Akeel Hanchard

Photo by: Abby Forster / Mean Green Sports

Position:
Throws
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Kingston College
Hometown:
Kingston, Jamaica

TFFRS Bio

Personal Bests

Javelin

66.23m

Honors and Awards
• 2025 All-AAC (Javelin)
• 2024 All-AAC (Javelin)

2025 Outdoors
Placed third at the AAC Championships to earn all-conference honors in the javelin for the second consecutive season ... Used a career-best throw of 66.23 meters on his third attempt at the conference meet to move onto the podium ... Also became the third-best performer in the event in school history ... Qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Round for the first time where he finished No. 33 ... Recorded top-five finishes in four of the five meets he participated in ... Logged a runner-up finish behind Vitus Hansgaard at the Bill Schmidt Invite.

2024 Outdoors
Recorded top-10 finishes in each of the five meets he appeared in ... Finished on the podium at the conference championships for the first time in his career with a third-place throw of 59.43 meters ... Posted a season-best throw of 61.18m to take third at the Corky/Crofoot Shootout ... Took sixth at the Texas A&M Invite and ninth at the Texas Relays.

2023 Outdoors
Made two appearances for North Texas in the javelin throw ... Won the UTA Invitational with a throw of 61.27 meters.

2022 Outdoors
Only competed at the UTS vs. UNT Dual ... Placed second at the meet with a career-best mark of 64.85 meters.