Ridge Dowe

position Throws
class Senior
Hometown Bluffton, S.C.
High school May River HS

position Throws
class Senior
Hometown Bluffton, S.C.
High school May River HS

Academic Highlights

2023 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2022 SEC Academic Honor Roll

Season and Career Results

2023

Indoor

Competed in four meets during the indoor season, all in the weight throw … Made his Gamecock debut at the Gamecock Opener, placing second in the weight throw following a distance of 16.38m (53-9) … Posted his indoor personal record at the Carolina Challenge the following week, throwing 16.50m (54-1.75) to finish seventh.

Outdoor

Appeared in four outdoor meets, throwing the hammer … Made his outdoor Gamecock debut at the Weems Baskin Relays when he placed fifth after throwing 52.60m (172-7) … Recorded his personal best in the hammer throw at the SEC Championship where he finished 17^th overall with a distance of 53.78m (176-5).

2022

Indoor

Did not compete.

Outdoor

Did not compete.

2021
Indoor

Did not compete.

Outdoor

Did not compete.

Pre-South Carolina
High School

Helped his school win a state title his senior year … Was named the MVP for his team his senior year … Was the runner-up in the discus in 2019 at the state championships … Won the ICE Award in 2019 … Won a GPA Award in 2018 … Was a four-year letterman in track and field and football … Was on the Honor Roll in all four years of high school … Was a member of his school’s National Honor Society and Beta Club.

Personal

Is majoring in Exercise Science and hopes to go to Med school … His father Adam was a football player at Emory and Henry … His mother Liz was a college golfer at the College of Charleston … Has a younger sister Macey … Was born to his parents Adam and Liz on Dec. 10, 2001.

Personal Records

Indoor