TEMPE – The legend is coming home! Six time national champion and soon-to-be Sun Devil Hall of Fame Inductee Ryan Whiting ’10 is returning to Arizona State as the head throws coach. The 2010 ASU graduate was a finalist for The Bowerman, earned 2008 USTFCCCA Men’s Indoor National Field Athlete of the Year, earned four gold medals with Team USA, and is a nine-time All-American. Whiting replaces Brian Blutreich who took over throws at Oregon.
“We’re extremely excited for Ryan to come back home to Arizona State,” head coach Dion Miller said. “It’s always wonderful when you have the opportunity to hire one of your own. Ryan comes in with a bevy of experience between being a tremendous athlete here and helping to develop some of the best throwers in the world in recent years, so we’re very excited to have him.”
“Walking around the building now, it feels pretty cool to be back at ASU and have this opportunity to take our student-athletes through an upgraded version of the experience I had as an athlete here,” Whiting said. “I’m extremely excited for this opportunity – I’m definitely ready for this. My wife was a swimmer here, I was a thrower, and now my kids are in the area and I get to show them what being a Sun Devil is all about. Excitement was the overriding feeling throughout the process and I’m looking forward to taking the program to a new level.”
Over the course of his four years competing for ASU, Whiting earned nine NCAA All-American honors, six NCAA titles, and three Pac-12 individual titles. The USTFCCCA selected him as the American indoor performer of the year in 2008, and in 2010 he was one of three finalists for The Bowerman – the highest honor in collegiate track and field. Whiting won his first national title in 2008 with an NCAA Championship meet-record 21.73m/73-01.50 in the indoor shot. The mark stood as the program and collegiate indoor records until 2021 when ASU’s own Turner Washington bested it. Whiting’s contributions that year helped ASU win the 2008 NCAA Indoor title. Outdoors, Whiting’s 21.97m/72-1 shot throw remains ASU’s program record and sits second all-time in NCAA history.
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In the classroom, Whiting earned ESPN Second-Team Academic All-America honors on two occasions and was selected…
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