Knoch high school graduate Jordan Geist won the collegiate national championship in the shot put for Arizona State Wednesday in Austin, Texas. Geist was competing at the NCAA Outdoor national championship. He won the Indoor national title earlier this year. Geist was third in the hammer throw.
The Butler County Community College golf team is on the cusp of its best finish in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III national championship tournament, and Troy Loughry (Lockry) and Liam Kosior of becoming the college’s second set of All-Americans in golf in the same season. The Pioneers on Thursday shot a 322 and are in fifth place entering Friday’s final round on the par-72 Chautauqua Golf Club Lake Course in New York. BC3’s best finish in five previous appearances in the national championship tournament was sixth in 2022. Golfers who place first through sixth become first-team All-Americans. Loughry finished fifth in 2022 to become BC3’s first first-team All-American. He had a 75 on Thursday and with a three-round 223 is two strokes from sixth place. Kosior shot a 79 and with a 233, is two strokes from 18th. He finished the 2022 national championship tournament tied for 20th and two strokes shy of becoming an All-American.
The 18 golfers with the lowest scores after the 72-hole national championship tournament are selected to be All-Americans.
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