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2023-24 Men's Track & Field Roster
Roster
Sam Welsh
- Height:
- 6-3
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Lunenburg, Ma.
- High School:
- Concord Academy
Welsh's TFRRS Stats
2024 Olympic Trials Qualifier - Discus
Rice All-Time Ranking (as of June 2, 2023)
No 2 in Discus (205-10; 62.74)
No. 5 in Shot Put indoor (56-10.25; 17.33)
No. 7 in Shot Put outdoor (57-11; 17.65)
CONFERENCE TITLES
2024 AAC Outdoor - Discus
2023 C-USA Outdoor - Shot Put
2023 C-USA Outdoor - Discus
SUPERLATIVES
2023 C-USA Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week (4/11/23)
ALL-CONFERENCE HONORS
2023-24 AAC All-Academic Team
2023-24 AAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (outdoor track)
2024 AAC Outdoor Discus (1st)
2023 C-USA Outdoor Shot Put (1st)
2023 C-USA Outdoor Discus (1st)
2023 C-USA Indoor Shot Put (2nd)
AT MAJOR MEETS
2024 NCAA West Prelims - 20th, DT, 55.06m (180-8)
2024 AAC Outdoor - 1st, DT, 58.62m (192-4)
2024 AAC Outdoor - 6th, SP, 17.65m (57-11)
2023 NCAA West Prelims - 30th, DT, 54.58m (179-1)
2023 C-USA Outdoor - 1st, DT, 59.56m (195-5)
2023 C-USA Outdoor - 1st, SP, 17.63m (57-10.25)
2023 C-USA Indoor - 2nd, SP, 17.33m (56-10.25)
PERSONAL BESTS
Outdoor
Shot Put - 17.65 (57-11), AAC Championships (5/12/24)
Discus Throw - 62.04m (203-6) Triton Invite (4/7/23)
ACADEMIC HONORS
2023-24 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2023-24 AAC All-Academic
2024 Rice Honor Athlete
2022-23 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team
2022-23 C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll
2023-24
Outdoor: Competed at seven meets...Claimed the AAC title in discus while setting a personal best in the shot put, finishing sixth...Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims in discus, where he finished 20th...Competed at the US Olympic Trials, where he finished 19th.
2022-23
Indoor: Competed at two meets...Finished second in shot put at the C-USA Championships...Outdoor: Threw at seven meets...Broke the C-USA meet record in the discus while claiming the event title. Later went on to win the shot put on his first throws of the outdoor season...Qualified for the NCAA West Prelims in discus.
2019-20 (Harvard)
(Indoor) Opened the season with a first-place finish in the shot put (15.80m) at the Crimson Elite... Threw for a distance of 15.92m in the shot put at H-Y-P to place fourth... Hit the 14.88m mark in the shot put at Ivy League Heps...(Outdoor) Did not compete in the outdoor season due to the Ivy League and Harvard canceling the spring season.
2018-19 (Harvard)
Earned USTFCCCA First Team All-America Honors with 6th place finish at Nationals… Named USTFCCCA Northeast Field Athlete of the Year… Named to First Team All-Ivy League in the disucs and Second Team in the shot put… Recorded a career high in shotput with a 16.96m throw at the Boston University Multi-Team Meet and placed first that meet…Recorded a discus throw of 59.24m at the NCAA Division I East Region Preliminary Rounds… Recorded a shotput throw of 16.16m at the Harvard vs Penn Match… Reached 56.57m in the discus throw at the 37th Annual Victor Lopez Classic… Placed first at the Harvard-Yale Match in discus and shotput with throws of 51.48m and 15.60m… Finished the Ivy League Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a discus throw of 58.88.
HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from Concoard Academy (Concord, MA) where he competed for the Chameleons under head coach Jon Waldron..was the HS National Champion in the discus and New England's all-time record holder in the discus...threw 64,62m in discus his senior year and 60-0 in shot put...also played baseball and basketball.
PERSONAL
Parents: Theo Sawyer and Denise Welsh...born in Worcester, MA...Rice College: Graduate Student...Major: Master of Data Science.
