2022-23 Men's Track & Field Roster

Carol Chen
Carol Chen
Carol Chen

Sam Coil

  • Class Graduate Student
  • Position Throws
  • Hometown Sturgeon Lake, Minn.
  • High School Moose Lake Community
  • Twitter samsoncoil
  • Instagram cam_soil

Biography

Honors: 2023 Second-Team Indoor All-American ... 2023 Big Ten Indoor champion in the weight throw ... 2021 NCAA West Preliminary Round qualifier in the hammer ... ranks second at UW in the weight throw with a personal best of 73-9 1/2 ... ranks second at UW in the hammer with a throw of 219-10
 
Personal Bests
 Indoor Track  Outdoor Track
 Shot Put  58-8 3/4 (17.90m)  2/28/21  Shot Put  57-0 1/4 (17.38m)  4/10/21
 Weight Throw  73-9 1/2 (22.49m)  2/17/23  Hammer  219-10 (67.00m)  4/12/23

TFRRS Profile: SDSU  |  TFRRS Profile: Wisconsin

2023 Outdoor Track: Wrapped up this season finishing 16th in the hammer with a toss of 217-8 at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds (May 24-27)...finished fourth in the hammer throw with a toss of 213-3 at the Big Ten Championships (May 12)...won the hammer throw with a toss of 219-4 at the Wisconsin Classic (May.5) ... finished ninth in the hammer throw with a toss of 207-5 at Penn Relays (April 27-29) ... won and recorded a personal best in the hammer throw with a toss of 219-10 at the Cal State LA Twilight (April 12-13) ... finished 10th in the hammer with a toss of 216-2 at the Beach Invitational (April 14-15)...finished third in the hammer throwing a personal best of 206-5 at the Stanford Invitational (Mar. 31-April 1)

2023 Indoor Track: Placed ninth in the weight throw with a toss of 72-0 3/4 at the NCAA Championships (March 10) ... won gold in the weight throw with a toss of 73-7 1/4 at the Big Ten Championships (Feb.24-25) ... won the weight throw with a personal best of 73-9 1/2 at the Badgers Valentine Invite (Feb.17) ... won the weight throw with a toss of 72-3 1/2 at the Windy City Invite (Feb.10-11) ... placed second in the weight throw with a toss of 71-6 3/4 at the Indiana Relays (Jan.27-28)...won the weight throw at 72-1 1/2 at the Wisconsin Midwest Invite (Jan.14)

2022 Outdoor Track: Placed second in the shot put (51-10 1/2) and finished fifth in the hammer (197-1) at the 2022 Jim Click Shootout (April 8-9) ... finished fifth in the shot put (50-4) and placed fourth in the hammer (198-10) at the Oregon Relays (April 22-23) ... finished third in the hammer with a toss of 187-11 at the UW-Whitewater Drake Alternative (April 29) ... finished second with a UW personal best of 200-9 in the hammer at the Wisconsin Classic (May 6)... placed 13th in the hammer throw with a toss of 193-9 at the Big Ten Championships (May 13-15)

2022 Indoor Track: Placed fourth in the weight throw with a distance of 70-6 1/2 at the Big Ten Championships (Feb. 25) ... won the weight throw with a personal best distance of 71-2 3/4 at the Badger St. Valentines Open (Feb. 18) ... finished third in the weight throw with a distance of 68-7 at the Windy City Invitational (Feb.11) ... won the weight throw with a distance of 67-7 at the Red Hawk Invitational (Feb. 5) ... won the weight throw at 68-1 1/2 at the Illini Invite and Multi (Jan. 15)

2020-21 Outdoor (at SDSU): Placed 40th in the NCAA Division I West Prelims in the hammer throw with a toss of 190-11 ... took fifth overall at the Summit League Championships in the hammer with a hurl of 190-3 ... set a personal best in hammer while taking sixth at the USD Early Bird meet with a toss of 201-3, which ranks second at SDSU

202-21 Indoor (at SDSU): Logged a PR in the shot put (58-8 3/4) at the Summit League Championships to finish sixth... launched a season-best weight throw of 67-3 1/4 at the SDSU Jim Emmerich Alumni Invitational

2019-20 Outdoor (at SDSU): Season canceled due to COVID-19

2019-20 Indoor (at SDSU): Grabbed a season's best in the shot put at the SDSU Holiday Invite and Multi with a throw of 56-8 1/2 to take fifth … finished third in the weight throw at the Jim Emmerich Invitational … threw a season best 63-9 1/2 in the weight throw to finish second at the SDSU Indoor Classic … finished 11th in the shot put at the Summit League Championships with a mark of 54-1 and took eighth with a throw of 59-3 1/2 in the weight throw

2018-19 Outdoor (at SDSU): Picked up a hammer throw season's best of 174-7.0 at the South Dakota Challenge … took third in the shot put with a throw of 48-10 3/4 at Sioux City Relays … took another third place with a mark of 51-1 in the shot put at the Red Raider Open … finished second in the shot put at 53-0 3/4 at the USD Twilight … capped the season with a PR of 152-4 in the discus at Howard Wood Dakota Relays

2018-29 Indoor (at SDSU): Competed in 13 events … finished fourth in the shot put at the SDSU DII Invitational with a mark of 51-0 1/4 … finished fourth in the shot at the North Dakota Open throwing for a distance of 53-11

2017-18 Outdoor (at SDSU): Redshirted ... best shot put mark of the season (53-8 1/4) at the Howard Wood (5/4-5), finishing third ... placed third (53-3 3/4) at the Mount Marty (4/25), and won (50-10 3/4) the NSU Twilight (4/20) after being fifth (52-6 3/4) at the Sioux City Relays (4/12-13) and fourth (52-7 1/2) at the USD Invite (4/11)

2017-28 Indoor (at SDSU): Redshirt season ... finished 18th in the shot put at 51-5 at the SDSU Classic (2/9-10) ... placed sixth overall (49-8 14) in the shot put at the SDSU Last Chance (2/16) ... notched his best mark in the weight throw at the Last Chance, finishing sixth (53-11 3/4)

High School: Earned all-conference in shot put three years (sophomore-senior) and in discus two years (junior-senior) ... placed fifth in the shot put at the 2015 state meet and third in the 2016 state meet ... state participant in 2017 in shot put and discus ... academic all-state in track and field three years (2015-2017)

Personal: Parents are Kevin and Majella Coil ... has two siblings--Julianna and Isaac ... born March 3 ... graduated from SDSU with a degree in economics with a minor in accounting ... currently a graduate student in accountancy

Why Wisconsin?

"I chose Wisconsin for its excellent master of accountancy program and its winning athletic tradition."

Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Redshirt Senior

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  • 2022-23Graduate Student

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