{"id":2137,"date":"2018-06-22T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2018-06-25T06:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T11:17:51","slug":"usatf-championships-day-1-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"USATF Championships Day 1 Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a rainy evening in Des Moines, the always ebullient Kara Winger nabbed her eighth national title in the javelin with a sixth round toss of 62.88m.<\/p>\n

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Here she is in a post-competition interview:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FZLUubj7OL0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Earlier that day, Stanford’s Valarie Allman won her first national title with a toss of 63.55m–an impressive throw in humid, basically wind-free conditions.<\/p>\n

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Go here to listen to a very happy Val share her thoughts on becoming USA champion:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EltGzk5arxQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Finishing second to Val was Maggie Ewen, arguably the greatest NCAA thrower of all time. Maggie’s best throw of 61.13m came in round five.<\/p>\n

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Here are some comments by Maggie after the competition. Sorry about the abrupt finish to this interview. Technical difficulties!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qgBDGMtmYTo<\/a><\/p>\n

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On a rainy evening in Des Moines, the always ebullient Kara Winger nabbed her eighth national title in the javelin with a sixth round toss of 62.88m. Here she is in a post-competition interview: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FZLUubj7OL0   Earlier that day, Stanford’s Valarie Allman won her first national title with a toss of 63.55m–an impressive throw in … Continue reading USATF Championships Day 1 Interviews<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-ncaa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8knIb-yt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}