the books arrive before your event.
Not this season? Take the kit.
Send me your name and I'll send the Maggie Awards coach kit: how it works, the four award categories, an order form your athletic director can sign, and a note in the spring when it's time to order.
Send me the coach kitWhen coaches give these
- End-of-season banquet, when the awards you hand out are the ones athletes remember
- Camp, the way it ran in July
- Championship week, for the vaulter whose season doesn't show up in the results
Who you're dealing with
I'm Grant Overstake. I wrote Maggie Vaults Over the Moon and I run Grain Valley Publishing out of Wichita. If you have a question about a set, an invoice, or a photo, you'll be talking to me.
Clubs that have given Maggie Awards
Every club that gives a set gets written up here. See them all →
Winners
This tradition goes back to the novel's first release in 2012. Hundreds of campers have earned one since, so you'll spot both the original cover and the second edition in these photos. Coaches order them as end-of-season track and field awards.
Pole vault clubs and camps across the country hand out Maggie Awards every season.
Questions coaches ask
What is a Maggie Award?
A copy of Maggie Vaults Over the Moon, handed to a vaulter your staff picks. Pole vault clubs, camps and school teams give it as an end-of-season track and field award.
Are there books about pole vaulting written for young athletes?
Maggie Vaults Over the Moon is one. It is a young adult novel about a Kansas girl who takes up the pole vault. It reads at grade 5 and up, with no profanity and no sexual content, so it can go to anyone on your roster.
What comes in a Maggie Awards Set?
Ten copies of the second edition, plus the coach kit: the four award categories, a short presentation script, and where to send your photo.
What does a set cost?
A Maggie Awards Set is $200. Ten athletes, twenty dollars each. Order three weeks ahead so the books arrive before your event.
Order a set. Your club's award day is next.