{"id":224247,"date":"2021-04-26T07:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224247"},"modified":"2021-04-26T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:24:01","slug":"co-qualifies-for-nationals-hammer-throw-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=224247","title":{"rendered":"Co qualifies for Nationals, Hammer Throw, Sat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/index\">(VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 \u2013 VCSU junior <a id=\"rosterLink0\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/7\/3526\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/7\/3526\" data-original-title=\"\">Zachary Co<\/a>\u00a0qualified for nationals in the hammer throw on Saturday during the Northern State Spring Open in Aberdeen, S.D.<\/p>\n<p>Co unleashed a top throw of 53.43 meters during the meet, setting a new personal record by more than nine feet and surpassing the NAIA \u2018A\u2019 Standard of 53.00 meters. Co\u2019s performance was good for second place at the large meet that had more than 40 athletes in some of the throwing events.<\/p>\n<p>He also threw a new personal outdoor record in the shot put on Saturday with his meet-winning toss of 17.06 meters. That ranks him fifth nationally in the NAIA.<\/p>\n<p>Co has now punched his ticket to compete in both the shot put and hammer throw at the NAIA National Meet from May 26-28 in Gulf Shores, Ala. Teammate\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink1\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/7\/3523\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/7\/3523\" data-original-title=\"\">Kyle Odegard<\/a>\u00a0has also qualified to compete in the javelin.<\/p>\n<p>The Viking track and field team had 12 Top 8 finishes on Saturday at the large Northern State Open, which mainly featured NCAA Division II schools. On the women\u2019s side,\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink2\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/12\/3568\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/12\/3568\" data-original-title=\"\">Brooke Malsom<\/a>\u00a0placed third in the both the 100 and 200 meter races, and added a fifth-place finish in the long jump.\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink3\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/12\/3553\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/12\/3553\" data-original-title=\"\">Peyton Halverson<\/a>\u00a0took fifth place in women\u2019s javelin with a toss of 36.81 meters.<\/p>\n<p>For the Viking men, Co led the way with three Top 8 finishes. He won the shot put, placed second in hammer throw and finished fifth in the discus.\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink4\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/7\/3602\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/7\/3602\" data-original-title=\"\">Clay Kummer<\/a>\u00a0ran a strong race in the 400 hurdles to place third, and he added a seventh-place finish in the 110 hurdles. Odegard finished third in men\u2019s javelin with his throw of 55.58 meters.\u00a0<a id=\"rosterLink5\" class=\"rosterProfileLink  \" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/roster\/48\/7\/3525\" data-url=\"\/SIDHelp\/briefBio\/48\/7\/3525\" data-original-title=\"\">Alex Otto<\/a>\u00a0took home two Top 8 finishes, placing second in the high jump and eighth in the javelin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next:<\/strong>\u00a0Valley City State is scheduled to compete at the MSU-Moorhead Ron Masanz Classic on Saturday, May 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 \u2013 VCSU junior Zachary Co\u00a0qualified for nationals in the hammer throw on Saturday during the Northern State Spring Open in Aberdeen, S.D. Co unleashed a top throw of 53.43 meters during the meet, setting a new personal record by more than nine feet and surpassing the NAIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224248,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224247\/revisions\/224248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}