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Women's Cross Country/Track & Field

2016-17 Women's Cross Country/Track & Field Roster

Samantha Carson

  • Position Throws
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Junior
  • Highschool Lowell High School
  • Hometown Lowell, Mass.
  • Major History

Biography

Personal Bests
Shot Put:             40' 7.5" (2016, Outdoor)
Discus:                111' 5" (2016, Outdoor)
Weight Throw:     37' 7.75" (2016, Indoor)

2015-16
 
Indoor Track
With a shot put of 38' 8.25" at the 30th Brown University Alden Invitational, she finished in 6th place... At the Tufts Invite #1 in the shot put Carson finished in 4th with a mark of 37' 0.25"... She had a personal best with a 37' 7.75" weight throw at the Boston University Mulit Team Meet, finishing in 8th place... In the 4x800 meter relay at the 2016 America East Indoor Championships, her team came in 5th with a time of 9:27.39... Finished 19th in the shot put at the 48th NEICAAA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a distance of 38' 6.25"...

Outdoor Track
At the UMass Lowell Invitational she had a 40' 7.5" shot put, a personal best, got her 2nd place... At the same event she had another personal best, this time in the discus throw, where she finished in 8th with a mark of 111' 5"... In the shot put at the 2016 University of New Hampshire meet she finished in 4th with a mark of 36' 11.75"...
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2014-15
 
Outdoor Track
In her first event, the discus at the 2015 Jim Sheehan Invitational she finished with a distance of 89’ 5”… At the 2015 Jim Sheehan Invitational she finished in fourth place for the shot put with a distance of 37’ 4.5”… She finished with a shot put of 37’ 11.5” in the George Davis Invitational which earned her fourth place… She had a distance of 96’ 10” in discus at the UMass Pre-Conference Meet 2015… At the 2015 America East Outdoor Championships she finished with a shot put distance of 36” 11” and a discus distance of 94’ 9”… She finished with a distance of 37’ 6.5” in shot put at the NEICAAA Track and Field Outdoor Championship…
 
Lowell High School: First place at the MVC Meet Indoor… Broke the indoor shot put school record… Honor Roll…

Personal: Daughter of Ronald and Susan Carson of Lowell, MA… Goes by the nickname Sam… Her hobbies include going to the beach… Her favorite TV shows are American Ninja Warrior, Grey’s Anatomy and NCIS… Her favorite sports teams are the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics… One of her influences is Valerie Adams… Calls breaking the indoor school record in the shot put her greatest sports moment… Chose UMass Lowell because it’s a good school… Hopes to become a high school history teacher and a track and field coach… Majoring in History…
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Sophomore

    Throws
    5'8"
  • 2016-17Junior

    Throws
    5'8"
  • 2016-17Junior

    Throws
    5'8"