University of South Alabama Athletics

2018: Outdoor— Earned a top-five hammer throw finish and four points at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championships with a season-best 57.64m mark … Won the shot put at three meets: the South Alabama Invitational (16.08m), Samford’s Alabama Track Challenge (16.48m) and the Jaguar Classic (15.39m) … Finished second in the Jaguar Opener shot put event with a 15.43m throw … Had a 54.41m hammer throw to finish second at the South Alabama Invitational … Placed third in the hammer throw at Auburn’s Tiger Track Classic (56.09m) and Samford’s Alabama Track Challenge (56.77m).  Indoor— Claimed fifth place at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships with a 16.47m shot put mark … Finished fourth in the shot put at the 2018 Samford Invite (15.85m) and the South Alabama Jaguar Invitational (16.11m) … Took the runner-up spot with a 16.47m shot put mark and fifth place with a 15.89m weight throw at Samford’s January Invitational … Opened the indoor season with a personal-best 16.88m shot put effort to win the event at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Invitational. 

2017: Outdoor— Finished fifth with a 15.71m throw in shot put at the South Alabama Invitational and had a personal-best 17.10m effort in the weight throw to place fifth at the same meet. Indoor— Placed ninth at the Sun Belt Conference meet in the weight throw (16.67m) and seventh in the shot put (16.60m) ... Had a 16.93m throw at the Samford Invite to place eighth in weight throw and finished fourth in shot put with a 15.92m mark ... Placed sixth in the weight throw (16.48m) and fifth in shot put (14.53m) at the UAB Blazer Invitational. 

2016: Outdoor— Finished seventh in the Sun Belt Conference Championships hammer throw with a toss of 56.45m … Placed fifth in the hammer with a throw of 54.43m at the War Eagle Invitational … Finished fourth in the hammer at the Jaguar Opener with a throw of 52.04m. Indoor— Finished fourth at the Jaguar Invitational with a 14.02m shot put effort … Placed 10th in the weight throw in his college debut with a mark of 14.79m at the Commodore Invitational. 

2015: Was a redshirt his first year with the program.

High School: Lettered in football and track and field for four years at Oneonta High School … Was the AHSAA 4A State Champion in the shot put … Won the AHSAA 4A Section 3 championship in the shot put and came in second place in the discus … Holds the school record for longest shot put throw … Was also a member of the football team, which finished as Alabama state runners-up in 2011 and 2012 and won the state championship in 2013.

Personal: Full name is Thomas Allen Boyd … Born Sept. 18, 1995, in Birmingham, Ala. … Son of Reese and Tracy Boyd … Is the middle child of three children; has a twin brother, Ethan, and a younger brother, Riley … Favorite sports team is the Baltimore Ravens.

Major: Medicine