Michelle Carter
Event: Shot Put
Height: 5-9
Weight: 210
PR: 19.13m/62-9.25 (2009)
Born: 10/12/1985
Current Residence: Ovilla, Texas
High School: Red Oak High School '03
College: Texas '07
Coach: Michael Carter/Jon Drummond
Agent: Karen Locke
Sponsor: Nike
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Career Highlights: Three-time USA Outdoor champion ('08, '09, '11); 2006 NCAA Indoor champion; 2005 and 2010 USA Outdoor runner-up; 2005 NCAA Indoor & Outdoor Runner-up; 2004 World Junior Champion; Two-time USA Junior Champion ('03, '04); 2003 Pan American Juniors gold medalist; 2001 World Youth silver medalist; high school outdoor record holder
Carter edged out Jillian Camarena-Williams by one centimeter at the 2011 USA Outdoor Championships to win her third outdoor title in the event. Her winning throw of 19.86m/65-2 was the third-best throw by an American ever. Carter finished sixth in the final of the women's shot put at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships with her third round throw of 18.96m/62-2.5. Her sixth-place finish is the highest by an American since Connie Price-Smith finished fifth in 1997. Carter made her first Olympic Team as an elite athlete, winning the women's shot put with a personal-best and U.S.-leading mark of 18.85m/61-10.25 at the 2008 Olympic Trials. In becoming an Olympian, she follows in the footsteps of her father, 1984 Olympic shot put silver medalist and boys' high school record holder Michael Carter. Carter collected her first NCAA shot put title at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Champs, winning the event with a then personal-best toss and University of Texas record of 18.56m/60-10.75. She was Texas’ first NCAA indoor shot put champion since 1994. Carter set a huge personal best of 18.26m/59-11 to take silver at the 2005 USA Outdoors. She also won silver at 2005 NCAA Indoors and Outdoors. Carter won the first-ever gold medal in the women’s shot put for Team USA at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, Italy, with a personal best of 17.55m/57-7. Carter is the national prep record-holder in the shot put at 16.73m/54-10.75, while her father, Michael, set the still-standing national boys prep record of 81-3.5 in 1979. She was a four-time Texas 4A state champion in the shot put, also set state record in the discus. Carter won silver at 2001 World Youth in shot put, throwing 15.23m/49-11.75. Her father Michael was a standout football player and shot putter at SMU who played many years for the San Francisco '49ers. She has one sister, D'Andra, who is a thrower at Texas Tech, and one brother, Michael, Jr.
2011: USA Outdoor champion in the shot put (19.86m/65-2)
2010: USA Outdoor runner-up (18.46m/60-06.75)…USA Indoor runner-up (18.03m/59-2i)…12th in qualifying at World Indoors (18.20m/59-8.5i)…1st at Texas Invite (18.43m/60-5.75)…4th at Shanghai (18.79m/61-7.75)…7th at Paris (18.17m/59-7.5)…5th at Monaco (18.70m/ 61-4.25)…1st at Goteborg (18.80m/61-8.25)…ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 18.80m/61-8.25.
2009: 6th at World Outdoors (18.96m/62-2.5)...USA Outdoor champion (18.03m/59-2)...1st at Reebok Grand Prix (18.43m/60-5.75)...1st at Zaragoza (18.44m/60-6)...1st at Jim Bush Invite (18.35m/60-2.5)...2nd at Stockholm (19.13m/62-9.25PR)...ranked #7 in the world (#1 U.S.) by T&FN...best of 19.13m/62-9.25.
2008: 15th at Olympic Games (17.74m/58-2.5)...6th in qualifying (18.49m/60-8)...Olympic Trials champion (18.85m/61-10.25)…1st at Triton (17.99m/59-0.25)…1st at Provo (18.71m/61-4.75)...ranked #1 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.85m/61-10.25.
2007: 5th at USA Outdoors (17.57m/57-7.75)…5th at NCAA Outdoors (17.23m/56-6.5)…ranked #6 in the U.S. by T&FN…best of 17.57m/57-7.75.
2006: 3rd at NCAA Outdoors (17.91m/58-9.25)...Big 12 Outdoor champion (17.98m/59-0)...NCAA Indoor champion (18.56m/60-10.75)...2nd at Big 12 Indoor champs (17.30m/56-9.25)...ranked #5 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 17.89m/59-0.
2005: USA Outdoor Championships runner-up (18.26m/59-11)...2nd at NCAA Outdoor Champs (17.06m/55-11.25)...2nd at NCAA Indoor Champs (17.86m/58-7)...ranked #2 in the U.S. by T&FN...best of 18.26m/59-11.
2004: 2004 World Junior gold medalist (17.55m/57-7)2004 USA Junior champion (16.33m/53-7).
2003: 1st in Texas 4A state meet, setting the U.S. high school record (16.73m/54-10.75)... 1st at USA Juniors (16.05m/52-8)... 1st at Pan Am Juniors (16.23m/53-3).
2002: 1st in Texas 4A state meet (16.25m/53-3.75)... 3rd at USA Juniors (16.24m/53-3.5)... 1st at USA Junior Olympics (15.59m/51-1.75).
2001: 2nd in SP at World Youth (15.23m/49-11.75)... 1st in Texas 4A state meet (15.14m/49-8.25).
2000: 1st in Texas 4A state meet (14.76m/48-5.25)