Event: Javelin
Height: 6-0
Weight: 205
PR: 83.74m/274-9 (2008)
Current Residence: Chula Vista, Calif.
High School: Temple (Texas) HS ‘97
College: Texas State University ‘02
Coach: Ty Sevin
Agent: Valentina Fedjuschina
Club: Unattached

Career Highlights: 2008 Olympic Trials runner-up; 2007 USA runner-up; 2007 Pan Am Games silver medalist; 5th at 2005 USA Outdoor Champs

Hazle is enjoying his finest season in 2008 highlighted by his runner-up performance at the 2008 Olympic Trials and in posting an new personal best of 83.74m/274-9 from his win May 9 in Athens, Ga. Hazle enjoyed a strong season in 2007 with a runner-up placing at the AT&T USA Outdoor Championships. Additionally in 2007, Hazle posted a then personal best performance with a toss of 81.99m/269-0 on September 13. As a student athlete at Texas State University, Hazle showed his potential with an enormous personal best his senior year of 235-7, which improved his all-time best by an amazing 25 feet from his previous best mark from his junior year. Hazle owns a B.S. degree in exercise Sports Science and Business and a Master's degree in Sports Management from Texas State University. He is employed as a sports performance coach at Velocity Sports Performance in Lawrenceville, Ga.

Competition Results:
2008: 2nd at Olympic Trials (75.76m/248-07)...7th at Bislett Games Oslo (80.31m/263-6)...5th at DKB-ISTAF Berlin (81.14/266-2)...3rd at Doha (82.21m/269-8)...1st at Athens, Ga. (83.74m/274-9PR)
2007: USA Outdoor Championships runner-up (75.06m/246-3)...Pan Am Games silver medal (75.33m/247-1)...1st at Huelva (81.99m/269-0)...ranked #2 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 81.99m/269-0.
2006: 6th at USA Outdoor Champs (73.01m/239-6)...1st at Chania (77.09m/252-11)...ranked #3 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 77.09m/252-11.
2005: 5th at USA Outdoors (71.34m/234-1)...ranked #6 in U.S. by T&FN...best of 79.14m/259-8.
2004: 13th in Flight #2 qualifying at Olympic Trials (63.75m/209-2)...best of 70.77m/232-2.

Olympic Experience

1-time Olympian;

Olympic Games Beijing 2008, 25th (Javelin Throw - Men)

World Championships Experience

Most recent: 2009 – 17th (Javelin Throw - Men)
Years of participation: Javelin Throw - Men 2009
Top finish: 17th – 2009 (Javelin Throw - Men)

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