After a few slow weeks to start out the season, true freshman Conor McCullough (Princeton) lived up to the hype and launched a personal best of 70.37m to win the Heptagonal Championships on Saturday. In addition to ranking third in the NCAA, the mark is also a new league and U.S. junior national record. McCullough, already the national high school record holder, added more than two feet to Walter Henning's national junior record. Henning still holds the U.S. junior record with the international 6-kilogram implement.

Also in men's action, junior Eric Flores (California Lutheran) threw a new D3 leading mark. Drew Frizzell (Central Missouri) extended his D2 national lead and Jason Stomps (Hillsdale) threw a big best to move within inches.

Nikola Lomnicka (Georgia) had the top women's mark of the weekend at 63.29m. Brynn Smith (Brown) had the second best mark to win the Heptagonal Championship and also set a new league and meet record.

Collegiate Men's Hammer Throw 
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    Name                    Year School                  Result           
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  1 Conor McCullough          FR Princeton               70.37m   230-10
  2 Drew Frizzell             JR Central Missouri (D2)   66.87m   219-05
  3 Jason Stomps              SR Hillsdale (D2)          66.39m   217-10
  4 Jordan Stray              JR Oregon                  66.36m   217-08
  5 John Freeman              SR Georgia                 66.31m   217-07
  6 Eric Flores               JR Cal Lutheran (D3)       66.13m   216-11
  7 James Rogan               SR Idaho                   65.84m   216-00
  8 Ryan Loughney             SO Ashland (D2)            65.76m   215-09
  9 Branislav Danis           SR Georgia                 64.02m   210-00
 10 Mike Jeffery              JR Ashland (D2)            62.03m   203-06
 11 Sean Larson               SR Wisconsin-Stout (D3)    61.34m   201-03
 12 Eric James                SR Kent State              61.28m   201-00
 13 Ben Bishop                JR SIU-Edwardsville        61.18m   200-09
 14 Matt Pfleger              JR Kent State              61.11m   200-06
 15 Taylor Berliant           JR Claremont-Mudd-Scripps(D3)61.00m 200-01
Cutoff: 61.00m
 
Post Collegiate Men's Hammer Throw (Americans Only)
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    Name                         Affiliation             Result           
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  1 Cory Martin                  Nike                    71.84m   235-08
  2 Drew Loftin                  Unattached              71.59m   234-10
  3 Garland Porter               Unattached              69.40m   227-08
  4 Zach Hazen                   Unattached              68.61m   225-01
  5 John Newell                  Unattached              67.52m   221-06
  6 David Paul                   Unattached              66.49m   218-02
  7 Lucais MacKay                Shore AC                65.58m   215-02
  8 Matt Dibuono                 Unattached              65.55m   215-01
  9 Bryan Tolcer                 Unattached              64.39m   211-03
 10 Zechariah Whittington        Unattached              63.58m   208-07
 11 Aaron Studt                  Unattached              61.18m   200-09
 12 Mike Milakovic               Synergy TC              61.02m   200-02
Cutoff: 61.00m
 
Collegiate Women's Hammer Throw 
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    Name                    Year School                  Result         
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  1 Nikola Lomnicka           SO Georgia                 63.29m   207-08
  2 Brynn Smith               JR Brown                   60.85m   199-08
  3 Liz Murphy                FR Grand Valley State (D2) 60.29m   197-10
  4 Emma Ruggiero             JR Princeton               58.83m   193-00
  5 Sarah Grimm               SR Utah                    58.68m   192-06
  6 Valerie Wert              JR Akron                   58.57m   192-02
  7 Jade Hodson               SO Nebraska                58.50m   191-11
  8 Faith Sherrill            JR Indiana                 58.46m   191-09
  9 Crystal Bourque           JR Rhode Island            57.71m   189-04
Cutoff: 57.00m
 
Post Collegiate Women's Hammer Throw (Americans Only)
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    Name                         Affiliation             Result           
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  1 Jesica Cosby                 Unattached              66.64m   218-08
  2 Loree Smith                  NYAC                    65.86m   216-01
  3 Britney Henry                Unattached              65.17m   213-10
  4 Loren Groves                 Unattached              62.83m   206-02
  5 Kimery Hern                  Club Northwest          60.73m   199-03
  6 Stevi Large                  Unattached              60.59m   198-09
  7 Brittany Hinchcliffe         Unattached              60.43m   198-03
  8 Amanda Murphy                Unattached              58.82m   193-00
  9 Amy Thayer                   Shore AC                58.51m   191-11
Cutoff: 57.00m 

High School Women's Hammer Throw
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    Name                         Affiliation             Result           
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  1 Shelby Ashe                  Throw1Deep              59.89m   196-06
  2 Melissa Kurzdorfer           Lancaster, NY                    192-08
Cutoff: 57.00m

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