2007 NCAA Champion (Hammer Throw)
2007 Outdoor:
2007 Indoor: Earned a top five finish in every weight throw competition in which he competed, including a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships with a mark of 21.57m (70-9.25) ... Finished second at the SEC Championships with a mark of 21.49m (70-6.25) and second at the Tyson Invitational with a mark of 21.87m (71-9) ... Threw the weight 21.19m (69-6) at the Indiana Relays for a second-place finish ... Opened the season with a 20.82m (68-3.75) mark in the finals of the weight throw at the Clemson Invitational to place third ... Posted a personal-best mark of 17.20m (56-5.25) to finish ninth in the shot put at the SEC Championships ... Also competed at the Tyson Invitational and the Clemson Invitational in the shot put and finished 13th and third, respectively.
2006 Outdoor: Redshirted
2006 Indoor: Earned All-American honors in the weight throw by placing fifth at the NCAA Championships with a mark of 22.17m (72-9) ... Set the Auburn school record (broken by Corey Martin at the NCAA Championships) in the weight throw at the Cyclone National Qualifier with a winning throw of 22.36m (73-4.5) ... At the SEC Championships, placed fourth in the shot put (18.18m, 59-7.75), but fouled in the weight throw ... Finished third in the weight throw and seventh in the shot put at the Tyson Invitational ... Won the weight throw and was third in the shot put at the Clemson Invitational, and was second in the shot put and fourth in the weight throw at the Kentucky Invitational.
At Miami (Ohio): 2004 and 2005 All-American in the hammer throw ... Finished seventh at the NCAA Championships in the hammer throw as a sophomore, and was sixth as a freshman with a school-record throw of 213-7 ... All-MAC First Team in 2004 and 2005 ... MAC hammer throw champion both years ... All-Ohio champion in the hammer throw as a freshman ... won four of the nine hammer events he entered as a sophomore, including wins at UC Irvine, Cincinnati, the Southern Ohio Cup and the MAC meet ... Also won the weight throw at Indiana indoors and the shot put outdoors at the Miami Invitational ... Eclipsed the school record for the first time, reached an Olympic `B' Standard and qualified for the NCAA Championships with a hammer throw of 210-5 at the NCAA Regionals as a freshman ... Placed eighth in the shot put at the conference meet as a freshman ... Qualified for regionals in the hammer at every meet he competed in as a freshman, winning five-of-six times ... Also qualified for the 2004 regionals in the shot put, taking second at the Southern Ohio Cup. High School: At the Late Summer Throws Classic, threw 219-0 in the hammer, breaking his own Georgia state record ... His distance ranked number two in the nation ... At the Adidas Outdoor National Meet in Summer of 2003, placed in the top six in three events, finishing third in the hammer throw, fifth in the discus and sixth in the shot put ... Also competed at the Junior Nationals, taking seventh place in the hammer throw ... Named All-America in the hammer and weight throws, as well as the shot put ... earned Junior All-America status in the hammer ... At the state level, broke the state record for the hammer, an event that netted a state championship ... Was a three-time state champion in the discus, and won state once each in the weight and shot put as well ... honored as the Atlanta Track Club's Discus Man of the Year as a junior, and repeated as a senior ... Helped his team to a pair of second-place finishes at the state meet and three regional championships ... Personal bests: Shot Put (60-5), Weight Throw (70-7), Discus (183-0), and Hammer Throw (219-0). Personal: Son of William and Karen Dunkleberger ... Born October 6, 1984 ... majoring in business administration. Personal Bests: Weight Throw - 22.36m (73-4.5), Shot Put - 18.18m (59-7.75) |
  
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