KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Oregon Tech’s Hunter Drops was named the NAIA Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week, the national office announced Thursday.
Drops, a junior from Coos Bay, Ore., competed at the CCC Decathlon Championship, presented by U.S. Bank, where he finished second. He won the javelin event with a mark of 70.93, which now leads the NAIA by 25 feet and is No. 20 on the US list for the Olympic trials.