Ht
5'
11"
Class
Senior
Hometown
Oakland,
Nebraska
Last School
Fremont High School
Roster Years
2000-2002
Personal
- Born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Parents are Steve and Candy Beachler and Roxanne Porter
- Majoring in History Teaching
Before BYU
- Two-time High School All-American in the shot put
- Set the Nebraska high school record as a senior with a throw of 52'09.50"
- Three-time state champion at Fremont High
- 1996 and 1997 Gatorade regional Player of the Year
- 1997 USATF Junior Olympic champion
- Former state powerlifting champion
- Member of National Honor Society for two years
Other College
- 1998: Red-shirted season at Nebraska due to knee surgery.
- 1999: Indoor All-American in the shot put while at the University of Nebraska. . . fourth in the Big 12 indoors and third in outdoors
BYU Hall of Fame
Freshman Year
Sophmore Year
2000
Indoor:
- Third in the shot put at Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships, setting personal best of 51'11". . .
Outdoor:
- Second in the shot put at the 2000 Outdoor MWC Championships.
Junior Year
2001
Indoor:
- Fifth in the shot put at the Minnesota Classic, throwing a distance of 45'06.50"
- Finished fifth at the Mountain State Games in the shot put with a throw of 45'09.25"/13.95m
- Placed second in the shot put (49'05.00"/15.06m) at the Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships
Outdoor:
- Second-place finish in the shot put at the Cal Poly Invitational with a throw of 46'05.00"/14.15m
- Finished fourth in the shot put (51'00.50"/14.65m) at the Baldy Castillo Invitational
- Won the shot put with a throw of 47'04.25"/14.43m at the UTEP Invitational
- Won the shot put at the Texas Relays with a throw of 49'01.75"
- Won the shot put (45'00.50"/13.73m) at the BYU Cougar Invitational
- Placed second in the shot put (45'09.50"/13.95m) and fourth in the discus (146'01.50"/44.54m) at the Weber State Invitational
- Finished third in the shot put at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational with a throw of 48'07.25"/14.81m
- Fifth-place finish at the Drake Relays in the shot put with a throw of 49'04.50"/15.05m
- Won the shot put (47'07.25"/14.51m) and placed fourth in the discus (151'04.00"/46.12m) at the Robison Invitational
- Won the shot put (49'04.00"/15.04m) and placed second in the discus (145'09.00"/44.42m) at the Utah Collegiate Challenge
- Second place finish in the shot put at the Mountain West Conference Outdoor Championships with a throw of 49'08.25"/15.14m
Senior Year
2002
Graduate Year
Redshirt Year
Medical Redshirt Year