1. Allison Rebecca Stokke Fowler was born on March 22,1989 and is an American track and field athlete and fitness model.
15 Facts About Allison Stokke
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Allison Stokke broke a number of American records for high school pole vaulting.
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Allison Stokke competed at two NCAA Division I Championships, achieving All-American honors at the 2011 NCAA Indoor Championships, and earned regional level all-academic honors through her combined athletic and academic performances.
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Allison Stokke attempted to make the American Olympic team at the 2012 United States Olympic Trials but failed to record a height.
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Allison Stokke continued vaulting at national level meetings up to 2017.
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Allison Stokke's vaults were the best ever achieved by an American aged fifteen and sixteen.
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Allison Stokke finished eighth at the national junior championships that year.
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Images of Allison Stokke competing in New York in early 2007 were taken by a journalist for a Californian track and field website and placed online.
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Allison Stokke initially tried to control the situation herself, but after being bombarded with emails and requests for photo shoots, she sought a media consultant to handle her new-found fame.
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Allison Stokke gave an interview on pole vaulting technique which was uploaded to YouTube, and it received over 100,000 views, but comments and discussion on the internet largely remained in relation to her looks.
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Allison Stokke continued to study and earned an athletic scholarship, studying sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Allison Stokke competed at the Pac-10 Conference and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation regional meets that season.
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Allison Stokke became a sportswear model, appearing in campaigns for Nike, Inc and Athleta in 2015, and Uniqlo in 2016.
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Allison Stokke began to work with GoPro, delivering a series of videos of her vaulting heights with the camera attached to her pole to demonstrate the inner working of the sport and advertise the action camera equipment.
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Allison Stokke started dating American professional golfer Rickie Fowler in 2017.