Matt Banse

Class: RS Freshman Hometown: Strawberry Point, IA High School: Starmont

Event: Throws

2008 -- Track - redshirted... recorded season bests in shot put (52-1 3/4), weight throw (49-1) and hammer throw (163-10) while competing unattached.

High School -- four-time state champion and six-time conference champion... three-time elite all-state, all-conference and all-district... won Drake Relays shot put title senior year, placing second as a junior... set school shot put (61-4) and discus (173-11) records... coached by Doug Guilford and Matt Lee... lettered four years in baseball, two in football and one in wrestling... National Honor Society member... honor roll student.

Personal -- born January 29, 1988... son of Tom and Bonnie Banse... his older brother Andy was a four-year letterwinner in track (2002-05) at Iowa... sports studies major.