Sam Liokumovich Season 2023-24
PositionTHROWS
ClassSenior
HometownRiverwoods, Ill.
TFRRS Performance Profile
Career Accolades
- Two-time USTFCCCCA All-Academic (2022, 2023)
- Four-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (winter 2022, 2023; spring 2022, 2023)
Personal Bests (thru 2023 outdoors)
- Shot put: 59-8 1/2i (18.20m)
- Discus: 168-6 (51.37m)
As a Senior (2023)
Outdoors
- Did not compete
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Earned a season-best in the shot put of 58-9 1/2 (17.32) to win the Spokane Invitational
- USTFCCCA All-Academic
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
As a Junior (2022)
Outdoors
- Placed 10th at the Pac-12 Championships in the shot put
- Won the shot at the Cardinal Classic and won the collegiate discus at the Stanford Invitational
- USTFCCCA All-Academic team
- Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll
Indoors
- Reached personal best in the shot with a 59-8 1/2 (18.20m) to place third at the Don Kirby Invite
- The mark moved him to No. 4 on Stanford's all-time indoor list
- Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll
As a Sophomore (2021)
Outdoors
- Did not compete
Indoors
- Did not compete
As a Freshman (2020)
Outdoors
- Season canceled
Indoors
- No. 10 Stanford all-time indoors (shot put)
- Threw personal best of 55-1 1/2 (16.80m) to place seventh at MPSF Championships
- Made collegiate debut with 54-9 1/4 (16.69m)
Prior to Stanford
- Third at 2019 New Balance Outdoor Nationals in the shot put
- Threw PB of 65-2 1/4 (19.86m) at New Balance Outdoor Nationals
- Seventh at 2019 New Balance Indoor Nationals in the shot
- 2019 Illinois state 3A champ at Deerfield High School
- Broke brother Igor's school shot put record
- Deerfield High team won five team Suburban League championships, indoors and outdoors
Personal
- Parents are Bora and Alla Liokumovich
- Brother, Igor Liokumovich, was among the top throwers in Harvard track and field history
- First generation American
- Brother was born in Minsk, Belarus, and parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1993
Career Results
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Region | NCAA |
| 2023 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (3) | SP | 58-9 1/2 (17.91) | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2022 | Outdoors (7) | SP | 57-5 3/4 (17.52) | 10 (57-5 3/4) | -- | -- |
| DT | 168-6 (51.37) | 165-5 (50.52) | -- | -- | ||
| JT | 136-3 (41.53) | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (5) | SP | 59-8 1/2 (18.20) | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2021 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2020 | Outdoors (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Indoors (3) | SP | 55-1 1/2 (16.80) | 7 (55-1 1/2) | -- | -- |