{"id":873,"date":"2015-02-19T22:39:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?p=873"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:50:22","slug":"josh-freeman-gets-it-rolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman gets it rolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcthrows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/freeman.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"874\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?attachment_id=874\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcthrows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/freeman.jpg?fit=196%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"196,258\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"freeman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcthrows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/freeman.jpg?fit=196%2C258&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcthrows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/freeman.jpg?resize=196%2C258\" alt=\"freeman\" width=\"196\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After setting a Missouri Valley Championship outdoor record of 19.86m last spring, Southern Illinois putter Josh Freeman showed up for fall training ready to begin his assault on the venerable 20-meter mark.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, injury problems in the late fall have him, by his estimate, five weeks behind in his training.<\/p>\n<p>Not a comfortable situation during a year in which it may well take somewhere in the mid-19 meter range \u00a0to qualify for the NCAA indoor championships.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, though, Josh showed that he is catching up quickly as he hit a season-best 19.40m at the Fred Wilt Invitational hosted by Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfIspt2xdJg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>John Smith, Josh&#8217;s coach at SIU, said that in the week leading up to the Purdue meet Josh threw 56&#8217;8&#8243; with a 20-pound shot, 61&#8217;2&#8242; with an 18-pound shot, 65&#8217;8&#8243; with a 15-pounder, and 69&#8242; with a 6k.<\/p>\n<p>Josh says that his bench and squat numbers are up 5-8% from last year, and that his hang cleans are up almost 15%.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of technique, he has been concentrating on staying back more in the middle of the ring and giving his legs a chance to do more work.<\/p>\n<p>Josh will compete this weekend at Eastern Illinois University in an effort to clinch a spot at the NCAA&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After setting a Missouri Valley Championship outdoor record of 19.86m last spring, Southern Illinois putter Josh Freeman showed up for fall training ready to begin his assault on the venerable 20-meter mark. Unfortunately, injury problems in the late fall have him, by his estimate, five weeks behind in his training. Not a comfortable situation during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/?p=873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Josh Freeman gets it rolling<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shot-put"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8knIb-e5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcthrows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}