{"id":1810,"date":"2017-03-02T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:45:27","slug":"tim-gets-6th-place-shot-put-finish-in-conference-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1810","title":{"rendered":"Tim gets 6th place shot put finish in Conference Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last Friday. Tim made the finals at #7 (of eight; they started with 19 throwers). And then the #8 seed hit a good throw so Tim was in 8th place and out of point scoring for his college. Below is his last throw, which pushed him into 6th place (40&#8217;2&#8243;) and got St. Thomas Aquinas College (STAC) one point. I let the video run and you can see them measuring the throw with a laser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ph4750WT2AY\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately STAC came second place out of eight colleges. For Tim, getting 6th place is quite decent; the shot is not his best event; he&#8217;s looking forward to the outdoor season and throwing the javelin. Below is a picture of Tim and the other four throwers (two on the girls team, duh) at STAC. I told them we&#8217;d do a smiling picture and then a tough looking picture. The one below is not the smiling one!<\/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\/2017\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8dba8b5970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13388\" title=\"20170224_200225 (2)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8dba8b5970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8dba8b5970b-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" 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\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday. Tim made the finals at #7 (of eight; they started with 19 throwers). And then the #8 seed hit a good throw so Tim was in 8th place and out of point scoring for his college. Below is his last throw, which pushed him into 6th place (40&#8217;2&#8243;) and got St. Thomas Aquinas [&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-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","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=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13389,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}