Omaha Burke HS, Omaha, NE, c/o 2025
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Sophia’s start in the javelin was at age four years old. Her father, Chris, grew up in New Hampshire where javelin was a sport. He had a friend who started young and had good success later, so he thought if Sophia did the same, she would be good as well.
“I’ve been competing in USATF since I was four years old. I went to my first national competition when I was seven[1st grade]” Sophia says of her early start. “ Me and my best friend Kat[ Katharine Beachler] have been throwing together since we were super little.”
Scott lives in Omaha, Nebraska and attends Burke HS which creates some problems for her javelin throwing season.
“Well, we don’t have javelin in high school in Nebraska. So I am actually not able to start my season by the NCAA requirements until high school track season is done. That’s at the very beginning of June. I end at the end of July or the very beginning of August. I only get two months a year dedicated to javelin and then I go straight from volleyball to wrestling to track again. So I only spend about two months a year on javelin.”
That hasn’t hindered her progress. She has won the USATF JO age group competition as a 12 (119-10 AeroJav-450g) and 13( 131-0-600g) year old, and this past year won the AAU JO as a 15 year old ( 152-09.75). She won the American JavFest open division the past two years, ‘22(152-11) and ‘ 23(156-0) and was second at the Nike Outdoor Nationals this year with a 154-11.
She isn’t able to train regularly with the javelin and keeps herself condition by participating in volleyball, wrestling, track (discus and shot put) and doing some javelin exercises when she is not throwing.
“It’s mostly just staying athletic during volleyball, wrestling and track seasons,” she says of her off-season training. “ It’s not much javelin training, throwing wise. I’ll do drills with bands and stuff. I go to the gym pretty much year round and when I am there I’ll do javelin work and flexibility training and stuff like that.”
Each year of high school she has played volleyball in the fall (she is a setter), then she wrestles in the winter, a sport that is new to Nebraska and began her freshman year. Then she is off to track in the spring where she competes in discus and shot put.
When she is able to train for the javelin, the facilities are a bit on the worn side. Omaha hosted the national championships there once and there is a runway…
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