Junior Ryan Loughney (Ashland) broke the Division II National Championships meet record on Thursday with a first round attempt of 68.04m. He then improved to 70.15m in the second round and had two more attempts over the old meet record, leading the com...
May 27th 2011, 10:24am
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An action packed day in Germany ended with a world record by crowd favorite Betty Heidler. The annual Hallesche Werfertage meeting in Halle, Germany always brings together the world's best throwers and today was no exception. Below is a summary of the ...
May 21st 2011, 4:58pm
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The fields for the NCAA Preliminary round have been announced with 96 men qualifying for next weekend's preliminary rounds. The qualifiers are split between the East and West region based on geographic location. The top 12 finishers in each region will...
May 19th 2011, 7:07pm
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The fields for the NCAA Preliminary round have been announced with 96 women qualifying for next weekend's preliminary rounds. The qualifiers are split between the East and West region based on geographic location. The top 12 finishers in each region wi...
May 19th 2011, 6:59pm
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With most athletes competing at their conference championships over the weekend, it was the one athlete not at a conference meet that turned in the best results. NCAA leader Marcel Lomnicky (Virginia Tech) had his conference meet last month and compete...
May 16th 2011, 1:07pm
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With one week to go before most of the major conference championships, many of the nation's top athletes took the weekend off to rest and focus. Ryan Loughney (Ashland) improved his personal best again and improved his D2 leading mark to 69.89m. Number...
May 10th 2011, 12:36pm
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After a week-long vacation, CollegeHammer.com is back. First, let's talk about this week's action led by the results at the Drake Relays. There, Gwen Berry (Southern Illinois) stole the show with a personal best and NCAA leading mark of 70.52m. With th...
May 2nd 2011, 6:09pm
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The first major post-collegiate meet of the season took place this weekend with many of the nation's top men and women opening their season at the Mt. SAC Relays. Drew Loftin and Chris Rohr both threw well to place as the top Americans, while Amber Cam...
Many of the top athletes faced each other this weekend at the Spec Towns Invitational in Georgia and the Texas Relays in Austin. The Hokies were the top collegiate throwers in Georgia, led by Marcel Lomnicky (Virginia Tech) and Dorotea Habazin (Virgini...
The outdoor season is just underway and the leaders keep shifting every week. This weekend results in new leaders in nearly every category on the men's side. On the men's side, 2009 NCAA Champion Marcel Lomnicky (Virginia Tech) added more than five met...