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Scott Block Junior, Thrower Hanover Park, Ill./Lake Park H.S.
2008 Outdoor: Advanced to 2008 National Championships for Shot Put, Discus and Hammer Throw ... Earned the Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year and first team All GLVC honors ... Twice named GLVC Athlete of the Week on the weeks of (4/1/08) and (4/22/08)... Threw Shot Put, Discus, and Hammer in the 2008 outdoor season ... Threw a personal best and set a new hammer school record by 3.66m (12'0") with a throw of 58.37m (191'06") on May 10 ... Threw a personal best and set a new shot put school record with a throw of 17.41m (57'01.5") on April 19 ... At GLVC Championships on May 3, he set a personal best discus mark and set a new discus school record with a throw of 56.18m (184'04") as well as earning 28 points to help the Cougars to their fifth straight GLVC Outdoor Track and Field Championship title on May 3 ... 2008 Indoor: All-GLVC First Team...GLVC Field Athlete of the Week 1/7/2008...Won the shot put at the GLVC Championships with a throw of 16.62m...Placed 2nd in the weight throw at the GLVC Indoor Championships with a throw of 18.37m...Recorded new school records for both the shot put and the weight throw at the EIU Mega Meet (1/19/08), with throws of 17.46m and 18.91m...2007: Earned All-American honors in the discus with a throw of 50.31 meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships ... GLVC champion in both the shot put and the discus at the Outdoor Championships ... Placed 12th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the shot put ... Previous: Transferred from College of DuPage ... Junior College National Champion in discus and shot put ... High School: Became the 2003 IHSA shot put champion ... Born: August 8, 1985. Major: Kinesiology. |