You have to be as explosive as possible, but then stay within the circle. You have to be strong for sure to throw it far, but having good balance is very, very important, and so is having good feet. "It will go sideways, drop to the ground, fly crooked. "It's extremely difficult to get the discus to fly through the air for long distances," he said. "The discus is the most difficult of the implements to throw between hammer, shot and javelin," Hoppler said. "He and Coach Aubin put a program in place and Josh has executed it over time to put himself in this position.
"By the end of the season he put himself at a different level and obviously by the time he got to New Englands he really took a big step by winning the championship with that record," Hoppler said. He threw well in the fall, but the discus is only competed in outdoor track in the spring, so he had to wait for the true competition in the event. "It was like, 'this kid is good.'"Īfter a strong summer of training and working in the weight room, Hoffman came back to UNH in the fall even better. "Last year, he was showing some things that were impressive and it was a little eye-opening," Hoppler said. Recruited to UNH by legendary head coach Jim Boulanger who retired last spring, Hoffman got to campus well-schooled in the event, said Hoppler and assistant coach Cullen Aubin, who works with the Wildcat throwers. Hoffman did track for fun in middle school and started specializing in throwing events as a freshman at Campbell and learned the ropes from Jarod Mills, the former throwing coach at the school. "I want to get used to competing at a high level for my later years at UNH.
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"My goal is to take it all in and learn how to compete on a higher level," Hoffman said on Wednesday from Bloomington before heading out to practice. Each athlete will get three throws and the top 12 finishers will advance to the NCAA Championships to be held June 8-11 at the University of Oregon in Eugene. 30 in the field of 48 qualifiers in the East.
The next week he came back and shattered that mark with a throw of 185 feet, 3 inches at the New England Championships, qualifying him for a spot in the NCAAs.įriday afternoon, Hoffman steps up a level in competition again and competes in the East Preliminary Round of the NCAA Championships at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Hoffman broke UNH's school record with a toss of 179 feet, 1 inch at the America East Outdoor Track & Field Championships on May 8. and Campbell High School, appears to be meeting the challenge of spinning in a circle and chucking the plate-like implement that weighs about 4.5 pounds. Joshua Hoffman, a UNH sophomore and computer science major from Litchfield, N.H. Throwing the discus, says Robert Hoppler, the director of track & field and cross country at the University of New Hampshire, is not an easy endeavor.
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