PODCAST · sports
USC Throws
by Martin Maric
College and professional throwers and coaches discuss (no pun intended) biggest joys, issues, excitements, struggles, benefits and adventures of being a thrower. We bring the highest level insight into our conversations and always leave you with a better understanding and knowledge needed to be a successful high school, college and professional thrower and a coach; or help you avoid it altogether, it's not for everyone. Whether you're a thrower yourself, a coach, a parent of a thrower, a friend ( or an aunt or a grandfather) you are sure to find something valuable in every single episode. Join the most recognizable college throws-team and their exceptional guests on this Throwing Adventure that will take your throwing and coaching to the next level. This is your show!
Episodes
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29. Ethan Dabbs- 2022 USA Javelin Champion, 2x NCAA Runer-up, 2x World Championships qualifier.
Ethan Dabbs, one of the best javelin throwers in NCAAs history, shares with us his journey of ups and downs.
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28. Racquil Broderick "Rock"- USC Discus Record Holder, NCAA Runner-Up
28. Racquil Broderick "Rock"- USC Discus Record Holder, NCAA Runner-Up by Martin Maric
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27. Reese Garland - USC 5th All-Time Discus Thrower
27. Reese Garland - USC 5th All-Time Discus Thrower by Martin Maric
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26. Camryn Rogers - World Champion, Olympian, NCAA record holder.
The best NCAA hammer thrower of all time, World Champion, Canadian Record Holder.... but Camryn is much more than an amazing athlete. She's a college graduate with two degrees who loves what she does and does what she loves. IfgIncredible ambassador for our sport and always happy to stop and chat...
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25. Frantz Kruger - Discus Throw Olympic Medalist and an elite throws coach
Today with us we have a spectacular guest, Frantz Kruger! Olympic bronze Medalist from the Sydney Olympics, where he threw over 3 times 222’ in that competition, one of the highest distances to win a medal at a major championship of all time. He’s the South African and African record holder,...
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24. Nick Ponzio - Olympian, All-American, and all-around interesting guy.
Nicholas James "Nick" Ponzio is an American-born Italian shot putter. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Shot put. All-American Shot Putter in college, graduated from USC in 2017.
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23. Nace Pleško - World's Best Friend
Today with us we have Nace Pleško, one of the best UVA throwers and students of all time. Nace is on his quest currently to travel around all 50 states while working form a van. Originally from Slovenia, came to USA on a Track and Field Scholarships, exceptional athlete, student and one of the…
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22. Thomas Röhler - Olympic Champion in Javelin Throw
Olympic Champion in Javelin, European Champion, 7 times over 90m, 25 times over 87m, 3rd throw of all time with a throw of 93.90m ( Fun fact, longest 2nd place throw by was achieved at that meet by Johannes Vetter 91.56m. Thomas is not only one of the best throwers of all time as you can see by…
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21. Thelma Lind Kristjánsdóttir - UVA Discus Thrower
Welcome, welcome , to UVA Throws Podcast! Today with us we have Thelma Lind Kristjánsdóttir. Thelma is Icelandic National Record holder, 4th on UVA Discus All-Time list and one of our brightest students. Thelma will talk to us today about her experience as UVA Student-athlete, why she chose UVA,...
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20. Ty Kunzman - UVA Hammer Thrower
Can a Division 3 athlete make his way up to D1 Power 5 school? Absolutely! Our guest today, Ty Kunzman, managed to do just that, and more. Ty is one of our best hammer throwers of all time, ranking 6th on the All-Time performance list. He qualified for NCAA East Preliminary Round, threw over 60m...
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19. Jesse Geller - UVA Javelin Thrower
Jesse is our javelin thrower, majoring in commerce and minoring in entrepreneurship and only few weeks from graduation. She’s one of the best students on the team and has a job already lined up for her. She will share with us some very valuable tips of how to be successfully student athlete, how…
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18. Brittany Jones - UVA Shot Put Star
Today with us we have Brittany the Dynamite Jones, roll-model to so many young women throwers out there, a for a good reason; she’s one of our best shot putters of All-Time, 2nd outdoor and 3rd indoor so far, and she’s even top 5 on our hammer throw list. Brittany is even more accomplished off…
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17. Tomasz Majewski - 2x Olympic Champion
Today with us we have Tomasz Majewski who won 10 major Championships medals, including 2x Olympic Gold medals and 2x European Championships Gold medals. Majewski is the only thrower to win 2 Olympics since Perry O’Brian in 1956 and is now serving as Polish Track and Field Vice President. Tomasz...
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16. Ryan Crouser - Olympic Champion
Ryan Crouser, Olympic Champion, 4 time NCAA champion, High School Discus Record Holder… and the list goes on and on. Ryan talked to us about the difficulties he faced this season with training, his mindset during the lockdown, about importance of setting goals in everything that one does, his...
