{"id":1374,"date":"2019-02-19T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:17:14","slug":"how-big-are-collegiate-shot-put-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"How big are collegiate shot put athletes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pretty big. Tim is 5&#8217;9&#8243; and a wide body &#8211; here he is with Rickssen Opont, his STAC (St. Thomas Aquinas College) shot put teammate. Tim is a good shot putter, but Rickssen is one of the best collegiate throwers in the Country! In fact this past summer Rickssen (who is a great kid) represented Haiti in the Caribbean Championships and came 8th overall. The men ahead of him were mostly on the professional track and field circuit. Pretty awesome for a college senior. The pictures are from the STAC track and field awards dinner Sunday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something&#8217;s funny&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4e5200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1000435\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4e5200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4e5200d-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"P1000435\"><\/a><br>And here&#8217;s Rickssen with Brigid &#8211; hahaha. he outweighs her by 160-170lbs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4ef200d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13038\" title=\"P1000437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4ef200d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e4ef200d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Rickssen is a big dude. Here he is the day before at the Conference Indoor Championship. He needs to do more work on his thighs&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e518200d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13035\" title=\"P1000382 (2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e518200d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3c3e518200d-500wi-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty big. Tim is 5&#8217;9&#8243; and a wide body &#8211; here he is with Rickssen Opont, his STAC (St. Thomas Aquinas College) shot put teammate. Tim is a good shot putter, but Rickssen is one of the best collegiate throwers in the Country! In fact this past summer Rickssen (who is a great kid) represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13043,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}