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2018-19 Indoor Track Roster

Yemisi Oroyinyin

  • Class Senior
  • Height
  • Hometown Las Cruces, N.M.
  • High School Onate
  • Position TH

Biography

Senior (2021): Season canceled due to COVID-19

Senior (2020): Competed in five meets… Broke the program record for the weight throw at the Don Kirby Elite when she posted a mark of 20.16m (66-1.75)… Finished fifth in the shot put the WAC Championships when she threw 14.17m (46-6)… Posted a mark of 18.42m (60-5.25) earning second place in the weight throw at the WAC Championships…

Junior (2019): Competed in five meets… Threw 13.78m (45-2.5) to place second at the WAC Indoor Championship to place second in the shot put Placed fifth in the weight throw when she threw a personal record 15.45 (50-8.25)… Posted a season best mark of 14.42m (47-3.75) in the shot put at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate Invitational

Sophomore (2017): Competed in five meets… At the New Mexico Don Kirby Invitational, she set a new personal record in the weight throw when she threw 15.42m (50-7.25)… Threw 12.57 (41-3) in the shot put at the WAC Indoor Championship

Freshman (2016): Competed in five meets... At the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational, posted a mark of 13.04 (42-9.5) in the weight throw... Placed eighth in the shot put when she threw 12.72m (40-3.25) at the WAC Indoor Championship..

Prior to NM State: Won a state championship in the shot put and discus in 2015... 

Personal: Daughter of Waheed and Daphine Oroyinyin... Has two siblings Olawatoyin and Biyisola...

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Freshman

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  • 2016-17Sophomore

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  • 2017-18Junior

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  • 2018-19Senior

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