Jaynee Corbett has won six Horizon League Track and Field throwing-event titles since February 2016. Corbett is being honored as the 2016-17 YSU/The Vindicator Female Athlete of the Year.
Corbett, who will be looking to add to her total on May 5-7 when YSU plays host to the Horizon League Outdoor Track & Field Championships, has won four indoor titles and two outdoor events in that span. As of April 24, she ranks first in the shot put and discus and second in the hammer throw in the Horizon League this outdoor season.
She has season-best throws of 50.89m in the hammer, 46.22m in the discus and 15.45m in the shot put during this year’s outdoor campaign. Her marks in the hammer and discus are career-best efforts. Currently she has a spot in the shot put for the NCAA East Preliminary meet which will be held in late May.
At the indoor championships she has been dominant the past two years. She is one of three Penguins to win the weight throw and the shot put at the same HL meet. Corbett joins Bethany Anderson - the 2006-07 YSU Female Athlete of the Year - as the only pair of Horizon League throwers to win both events at consecutive meets.
In 2017, she won the shot put with a throw of 14.91m and the weight throw with a heave of 18.40m. At the Horizon League meet she was named the Co-Outstanding Field Performer. For her efforts during the campaign she was named the Alfreeda Goff Horizon League Track and Field Athlete of the Year. Â In 2016, she won the shot put with a toss of 15.44m and the weight throw with a heave of 16.40m.Â
During last year’s outdoor campaign, she won two events at the league meet and placed second in another. Her 28 points earned her the Total Point Champion honor for the meet. She had winning throws of 45.52m in the discus and 15.29m in the shot put. Her toss of 47.40m in the hammer throw placed her second. She went on to finish 28th at the NCAA East Preliminary in the shot put.
Her 2015 campaign was cut short by a season-ending knee injury in January that forced her to miss the indoor and outdoor seasons.
As a freshman in 2014, she was third in the weight throw and fourth in the shot put at the Horizon League Championships. During the outdoor meet she was second in the shot put, fifth in the discus and 10th in the javelin. Corbett was named the Horizon League Women’s Field Freshman of the Year at the outdoor meet.
As a Penguin, she ranks second in school history in the shot put, fourth in the discus and sixth in the hammer throw in outdoors. She holds the indoor shot put mark and is second in the weight throw as well.
A native of Corry, Pa., she is the recipient of the 2016-17 Penguin Club Athletic Scholarship. Corbett owns a 3.51 grade-point average in Criminal Justice. She is the daughter of Connie and Fred Corbett.
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