2025 -- Indoor - Placed third in shot put with a collegiate-best 54-8 1/4 (16.67m) at Jimmy Grant Alumni Invite... President’s List and Dean’s List student (Fall 2024).
2024 -- Track – Did not compete… President’s List student (Spring 2024)… Dean’s List student (Fall 2023, Spring 2024).
High School -- Two-time state discus champion… shot put state champion… three-time discus district champion… 2023 Drake Relays discus champion… holds the discus school record set in 2023 (195′ 1″)… coached by Tyler Decker, Janet Thyne, and Bob Oberfoell… all-state basketball player… golfed for three seasons… KWWL Best of Class 2023… National Merit Commended Scholar… AP Scholar with Distinction… 2022-2023 IBCA Academic All-State team… student body president.
Personal -- Born June 3, 2005… parents are TJ and Janet Faley… father TJ played football at Iowa… one sibling – Nick… business major.
TIFFIN, Ohio – University of Iowa track and field sophomore Ryan Johnson crushed his previous program record at the Robinson Family Open in Tiffin, Ohio, with a 24.59-meter throw. Johnson’s heave is the second-farthest in NCAA D1 in 2025.
Track and field concluded the New Mexico Collegiate Classic and Iowa State Classic with record-setting performances from Ryan Johnson in the weight throw and the women’s 4x400 relay team of Alivia Williams, Chioma Nwachukwu, Damaris Mutunga, and Olicia Lucas.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa track and field opened day one of the annual Larry Wieczorek Invitational on Friday. Alivia Bauer, Alli Bookin-Nosbisch, Lia Love and Miles Wilson claimed event titles for the Hawkeyes.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa track and field kicked off the Hawkeye Invitational at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex on Friday afternoon. Sophomore Ryan Johnson set a program and facility record with a 24-meter throw that ranks first nationally in his debut.
IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa track and field opened its 2024-25 campaign with throwing events on day one of the Jimmy Grant Alumni Invitational inside the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex on Friday afternoon. Junior Sean Smith set a new school record in the men’s weight throw, hitting 22.49 meters on his final throw.
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