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Conrad Woolsey
Conrad Woolsey

Hometown:
Excelsior Springs, Mo.

High School:
Excelsior Springs HS

Last College:
Northwest Missouri State University

Height:
5-11

Birthdate:
02/20/1981


PERSONAL BESTS

as of Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Indoor
SP 19.22m 63-0½ B12 Ind '05
Outdoor
SP 19.48m 63-10¾ '05
DISC 53.71m 176-2½ Big12 '04

POST-SEASON HISTORY

NCAA Championships
Shot Put
2004 JR 19.09m 62-7½ 7
2004 JR 18.66m 61-2½ q
2005 SR 18.38m 60-3½ 10
2005 SR 18.15m 59-6½ q
NCAA Div II Championships
Shot Put
2001 PRE 17.81m 58-5 4
2002 PRE 18.14m 59-6 2
Discus
2002 PRE 51.36m 168-6 8
NCAA Div II Indoor Championships
Shot Put
2002 PRE 17.67m 57-11½ 1
NCAA Indoor Championships
Shot Put
2004 JR 18.86m 61-10½ 8
2005 SR 19.21m 63-0¼ 8
NCAA Mideast Regional
Shot Put
2004 JR 18.53m 60-9½ 5
2005 SR 18.79m 61-7¾ 5
USATF Championships
Shot Put
2005 SR FOUL
USATF Junior Championships
Discus
2000 PRE 50.15m 164-6¼ 5
USATF Olympic Trials
Shot Put
2004 JR 18.12m 59-5¼ 17
Big 12 Championships
Shot Put
2004 JR 18.18m 59-7½ 4
2005 SR 19.41m 63-8 3
Discus
2004 JR 53.71m 176-2½ 7
2005 SR 50.12m 164-5 14
Big 12 Indoor Championships
Shot Put
2004 JR 18.77m 61-6¾ 3
2005 SR 19.22m 63-0½ 1

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Academic All-Big 12
  • Eight-time All-American (4, D-I; 4, D-II)
  • U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier (2004)
  • NCAA Division II Indoor Shot Put Champion (2002, Northwest Missouri State)
  • Big 12 Indoor Champion (2005)

YEAR-BY-YEAR

2005:
Outdoor: Earned All-America honors once again via 10th place national finish (18.38m, 60-3½) ... placed fifth at the NCAA Regional in Bloomington (18.79m, 61- 7¾) ... took third at the Big 12 Outdoor meet, throwing his collegiate best of 63-8 (19.41m). Indoor: Big 12 Indoor Champion, winning on his final throw over Kansas' Sheldon Battle, throwing indoor personal best 63-½ (19.22m) ... placed eighth at the NCAA Indoor Championships earning All-America honors once again (63-¼, 19.21m).

2004:
Outdoor: (MU) Became the Tigers' only indoor and outdoor All-American in 2004 with a seventh-place performance at the NCAA Championships in Austin, gaining a new personal-best of 62-7¾ (19.09m) ... Olympic Trials qualifier, placing 17th, seven spots higher than his opening seed (59-5.5, 18.12m) ... earned two additional All- Big 12 honors, scoring in fourth in the shot put and seventh in the discus, gained a PR in the discus with a toss of 176-2 (53.71m) ... competed in a total of 24 meets during the year, an exausting enterprise for any track and field athlete ... finished sixth at the Drake Relays in the special invitational section ... shot put champ at the Missouri Relays. Indoor: (MU) Earned first Division I All-American honors with an eighth-place national finish, throwing the shot put 61-10½ (18.86m) ... placed third at the Big 12 Indoor in the shot (61-7, 18.77m) ... gained an all new personal best in the shot at the MU All-Comers, throwing for 62-1 (18.92m) ... won titles at the Cyclone Last Chance and MU-KU-KSU Triangular ... placed in the top three in nine of the meets performed ... competed in a total of 11 indoor meets.

2002:
Outdoor: (NWMSU) All-American in shot put and discus events with second place finish in the shot put (59-7½) and a eighth place finish in the discus ... team finish 10th nationally. Indoor: (NWMSU) NCAA Division II Champion in the shot put.

2001:
Outdoor: (NWMSU) Earned fourth All-American honor by finishing fourth in the shot put at the national championships despite an illness. Indoor: (NWMSU) Helped team to fourth place national finish.

High School:
Named Missouri High School Athlete of the Year in 1999 beating out former basketball Tiger and Los Angeles Laker, Kareem Rush ... All-State in four sports - Track and Field, Baseball (with team), Wrestling, and Football ... AAU National champion in both shot put and discus during high school career ... his high school personal best of 64- 1 was accomplished at the USATF Junior National Championship where he took the title ... still holds the Class 3 MSHSAA shot put record with 1999 toss of 63-8½, the mark is also the second best throw all-time in the state ... was Class 4 champion in 1998, defeating former Tiger Russ Bell, moved down to Class 3 his senior year and named state champ, defeating another former Tiger, Christian Cantwell ... was starting tight end for his football team sophomore year (1996) that won the Class 3A state championship ... also was all-state on his baseball team, and finished second in his class his senior year of wrestling.

Personal:
Son of Wayne & Nancy Woolsey ... earned a Ph.D. in health/sports psychology ... graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a bachlor's degree in health and physical education ... redshirted in 2000 at NWMSU, used two years of eligibilty in 2001 & 2002, earned a medical redshirt in 2002, then transferred to Mizzou ... while at NWMSU was a three-time Academic All-American and had six semesters with a 4.0 GPA ... father, Wayne, earned a doctorate from Missouri and was a football and baseball star at NWMSU ... brother, Tucker, was a fullback for NWMSU when the Bearcats won two of their NCAA Division II National Championships, also is a seven-time All-American in the shot put and competed with Conrad throughout carrer at Northwest ... now has earned a master's degree and is now completeing a doctorate program ... born February 20, 1981 in Smithville, Mo.