Big throws lead to summer state contest

The Let’s Throw Big throwing team from Grayson County punched their ticket to the 2025 Texas Amateur Athletic Federation Summer Games of Texas.

Nine of the team members, representing Collinsville, Van Alstyne and Gunter, earned the opportunity to compete in the Bryan-College Station area with Top 5 finishes at the TAAF Region 7 Regional Meet in Princeton on July 10.

“We’ve had a great summer,” Let’s Throw Big head coach Mike Hall said. “We qualified nine people for the state track meet and eight of them qualified in the shot [put] and the discus. … Our objective is to get better every year, and we started out just wanting to get better and now we’re good throwers and the objective is to be great.”