Shawn Collins Career Track & Field Stats
Academic Notes: Majoring in biomedical science
Personal Bests: Shot Put (18.05m, 59-2.75) | Discus (48.35m, 158-7)
2017: No indoor eligibility, competed at five outdoor meets … Logged a career-best mark in the shot put event at the Jim Click Shootout (18.34m, 60' 2") … Earned a fourth-place finish and five points at outdoor conference championships in the shot
2016: Registered shot put marks at three different indoor meets … Secured his first-career individual conference title with a 16.99m (55-9) shot put throw at Big Sky Indoor Championships … Competed at seven more outdoor meets, garnering his second-career conference championship at outdoor conference with a career-best shot put mark of 18.05m (59-2.75) … Became the first Lumberjack since 2010 to win the conference title in the shot put event during both the outdoor and indoor seasons … Advanced to NCAA West Preliminaries for the second time in his NAU career
2015: Competed exclusively in the shot put during the indoor season ... His season-best came when he finished third with an All-Conference performance at the Big Sky Indoor Championships with a distance of 16.34m (53-7.5) ... Competed in the shot put and discus during the outdoor season ... Finished fifth in the shot put at the Big Sky Championships and also competed in the discus ... Posted a season-best discus throw of 45.79m (150-3) at the Bryan Clay Invitational
2014: Competed primarily in the shot put event ... Threw a season-best 16.47m (54-0.5) in the shot put to take fifth at the Big Sky Indoor Championships ... Had a phenomenal outdoor season as he threw for a season-best 17.14m (56-3) at the Texas Relays ... Scored for the Lumberjacks at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships, finishing eighth in the shot put ... Competed at the NCAA West Preliminaries in the shot put event
2013: The Lumberjack men's top shot putter during the indoor season, notching a season-best of 16.98m (55-8.5) at the Mountain T's Invitational ... Scored in his first-career Big Sky Indoor Championships with a sixth-place finish in the shot put, registering a 16.97m (55-8.25) mark ... Redshirted outdoor season
High School: A 2012 graduate of Chandler High School, where he competed in shot put and discus all four years for Head Coach Stephan Carson ... Helped his team to the 5A state championship in 2012 with an individual state title in the shot put his senior year ... Also contributed to a team crown in 2010, and was on the state runner-up squad in 2011 ... Competed in the 2012 Arizona Meet of Champions, placing second in the shot put (58-8.5) and third in the discus (164-11)
Personal: Born May 25, 1994 to Matt and Carrie Collins in Phoenix ... Has a younger brother, Cortland, and an older sister, Sabrina ... Considered TCU, Arizona State, and Arizona before choosing NAU ... Chose the Lumberjack throws program for the direction the team is heading under Coach Oscar Duncan ... His father wrestled at Columbia University.
