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05/26/2012
Three Athletes, Two Relays Punch NCAA Ticket on Final Day in Austin
The Sun Devil track and field team brought their three-day total to 15 entries for the NCAA Championships in Iowa.
05/25/2012
Sun Devil T&F Earns Three More NCAA Qualifications
Jelmini, Clarke, Benard all add second NCAA Championships qualifications of the weekend in Austin.
05/24/2012
Five Punch Tickets to NCAA Championships on Day One of West Prelims
The Sun Devil track and field team posted an exceptional day of competition Thursday in Austin, Texas.
05/22/2012
ASU T&F Heads to Austin for NCAA West Preliminaries
Tickets to the NCAA Finals in Des Moines will be on the line this weekend at Mike A. Myers Stadium
05/17/2012
ASU Track and Field Posts 46 Entries into NCAA West Preliminaries
The Sun Devils will have 23 entries on both the men's and women's sides at the first round of the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas
ASU Athlete Profile - Jordan Clarke
Arizona State: Was the NCAA Champion in the shot put at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships as a sophomore... recorded marks in all five weight events (two indoor, three outdoor) that rank among the Top 10 all-time in Arizona State history... outdoors, his NCAA toss of 64-9.75 (19.75m) in the shot put earned him first place at the national meet in 2011 and ranks him fifth on ASU's career list in the event...2011 Outdoor: Won the NCAA Division I Championships in the shot put where he throw of 64-9.75(19.75m) was a career best and the fifth best throw in Arizona State's history in the event... took first at the Pac-10 Championships in the shot put with a throw of 62-06.00 (19.05m)... qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary round in the shot put, discus and hammer throw events... threw a career best in the hammer with a mark of 203-5 (62.00m) at the 2011 UCSD Triton Invitational... there, he also recorded a career best in discuss with a throw of 185-10(56.66m)... Ranks in the ASU career top-10 in the shot put, discus and hammer throw... Finished no worse than second in any shot put final on the season...2011 Indoor: Advanced to the shot put finals at the NCAA Devision I Indoor Championships where he just missed earning All-America honors with a ninth-place finish with a career-best throw of 61-04.25 (18.76) - good for the fifth-best indoor throw in school history... placed second in shot put at the MPSF Indoor Track & Field Championships as well as fifth in the weight throw with a 59-00.75 (18.00m) throw...competed in the shot put and weight throw at the Northern Arizona Team Challenge where he placed first in shot put and second in weight throw with a 57-2.75 (17.44m) and 61-6.75 (18.76m) respectively...2010 Outdoor: Advanced to his first NCAA meet by competing in the shot put and finishing fifth overall to earn All-America honors... his mark of 63-00.25 (19.21m) was a personal best (and the eighth-best all-time at ASU) and made him one of three Sun Devils to finish in the Top 8 nationally... qualified by placing fifth in the west... Pac-10 runner-up behind only Ryan Whiting (2010 NCAA Champion)... joined Whiting and Jason Lewis (third) in a sweep of the Top 3 at the Pac-10 meet... also scored in the discus at the conference meet by finishing sixth (177-02/54.01m)... toss of 185-1 (56.41m) at the Double Dual placed him fourth in the event and moved him up to 10th on the all-time ASU list... moved into sixth on the hammer list with a toss of 199-6 (60.81m) to finish third at the Double Dual... 2010 Indoor: Missed out on the NCAA meet by one position with a season-best toss of 60-10.00 (18.54m) at the Mountain `T' Invitational... recorded a personal-best throw of 61-03.00 (18.67m) in the weight throw in each of the last two meets of the season... finished fourth at the MPSF Championships with that distance, which ranks fifth all-time in school history... 2009 Track: Redshirted... competed in the U.S. Outdoor Championships and won the junior division shot put with a toss of 20.46m (67-01.50)... took fourth in the discus at 58.30m (191-03)... also competed in the senior division of the shot put and placed 21st overall... represented the U.S. at the Pan-American Junior Championships in Trinidad and captured the silver medal in the shot put with a toss of 19.97m (65-06.25).
High School: A 2008 graduate of Bartlett High School (Anchorage, Alaska)... lettered in track & field and football four times each... twice named team captain for the football team... named the 2007 Gatorade Player of the Year for Alaska... three-time state champion in the shot put and discus... holds the state, region and school record in both throws (71-03.00 in the shot put and 204-0 in the discus)... named the Anchorage Daily News Athlete of the Year (2007, 2008)... Boy's Athlete of the Meet at the 2008 state track meet... in football, earned first-team all-state (center) in 2006 and 2007.
Personal: Major is exploratory... parents are Michael and Christine Clarke... has one brother: Matthew... born July 10, 1990, in Anchorage, Alaska... full name is Jordan Michael Clarke.
Personal Bests • Shot Put: 64-09.55 (indoor) / 63-00.25 (outdoor) • Discus: 185-10 • Hammer: 203-5 • Weight: 61-6.75
In NCAA Championship Meets
2011 OTF * Shot Put (f) * 64-9.75 * 1st
2011 ITF * Shot Put (f) * 61-6.5 * 9th
2010 OTF* Shot Put (f) * 63-00.25 * 5th
* Indicates All-America honors attained
