Tyler Yeastedt

Tyler Yeastedt

  • Award
    Field Performer
  • Week Of
    2/22/2016
  • Sport
    Men's Track and Field
  • School
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Year
    Senior
  • Position
    Throws
  • Hometown
    Merrimac, Mass.
  • High School
    Central Catholic
RPI senior Tyler Yeastedt had two victories in the Utica College Pioneer Invitational, both of which established facility records in the recently completed Hutton Sports & Recreation Center. He captured the shot put with a distance of 15.79 meters and then won the weight throw at 17.75 meters. Yeastedt defeated 26 others in both events, going 1.68 farther than the runner-up in the shot and 1.60 more than the second place finisher in the weight.