This Decade in Review: Top 500 Boys in the Shot Put

Photo by Steven Pisano

Broadneck's Elian Ahmar went on a run that few have matched over the past decade, going undefeated in the shot put throughout his entire indoor senior season. That included sweeps of county, regional and state titles, as well as a victory in the Emerging Elite section of the event at New Balance Indoor Nationals. Ahmar came the closest to reaching the 60-foot mark indoors that any Maryland athlete not named Rashad Manning had. Manning, meanwhile, was a dominant force in his own right: he finished third in the championship section of the shot put at indoor nationals as a senior.

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In between stops at Gonzaga (DC) and Washington-Liberty (VA, then Washington-Lee), Jabari Bennett competed for Blake as a sophomore and junior. During his four seasons at Blake he went four-for-four when it came to state shot put titles. Along with Manning and Ahmar he was one of just three Maryland boys to throw at least 59 feet in the shot put. He took it even further during his senior indoor season at Washington-Liberty, throwing 64'6.50 at the VHSL 6A indoor state meet to take home yet another state title.

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