Brentwood High School senior, and National Scholastic Athletics Foundation (NSAF) javelin thrower Sophia Rivera has announced she will compete in both the shot put and javelin finals at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Youth Championships on Thursday, scheduled to start within five minutes of each other in Cali, Columbia, NSAF reports.
Rivera is the first at any level of IAAF championship competition to attempt two field events simultaneously, IAAF officials have said.
“I look at it as an adventure,” Rivera told the NSAF. She also threw the shot and javelin together at this year’s Kansas Relays.
According to the NSAF, Rivera led the nation in shot put for both indoors and outdoors this year. She set a U.S. Youth record with the 3kg shot put in the Youth Trials to qualify for Worlds. She is number 2 in the nation for javelin for U.S. high schools at 175-10.
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