{"id":1599,"date":"2018-03-04T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:26:22","slug":"shot-put-tim-faranda-rickssen-oponte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1599","title":{"rendered":"Shot put: Tim Faranda &#038; Rickssen Oponte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I already posted here about Tim&#8217;s school winning their Conference Championship. The two throwers on the men&#8217;s team are Tim &#8211; who is good &#8211; but Rickssen is REALLY good. Like ranked #7 in the state among college shot throwers. Here are a couple pictures and then videos of both Tim and Rickssen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of Tim pictures from the Conference Championship &#8211; he finished in the top one-third among NY State college shot putters. Which I think (note bias) is pretty good since his best event is the javelin, and he&#8217;s coming off October hernia surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course indoor throwing events are almost always done inside a cage and off to the side of the main track. Note funny tights Tim is wearing &#8211; not sure what that&#8217;s about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c95562d9970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13220\" title=\"20180223_192858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c95562d9970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c95562d9970b-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f8a668970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13219\" title=\"20180223_193428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f8a668970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09f8a668970d-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is Tim&#8217;s best throw &#8211; 12.63 meters, or 41&#8217;5&#8243;. This got him 6th place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already posted here about Tim&#8217;s school winning their Conference Championship. The two throwers on the men&#8217;s team are Tim &#8211; who is good &#8211; but Rickssen is REALLY good. Like ranked #7 in the state among college shot throwers. Here are a couple pictures and then videos of both Tim and Rickssen. A couple [&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-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13221,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/13221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}