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15. Cait Mautz - UVA Javelin Thrower
Cait Mautz, one of the best javelin throwers of all time at University of Virginia has took some time to talk to us about her experiences and lessons she learned over time. Cait made All-ACC three times, and competed at NCAA 1st rounds Finals three times as well. She’s one of the toughest…
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14. Steve Manz - Miami Ohio Throws Coach
14. Steve Manz - Miami Ohio Throws Coach by Martin Maric
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13. Pobo Efekoro - 5x NCAA All-American
Today with us we have Pobo Efekoro- 5 time All American, ACC Champion, ranked top 10 on UVA’s All-Time lists in every throwing event Indoor and outdoor (except javelin). He’s the strongest man in almost every weight room he walks in and always lights up the room. Competed internationally multiple...
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12. John Godina - NCAA Shot Put Record Holder
Hall of Famer, John Godina! 5 times NCAA Champion, 4 times world champion, two times Olympic medalist and one of the only few that has ever competed at Olympic Games both in discus and shot put for USA, and he did it twice! He’s also a great coach of athletes and coach of coaches, founder of…
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11. Ashley Kovacs - Ohio State Throws Coach
Ashley Kovacs is in her Sixth season as an assistant coach with the Ohio State track and field program. Kovacs mentors the Buckeye throwers and serves as one of the team’s recruiting coordinators. During the 2018-19 indoor and outdoor season she was responsible for the training and guidance of…
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10. Jade Baker - Racial Inequality and things we can do to stop it.
As coaches, as friends, as human beings, it’s hard to have difficult conversations, necessary conversations, with people we deeply care for who are in our lives daily, difficult conversations on any subject; especially those about race. But those are conversations we absolutely have to have if we...
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9. Mariami Kevkhishvili-Machavariani - USF Throws Coach
Mariami Kevkhishvili- Machavariani is a 2x Olympian, 5x NCAA Champion, University of Florida Hall-of-Famer, coach of multiple All-Americans, conference champions …. and the list goes on and on. Mariami will talk to us about University of South Florida, about what is she looking for when it comes…
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8. Stamatia Scarvelis - World Class Hammer Thrower
Even though she just graduated last year, Stamatia has already made her mark on the professional stage. She barely missed Finals at the World Championships in Doha, and is currently in the position that would qualify her for 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. She will talk to us about her experience as a…
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7. Jason Tunks - 3x Olympian
Jason Tunks, 3x Olympian, Canadian Discus Record Holder will talk to us about his early days of throwing, college and professional career, and things he learned along the way that he was glad he did and things he wish he focused more on. He also gives a great advice to young athletes and coaches...
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6. Lucais MacKay - Penn State Throws Coach -
Coach MacKay, Throws coach at Penn State, took his time to talk to us about his coaching philosophy, about his path form a top discus thrower and football in high school to becoming an NCAA Champion in hammer, and what he is looking for in recruits as well as coaching philosophy at this point....
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5. Mo Saatara - UC Berkeley Throws Coach. College recruiting and coaching.
Coach Saatara, Throws coach at Cal Berkeley, will talk to us about how he got into throwing, the successful path to Cal and lessons he learned along the way in coaching. He shares with us his coaching philosophy and his approach to mentoring athletes. Since Saatara joined the Bears, his...
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4. John Newell - University of Tennessee; recruiting, coaching, throwing at all levels.
John Newell talks to us about his recruiting philosophy; his experience as a high school, college, and s professional athlete; struggles of a young coach and things to pay attention to when starting to coach; and many more lessons he learned over more than 2 decades that he has been involved in...
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3. 2/2 Amin Nikfar - College Coaching
Second Part of 2 part interview with Amin Nikfar. He talks about his experience as a high school athlete, collegiate, post-collegiate, and as a college coach. He is highly accomplished college coach who coached at both costs of the country and at the highest levels. He emphasizes importance of...
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3. Amin Nikfar – part 1 - Recruiting, Coaching, Training Philosophy and much more...
Amin talks about his experience as a high school athlete, collegiate, post-collegiate, and as a college coach. He is highly accomplished college coach who coached at both costs of the country and at the highest levels. He emphasizes importance of dedication in an athlete and how impactful coaches...
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2. Marija Bogavac – Foreign student-athlete’s experience, cultural shock, grad school, javelin.
Marija talks about her experience as an international student-athlete, things she wished she knew before coming to USA and how she adjusted to the college life. She talks about the importance of having a clear vision, goal in what you want to do and how important time management in all that is....
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1. Ryan Singer - How to balance college, sports, and personal life. Lessons he learned in college.
Ryan Singer discusses his transition from high school, things he wish he knew right away that helped him cope with college life. How to balance sport, academics, family and social life. Importance of loving what you do, and importance of putting right amount of time and work into what you are...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
College and professional throwers and coaches discuss (no pun intended) biggest joys, issues, excitements, struggles, benefits and adventures of being a thrower. We bring the highest level insight into our conversations and always leave you with a better understanding and knowledge needed to be a successful high school, college and professional thrower and a coach; or help you avoid it altogether, it's not for everyone. Whether you're a thrower yourself, a coach, a parent of a thrower, a friend ( or an aunt or a grandfather) you are sure to find something valuable in every single episode. Join the most recognizable college throws-team and their exceptional guests on this Throwing Adventure that will take your throwing and coaching to the next level. This is your show!
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Martin Maric
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