2009 USATF Youth Hammer Throw Training Grants

Since 2005 more than $16,000 in the USATF Youth Hammer Throw Training Grants has been awarded to 16 boy and 14 girl youth hammer throwers from 12 to 17 years of age. Awards are determined by a three-person selection committee's review of the applicants' three-page application form which requires training and competitive statistical information, a brief essay describing his/her hammer throwing goals, and a letter of support from the applicant's coach/parent.

For the 2009 season 14 girls and 8 boys applied for training grant assistance. Seven girls and seven boys were awarded training grants totaling $6,300.

Athletes Awarded 2009 USATF Youth Hammer Throw Training Grants:

All donation proceeds from approximately 100 individual contributors' support the USATF Youth Hammer Throw Grants Program and the distribution, through DVDs, of hammer throw coaching information and strategies for youth coaches.

Help the USATF Youth Hammer Throw Fund

The USATF Youth Hammer Throw Fund is always looking for donations to help support our mission of getting another American hammer thrower on the Olympic podium. To continue disseminating authoritative hammer throw coaching information across the country and to add a donation incentive to the 2009 USATF Youth Hammer Throw Fundraiser, donors will get two DVDs Harold Connolly recent compile:

• Hammer Throw Training, 3 Turn / 4 Turn (3.68 GB)
• Youth Hammer Throwing, A and B (2.70 GB)

For more information about donating and the DVD, read the following links:

• How You Can Support American Youth Hammer Throwing (Donation Form).
• Training and Coaching DVDs;