How do I keep ooming up with these crazy titles?
Anyway, as promised, I'm dividing up the results (from my computer disaster-enforced 3 weeks of absence) into 4 event groups.
Already done are the Jumps and Sprints!
This one is on the Throws---and as you can tell by the title, the Hammer Throw will be featured!
Last will be the Distances, where the Two Mile will get the headlines!
So, we seem to have a "New Guard" when it comes to the Hammer Throw!
At least on the female side!
Speaking of the US only, the likes of Amber Campbell & Amanda Bingson have been replaced by Maggie Ewen, DeAnna Price, and Brooke Andersen!
But Hey, welcome to the fray!!
Andersen's emergence this season especially enthralls!
She's PR'ed this season by close to 20 feet---and she doesn't seem to be done yet!
And what about Ewen?
Amazing athlete, in that she's now maybe as good a Shot Putter as she is HT'er!
And even the Discus has improved a lot for her!
(Will the Javelin be next??)
Onward to this blog's "raison d'etre"!!
Brooke Andersen is still a Collegiate!
So her improvements are more notable than if she were a Pro athlete!
Thus her recent HT of 243-5 makes her 2nd A-T Collegiate, moving her up from 5th!
And she moves from 10th A-T US to 5th, tied with 1 other!
Maggie Ewen was 2nd, best mark of 239-6!
Then Ewen went to work!
Her PAC-12 winner measured 244-0!
It broke the Meet Record!
Alyssa Wilson, better known as a Shot Putter, is suddenly a 218-3 HT'er, as she finished 2nd with that mark!
Ewen added the SP and DT, her 63-0.75 getting another Meet Record.
Her DT winner was 196-2!
Previously, she'd upped her Shot PR to 63-10.25 at the Tucson meet!!
It's the Collegiate Record, and breaks her own Senior Class Record as well!
Her series was interesting also!
She had 3 Puts at 18.45 or 18.46 (metrically speaking!), then her winner was exactly one meter farther--19.46!
She moves from 2nd A-T Collegiate, to the Top!
And from 10th to 9th A-T US!
DeAnna Price is another to watch---on the WORLD scene!!
Her HT of 249-2 at a meet in Indiana moves her from 4th A-T US to 2nd!
But she also made the World list, as she's 22nd A-T there!!
Another Hammerer of note--and he's just a HS Soph!!--is Trey Knight!
He had a prodigious INdoor season with the Weight Throw!
And now he's continuing OUTdoors with the WT's sidekick, the Hammer!
His latest PR measured 228-6!
This--IMHO--doesn't come close to his PR potential, as measured against his WT accomplishments!
Much more room for improvement here!!
His mark still leaves him about 15 feet shy of the Soph Class Record!
And he's 2.5 feet short of making my HS list!!
Stay tuned!
Raven Saunders continues her re-emergence from her personal woes of earlier this year!
She reached 64-0.25 recently, easily beating Jessica Ramsey's 59-5.75!
At that same meet, in 2 separate comps, it seems, Gwen Berry threw the Hammer 239-0, while Great Britain's Sophie Hitchon reached 240-3!
The Shanghai DL saw Saunders's 61-1.50 take 2nd to Lijiao Gong's 65-7 World Leader!
Way back in 8th came the venerable Valerie Adams, who could only reach 59-1.25!!
Just a bad day??
Another Chinese to perform good there was Huihui Lu.
Her Javelin winner of 219-4 broke her own Meet Record!
Ryan Crouser has been HOT of late!
At Drake, his SP went out 72-2.50 from the ring!
But he also had FIVE fouls!!
That one good toss defeated Tom Walsh's 71-7.25!
Walsh, however, only fouled once, with his 5 fair throws all measuring over 70 feet!!
So he wins the Best Series prize!!
Crouser made up for those fouls at a meet in Chula Vista!
He reached 72-9.75, and had FOUR over 72 feet!!
In fact, all 6 measured at least 70-9.75!!
Doha saw Sandra Perkovic nail a LONG Discus Throw--234-2!!
It missed her PR by just 1 inch, but gets her the Meet Record!!
Yaime Perez's 219-3 took Silver!
Mentioning earlier Throwers who have moved out from their specialties, we seem to have 2 others who are doing the same!
Denzel Comenentia seemed to be best at the Hammer, with a 250-3 PR!
But he recently improved his SP mark to 68-6 at the SEC!
This makes him 20th A-T Collegiate, tied with 1 other!
He also did the HT, his 249-1 getting the SEC Meet Record!
Second there was Anders Eriksson's 243-5!
This makes him 21st A-T Collegiate!
Alyssa Wilson is another to spread her wings!
In HS, she of course made the Shot Put her own, breaking Raven Saunders's HSR's, IN & OUT!!
