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Overall Shot Put Career Best: 19.76m (64-10.00)
Collegiate Indoor Best: 19.56m (64-02.25)
Collegiate Outdoor Best: 19.33m (63-05.00)
• 2016 Rio Olympian, Team USA (shot put, 5th place)
• Team USA member for 2017 World Championships in London (shot put, 10th place)
• 2017 U.S. Champion (Shot Put; 19.76m/64-10.00, fourth-best in U.S. history)
• Four-time NCAA Champion (Indoor: 2015, 2017; Outdoor: 2015, 2016)
• Seven-time All-American
• One of only three women in NCAA history to break 19 meters indoors and the first to do so outdoors
• First woman in NCAA history to break 19 meters twice in the same series
• NCAA overall and meet record holder indoors at 19.56m (64-02.25) at 2017 NCAA Championships
• Owns six of the top-10 all-time NCAA marks indoors
• NCAA overall and meet record holder outdoors at 19.33m (63-05.00) at 2016 NCAA Championships
• Owns best NCAA mark out of season at 19.76m (64-10.00) at 2017 U.S. Championships
• Owns the top four throws in or out of season among collegiate athletes all-time
• Ranks fourth in U.S. history on both indoor and outdoor lists
• 2017 USTFCCCA Women's Indoor Co-National Field Athlete of the Year
• Runner-up at 2016 U.S. Olympic Trial
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New Orleans musician offers kids trumpets for guns
NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans trumpeter, vocalist and bandleader is offering kids trumpets in exchange for guns.
Shamarr Allen started the project last week, after a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed and two teens wounded, news agencies reported.
“I have a 9-year-old son and I grew up in that environment so I understand what those kids are going through. They aren’t bad kids, they just don’t have anything to do,” Allen told WVUE-TV.
So — after checking with police to make sure that he wouldn't get any kids in trouble and would be able to give police the guns for safe disposal — he posted a note on his Instagram account: “To all the youth in New Orleans, Bring me a gun and I’ll give you a trumpet no questions asked.”
Allen told WWL-TV that his life changed when he was 12 or 13 and first played for tips in the French Quarter.
“I realized, ‘OK, I can do this,’” he recounted. "Now, I’m the world, this is my career because of that trumpet. So if it can do that for me, it can do that for someone else.”
He quickly ran through trumpets he owned but wasn't using. Other people offered to help. Then he started an online fundraiser with a $6,500 goal. By Tuesday afternoon — four days in — he'd raised $8,800 for trumpets costing abou