{"id":1805,"date":"2017-03-20T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:44:16","slug":"on-his-first-collegiate-javelin-throw-tim-breaks-the-school-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"On his first collegiate javelin throw, Tim breaks the school record."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The picture is an old one &#8211; junior at Stepinac I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neat. At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurricanesports.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=206279562\">University of Miami Hurricanes Invitational Meet<\/a> this past Saturday. Tim was at two Florida meets with his school (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacathletics.com\/sports\/track\/index\">STAC<\/a>) over the winter break. Since he was red-shirted last year as a freshman, this was the first outdoor meet he competed in &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2017\/03\/tim-gets-6th-place-shot-put-finish-in-conference-championship-.html\">having thrown the shot put in the indoor season.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went 159&#8242; on his first throw, breaking the school record by 20 feet. Overall he came a respectable fifth in the meet. He was annoyed that a number of the southern schools competing have been able to throw outdoors while this was just about the first time he threw in months. You can&#8217;t do javelin in the snow&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8e342f5970b-150wi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13383\" title=\"Tim junior javelin\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture is an old one &#8211; junior at Stepinac I think. Neat. At the University of Miami Hurricanes Invitational Meet this past Saturday. Tim was at two Florida meets with his school (STAC) over the winter break. Since he was red-shirted last year as a freshman, this was the first outdoor meet he competed [&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-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13386,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/13386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}