Career and Season Results
NCAA Outdoor West Preliminaries Qualifier
2025 Discus (38th; 53.91m/176'10")
All-Conference
Outdoor
2022 Discus (2nd)
USATF U20 Outdoor Championships
2022 Discus - 3rd
Academic Honors
3x American Conference All-Academic Team - 2023, '24, '25
7x AD Honor Roll - Spring 2022, Fall '22, Spring '23, Fall '23, Spring '24, Fall '24, Spring '25
2024-25 (Senior): Indoor – Threw the shot put in eight meets…Threw a season-best 16.22m/53’2.75” to take fourth at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular…Recorded top-three performances at the Prairie Wolf Invitational and the Coach Wilson Invitational…Threw 16.12m/52’10.75” to take fifth at the Arkansas Qualifier…Placed 12
th at the AAC Indoor Championships with a throw of 15.85m/52’0”.
Outdoor – Competed in 10 meets, claiming two wins and four more top-three performances…Won the discus a the Friends Spring Open and the Oregon Open…Recorded a season-best mark of 56.72m/186’1”, the fifth-best throw in school history at the end of the season, to take second at the Rock Chalk Classic…Did not record a fair throw at the AAC Outdoor Championships…Qualified to the NCAA West Preliminaries where he placed 38
th in the discus with a throw of 53.91m/176’10”.
2023-24 (Junior): Indoor – Did not compete in a Shocker uniform.
Outdoor – Competed unattached in the discus at the Shocker Open, winning the event with a throw of 49.88m/163’8”.
2022-23 (Sophomore): Indoor – Competed in the shot put in five meets, winning two and placing top three in four…Won the Lindeman Invitational with a season-best throw of 16.89m/55’5” to move up to eighth all-time in school history…Claimed the shot put title at the Herm Wilson invitational and placed third in both the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular and the USD Alumni Meet…Scored two points at the AAC Indoor Championships, placing seventh in the shot put with a throw of 16.59m/54’5.25”.
Outdoor – Competed in eight meets…Recorded four top-five finishes in the discus…Placed second at both the Shocker Spring Invitational and the Midwest Classic…Threw a season-best 54.34m/178’3” in the discus at the KT Woodman Classic to move up to eighty all-time in Shocker history…Scored three points towards the men’s second-straight team title at the AAC Outdoor Championships, placing sixth in the discus and eleventh in the shot put.
2021-22 (Freshman): Indoor – Competed in the shot put in six meets…Placed fifth at the Shocker Prelude…Record a season-best 14.91m/48’11” at the AAC Indoor Championships, just missing scoring placement with his ninth-place finish.
Outdoor – Competed in eight meets…Placed in the top five in every discus competition…Recorded a season-best 54.17m/177’9” at the John Jacobs Invitational…Placed second at the AAC Outdoor Championships to score eight points for the team.
High School: 2x AAU track and field champion in discus … 3x AAU All-American … 2x Field Athlete of the Year … Regional champion in shot put and discus … Recorded the best discus throw in Bucklin, Kan. History in the AAU National Track Meet, beating his dad’s record that was set in the 1980s … Valedictorian … Earned a 4.0 GPA all four years … Marvin Hartzler Award … Personal bests: discus – 56.24m/184’6”; shot put – 16.96m/55’8”
Personal: Son of Mishaun and Brad … Has a brother, Talon … Uncle Nathan Leeper was a high jumper for K-State and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics … Uncle Tad threw shot put and discus for KU … Brother high jumps for West Point … Plans to major in exercise science.
