{"id":226604,"date":"2021-05-26T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T03:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=226604"},"modified":"2021-05-27T23:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:24:45","slug":"naia-track-field-national-odegard-all-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=226604","title":{"rendered":"NAIA Track & Field National, Odegard All-American"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"GULF SHORES, ALA.\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU<\/a>)\u00a0 \u2013 Kyle Odegard<\/a> picked up his third career All-American honor on Wednesday, placing third in men’s javelin at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships.<\/p>\n

The VCSU junior recorded a top throw of 61.97 meters (203 feet, 3 inches) on his second attempt of the day, finishing third amongst the top javelin throwers in the nation.<\/p>\n

Leon Menten of Lewis-Clark won the national title with his throw of 66.38 meters Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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It is the third time Odegard has competed at outdoor nationals and the third time he has finished in the Top 8 to earn All-American. Odegard finished seventh in 2018 and placed fourth in 2019.<\/p>\n

He joins Wanda Schwab as the only Vikings in school history to earn Outdoor All-American three times in their\u00a0career.<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, junior Zachary Co<\/a> placed 33rd<\/sup> in the men’s hammer throw. Co had a top throw of 47.26 meters. Co will also compete in shot put \u2013 his best event \u2013 on Friday at 1 p.m. Co is ranked fifth in the nation in the shot put.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GULF SHORES, ALA.\u00a0\u00a0 (VCSU)\u00a0 \u2013 Kyle Odegard picked up his third career All-American honor on Wednesday, placing third in men’s javelin at the NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. The VCSU junior recorded a top throw of 61.97 meters (203 feet, 3 inches) on his second attempt of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226604","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\/226604","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=226604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226606,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226604\/revisions\/226606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}