Mission Viejo High Grad Snatches National Record

A 2011 Mission Viejo High grad has set a new national junior college record in the hammer toss.

Saddleback College sophomore Julia Reedy put her name in the history books with a 192-foot, 1-inch throw at the Tiny Lister Invitational at Cal State Los Angeles Friday.

Saddleback now holds the top two women's hammer throws and the top throw for men. (The men's record was set by by Remy Conatser in 2012 with a throw of 217 feet, 4 inches).

At Mission, Reedy was team MVP in basketball in 2009. She was voted Best Field Athlete for the Diablos in track & field in 2011. She plans to major in kinesiology.

Last year as a freshman, Reedy finished 5th in the state in hammer throw.

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Saddleback women's hammer thrower Julia Reedy broke the national junior college record on Friday at the Tiny Lister Invitational at Cal State Los Angeles. Reedy's toss of 58.56 meters broke the old record set by Saddleback's Liz Tepe last season.

Reedy had been improving in every meet and was within four feet of Tepe's mark heading into the meet on Friday. She then went out and shattered the record by over five feet, setting the new standard with a toss of 192' 1". 

Tepe set the national record a season ago at the very same Tiny Lister Invitational when she threw the hammer 56.92 meters (186' 8") on April 14, 2012, breaking the old record set by Michelle Amete of Mesa College in Arizona in 2006.

Reedy is a sophomore thrower from Mission Viejo High School.