But she's also quite adept at other Throws!
Now a Frosh at UCLA, she nailed 3 winners at the UCLA-USC Dual meet!!
Her SP went out 55-8.25!
(She has yet to PR in that event!)
She also won the DT with 180-9, and the HT with her 205-4!!
Already mentioned (See above!) was her HT mark of 218-3!
Another Maggie Ewen in the making??
Another to set an SEC Meet Record was Anderson Peters in the JT!
His winning mark was 269-2!
Ioannis Kyriazis's 263-6 took 2nd!
But the best JT comp came at Doha's DL!
Johannes Vetter's 1st round spear chuck went out 300-5!!
But then Thomas Rohler sent his out 301-1 in Round 2 for the winner!
This is the first time two went over 300 in the same meet, thus giving Vetter the best 2nd Place mark!
Andres Hofmann took the best 3rd Place prize with his 295-6!!
Not a PR, however!
In fourth came Neeraj Chopra's 286-10.
This breaks his own National Record of India!!
The Multi's saw some good action these past 3 weeks!
An old mark (from a Virginia meet on April 20 & 21) is Tim Ehrhardt's 8044 Decathlon winner there!
In a meet in Italy, Martin Roe's 8228 winner gave him Norway's National Record!
In the Heptathlon, Erica Bougard's 6327 (at that same Italy meet!) took the World lead!!
Alex Gochenour took runner-up with her 6063.
The SEC winner was Tyra Gittens's 6074!
This makes her 18th A-T Collegiate!
The Big 10 had an interesting name take 2nd in its Hept!
Georgia Ellenwood was the winner with her 6173!
This is the Meet Record, and makes her 9th A-T Collegiate!!
But 2nd went to the inimitable Ayesha Champagne!!
You might remember I made a big to-do about her ALLEGED INdoor LJ mark of 21-6.25, or 6.56 metric!
While not absolutely proven false, it was never confirmed 100% as being real either!
She'd never been over about 5.80 before!
The Jamaican IS a good Javelin Thrower, however!
And her 162-6 there helped propel her to a score of 5821, taking 2nd!
I didn't see her complete set of marks, so have no idea what her LJ measured, but I'd bet my life that it was well below 6 meters--let alone 6.56!!
Haley Crouser FINALLY got a new PR in the JT!
She won the Big 12 meet with her 182-7, her first improvement since 2012!!
That meet saw a couple of other good Throws!
Alexandra Emilianov's DT mark of 197-8 fell just 6 inches shy of making my Collegiate DDD!
In the HT, Janae Krasanavoid's 223-9 winner makes her 21st A-T Collegiate!
High Schoolers had several good marks, mostly in their State meets or regionals!
At Mt SAC, Sydney Juszczyk had a JT of 161-8.
Just a Frosh, she misses my HS list by 13 inches!
Payden Montana's SP mark of 50-7 took 2018's OUTdoor lead!
By the way, Montana's mark came at the Penn Relays!!
Skylar Ciccolini was busy!
At Penn, her 172-2 JT moved her from 19th A-T HS to 11th!
Then she raised that to 173-1, but she remains 11th on the list!
Tzuriel Pedrigo's JT of 238-6 moves him from 7th A-T HS to 5th!
In the Oregon State meet, Shelby Moran's DT measured 179-7.
This makes her 16th A-T HS, tied with 1 other!
In the Illinois affair, John Meyer's SP of 70-6.50 misses my HS list by just one half inch!!
In Oklahoma, Patrick Larrison took over the 2018 lead in the DT with his 210-9!
Other good marks---
At Mt SAC, Alex Young reached 249-10 in the Hammer Throw.
This moves him from 24th A-T US all the way to 12th!
Jordan Geist won the Tucson SP with his 66-11.50!!
Daniel Haugh's HT of 241-2 misses my Collegiate DDD by 7 inches!
At the Indiana meet, Payton Otterdahl's SP mark of 68-7 makes him 19th A-T Collegiate!
He's a Junior at North Dakota State!
He improved to 68-9.25 at his Conference meet (Summit League), but he remains 19th on the list!
Rudy Winkler's HT of 242-3 gets him the ACC Meet Record!
Tripp Piperi won the Big 12 SP with 66-3!
While it's not a Throws-related event, I want to close this post by telling you of an announcement by Pole Vaulter Mary Saxer that she's retired from the sport!!
In a lengthy but heartfelt statement, she said she takes great pride that she was the first HS Woman to clear 14 feet!
She also said she's pregnant, with the baby due in November!!
Congratulations to this great athlete, and here's hoping she finds a new niche in which to soar!!
See you soon with my last 3-week wrap-up, covering the Distances!!
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