Defiance College Yellow Jackets
2013 NCAA Champion Tom Postema
2013 Top 3 NCAA DIII Finishers Name Tom Postema Pete Delzer Harry Weintraub
Yr. Sr. Sr. Jr.
School Defiance Wis.-Oshkosh Case Western
Best Throw 64.67-meters 61.46-meters 61.27-meters
For the first time in Defiance College men’s track and field history, an individual was crowned national champion as Tom Postema continued his unbelievable 2013 campaign with a first-place finish in the hammer throw on Friday, May 24. Coming into the event, the Tinora High product had been ranked number one through basically the entire season and held true for one last competition. Postema hurled an amazing mark of 64.67 meters to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association Div. III Outdoor National Championship title. He recorded the distance on his fourth attempt of the afternoon and won the event by a large margin of 3.21m. The distance was his second best of the season and only three other athletes have recorded a longer mark in Div. III history.
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