2012: Southeastern Conference Outdoor champion (javelin) … Won every meet in which he competed outdoors in 2012 until the NCAA Outdoor Championship, tallying seven consecutive javelin titles … Seventh at the NCAA Outdoor Championship (73.99m/242-9) to earn All-America honors … Set Florida record this season, throwing a personal best of 77.89m/255-6.

2011: Earned All-America first team honors with fourth-place finish in NCAA javelin competition (75.01m/246-1) … Never finished lower than 10th in the javelin during his freshman campaign, with his season’s best throw coming at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL/PREP: A thrower from Zadar, Croatia … The Croatian national record holder in the javelin at 74.80m and captured his country’s national championship in 2009 and 2010 … Holds the national junior record in the javelin (74.32) … A 2007 World Youth Competitor and a 2008 World Junior Competitor … Holds personal-best marks of 74.80m (javelin) and 17.70m (shot put).