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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Alaina Omonode

  • Position:
    Throws
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Hometown:
    West Lafayette, Ind.
  • High School:
    West Lafayette

Summary

Biography

2024-25: 1x USTFCCCA All-American... Winter 2024-25 GLIAC Commissioner's Award Honoree...
Named GLIAC Runner-Up at the Indoor Championships with a 17.90m (58-8.75) weight throw... Placed fifth at the NCAA DII Indoor Championships with a season-best weight throw mark of 19.49m (63-11.25)... Placed second at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships  with a hammer throw of 54.24m (177-11.5)... Threw for a season-best 56.24m (184-6.25) hammer at the GVSU Last Chance Meet (O)... Qualified for and competed at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships, recorded a hammer throw of 53.93m (176-11.25)... Earned GLIAC All-Academic/Academic Excellence Honors...

2023-24: Had six first place finishes in weight throw (I) including a season-best throw of 19.75... Finished first at the GLIAC Indoor Championships with a 19.23m weight throw... Placed sixth at the NCAA DII Championships with a distance of 19.36m in weight throw... Placed first at the Al Owens Classic (O) with a hammer throw of 55.23m... Placed second at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships with a personal-best hammer throw of 59.79m... Recorded an eighth place hammer distance of 55.99m at the NCAA DII Championships...

2022-23: Placed first at the GVSU Mike Lints Alumni Open (I) with a weight throw distance of 17.79m... Finished first in weight throw with a 18.84m distance at the GVSU Snowdown Showdown (I)... Placed second at the GLIAC Indoor Championships with a 18.67m weight throw... Finished third at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships with a 53.57m hammer throw... Recorded a 52.72m hammer throw at the St. Francis Fighting Chance Invite (O) placing first... Finished 11th with a season-best hammer throw of 56.25m at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships...

2021-22: Placed first at the GVSU Bob Eubanks Open in the weight throw with a distance of 18.29m… Finished second in the hammer throw with a personal-best distance of 54.03m at the Davenport Invitational… Threw a personal-best distance of 19.84m in the weight toss at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships placing fourth… Placed fifth in shot put with a personal-best distance of 13.85m at the GLIAC Indoor Track & Field Championships… Earned All-Academic Excellence honors

2020-21: Placed eighth in weight throw with a distance of 16.59m at the GLIAC Indoor Track and Field Championships... Threw a personal-best distance of 17.74m at the GVSU Snowdown Showdown in the weight throw finishing fifth.

Prior to GVSU

High School:
Prepped at West Lafayette… Named to 2019 All-State team… Qualified for state finals in 2018 in shot put and 2019 in shot put and discus… Recorded a shot put PR of 41’7” in 2019… Plans to major in exercise science…

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Freshman

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  • 2021-22Sophomore

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  • 2022-23Junior

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  • 2023-24Senior

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  • 2024-25Graduate Student

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