Eli Vasen

Weight:
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Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Ocean Township, N.J.
High School:
Ocean Township

2024 T&F at UNC: Competed at four meets during indoor season in weight throw ... Recorded a personal best of 17.64m at the Penn State National Open ... Moved into the No. 8 spot on the UNC all-time performers list for weight throw ... Qualified for the ACC Indoor Championships in the weight throw, placing 19th with a top throw of 16.80m ... Did not compete during the outdoor season.

2023 T&F at UNC: Competed in outdoor season in both the hammer throw and discus ... Had a season-best hammer throw of 56.65m at the Tom Jones Memorial at the University of Florida ... Best discus throw of the year was 48.73m at the ACC Outdoor Championships, where she finished 11th ... Also competed at ACC Outdoors in the hammer throw, finishing 15th at 52.95m.

At Yale: Elected sole team captain for the 2021-22 season ... Second-team All-Ivy League and Academic All-Ivy during outdoor senior season (2022) ... NCAA East Regional Preliminary qualifier in discus in 2022 ... School record holder in indoor and outdoor shot put and hammer throw ... Team MVP in 2019 ... CoSIDA Academic All-District in 2022.

Prep: A graduate of High Technology HS in Lincroft, N.J., who played sports at Ocean Township HS.

Personal: Parents, Jodi and Art Vasen ... Has a brother ... At Yale, worked in a lab and conducted research related to phage therapy ... Was the president of Supporting Student-Athletes At Yale (SSAY), the queer student-athlete group on campus, for two years ... Enjoys drinking coffee, audiobooks, knitting and watching reality television ... Favorite fruit is watermelon ... Worked as an Uber Eats driver during the summer of 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown ... During that time, he also volunteered at the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen to deliver food once a week to immunocompromised and elderly residents of the greater New Haven, Conn., area ... Favorite athlete is Raven Saunders ... dream job is to be a physician-researcher in infectious diseases. A graduate transfer from Yale University, where he earned a BS in ecology and evolutionary biology with distinction in the major ... A first-year grad student with junior athletic eligibility in 2023.