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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Profile

  • Throws
    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Awka, Nigeria
    Hometown
  • 6'1
    Height
  • Great Divine Gift Secondary School
    High School
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Chinecherem Prosper Nnamdi
Throws
Position
Senior
Class
Awka, Nigeria
Hometown

Summary

Biography

• 2024 Big 12 Outdoor Champion (Javelin)
• 2024 NCAA West Regional Champion (Javelin)
• 2023 Outdoor NCAA Bronze Medalist (Javelin)
• 2023 Big 12 Outdoor Champion (Javelin)
• 2022 Outdoor All-American (Javelin)

• 2022 Big 12 Men's Outstanding Freshman of the Year
• 2022 Big 12 Outdoor Champion (Javelin)
• 2022 NCAA West Regional Champion (Javelin)
• Program Record Holder

 
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2024 Outdoor: Continued his streak and won the conference title for the third consecutive year in a row … Broke the Big 12 Championship-record with a throw of 262-6 on his final attempt after hyperextending his knee the previous week … Took the African Games title with a 271-8 mark, breaking the program record in Ghana and earning a personal best … Broke the NCAA West Preliminary meet record and punched his ticket to Eugune with a mark 270-10 … Tabbed his third All-American honor at the NCAA Championships, placing in fourth … Holds every top 10 mark in Baylor program history … Punched his ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics for Team Nigeria after ranking No. 1 in his home country with his PB mark.  

2023 Outdoor: First Baylor javelin thrower to win back-to-back conference titles ... Won the bronze medal at the NCAA Outdoor Championships after throwing 257-1 in Austin ... Opened the season with his best mark of the season, 262-5, at the Texas Relays for the silver medal ... Also took second at the LSU Invitational and Tom Jones Memorial ... Won the javelin throw competition at the Michael Johnson Invitational.  

2022 Outdoor: Undefeated in college competition in the regular season for the javelin ... Sat at the top of the national DI rankings all but one night during the season ... Won a Big 12 Individual Championship in the javelin throw ... Set Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium record at the Michael Johnson Invitational ... Set program record at Texas Relays, his first collegiate meet ... Crushed his own program record at the NCAA West Regional Preliminary rounds, throwing 266-6 ... Defeated reigning NCAA Javelin Champion at the LSU Invitational in Baton Rouge ... Finished the season as an All-American, placing fifth at the NCAA Championships.

2022 Indoor: Did not compete in any meets.