2011 Outdoor: Threw the shot put a season-best 14.35m to finish fifth, took eighth in the hammer throw with a mark of 44.00m and finished 13th in the discus with a throw of 39.00m at the Horizon League Championships…took 16th place in the hammer throw with a season-best mark of 45.66m and claimed tenth in the shot put (13.70m) at the Northeast Ohio Quad…threw the shot put 14.01m and the discus 34.42m at the Sparky Adams Invitational.
2010 Indoor: Finished fifth in both the weight throw (16.09m) and the shot put (15.20m) at the Horizon League Indoor Championships…both throws were season-best marks…moved into seventh on YSU’s Top Ten for the weight throw…placed third in the weight throw at the Tom Wright Classic with a mark of 15.50m…finished fourth at the Robert Morris meet after throwing the shot put 15.12m.
2009 Outdoor (Sophomore): Threw the shot put 14.84m (48-8 ¼) to finish fifth, claimed sixth in the hammer with a toss of 46.08m (151-2), and finished ninth in the discus with a mark of 40.59m (133-2) at the Horizon League Championships ... threw the shot put 14.46m to take fifth in the event at the Detroit Titan Classic ... also finished ninth in the hammer (38.11m) at the event ... had three top-10 finishes at the Sparky Adams Invite, including a seventh-place finish in the hammer (44.27m) ... took seventh in the shot put (14.84m) and eighth in the hammer (41.64m) at the Northeast Ohio Quad ... added a 13th place finish in the shot put with a distance of 14.13m (46-4 ¼) at the Saint Francis Red Flash Open.
2009 Indoor (Sophomore): Finished fourth with a throw of 14.45m (47-5) in the shot put sixth in the weight throw with a heave of 14.91m (48-11) at the Horizon League Championships ... claimed third in both the shot put (14.81m) and weight throw (15.74m) at the Robert Morris Sixway ... finished the weight throw in fifth with a mark of 14.24m (48-6 ¾) at the Kent State Triangular ... also threw the shot put 14.61m (47-11 ¼) to finish sixth at the meet ... added third-place finish in the weight throw (49-5) and a seventh-place finish in the shot put (46-6 ¾) at Baldwin-Wallace ... threw a season-best mark of 15.27m (50-1 ¼) in the weight throw at the Kent State Tune-Up.
2008 Outdoor (Freshman): Finished fourth in the shot put (4-9 1/4) and eighth in the hammer (152-5) at the Horizon League Championships ... his throw in the hammer was a personal-best ... heaved the shot a personal-best 48-9 1/2 at the Red Flash Open ... threw the discus 119-1 at the Northeast Ohio Quad.
2007-08 Indoor (Freshman): Finished fifth in both the shot put (47-8) and weight throw (52-8 1/4) at the Horizon League Championships ... his weight throw mark was a personal-best ... was the only freshman to score in both throwing events ... threw the shot put a personal-best 49-11 1/4 at the Baldwin Wallace Mid February Meet ... earned five top-eight finishes in the weight throw and four in the shot put.
High School: Earned four letters for the Quakers ... set the Metro Athletic Conference shot put record ... finished second at the Ohio state meet in Division II in the shot put (55-10) as a senior ... also finished seventh in the shot as a junior ... was Salem's Field MVP all four years ... also named MVP at the MAC and Columbiana County championships.
Personal: Son of Claye and Julia Folger ... has one sister (Gabby) ... born March 9, 1989 ... academic interest is mechanical engineering.
