Piers Cameron

Position:
Throws
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Marietta, Ga.
Prev School:
Southern Mississippi
High School:
Pope

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Awards and Accolades

Second Team All-American, indoor shot put (2026)
Sun Belt champion, indoor shot put (2026)
NCAA East First Rounds qualifier, shot put (2024, 2025)
Sun Belt champion, outdoor shot put (2025)
Sun Belt Second Team All-Conference, indoor shot put (2025)
Sun Belt Third Team All-Conference, outdoor shot put (2024)
Sun Belt Third Team All-Conference, indoor shot put (2024)

Collegiate PRs
Shot Put: 19.68m | Indoor Music City Challenge (Feb. 13-14, 2026)
Discus: 52.42m | Golden Eagle Invitational (April 26-27, 2024)
Hammer Throw: 46.02m | Southern Miss Invitational (March 31 – April 1, 2023)
Weight Throw: 17.66m | Vanderbilt Invitational (Jan. 17-18, 2025)

Season Recaps
2026 (Southern Miss)
Indoor: Won the shot put at six meets, including three marks over 19 meters… Recorded a personal-best shot put of 19.68 at the Indoor Music City Challenge… Won the Sun Belt Conference title in the shot put (18.23m)… Earned Second Team All-American honors with a 16^th place finish in the shot put (18.63m).

Outdoor: Did not compete.

2025 (Southern Miss)
Indoor: Started indoor season by posting a personal best weight throw mark of 17.66 meters at the Vanderbilt Invitational on Jan. 17-18, earning seventh place... Earned second place with a shot put throw of 17.83 meters at the South Alabama Jaguar Invitational on Feb. 2... Finished 2nd in the shot put at the UAB Green and Gold Invite on Feb. 8 with a 17.92m throw... Earned Second Team All-Conference honors with his 18.85m shot put finish at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships on Feb. 24-25.

Outdoor: Earned a win in the shot put event with a 18.45m throw at the Southern Miss Invitational on Mar. 28-29... Went on to win for the second consecutive time in the shot put event, throwing at 18.60 meters at the Joe Walker Invite on Apr. 4-5... Placed third at the LSU Alumni Gold meet with shot put mark of 17.69 meters on Apr. 26... Notched career-high shot put throw of 19.44 meters at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships to secure the win and First Team All-Conference honors on May 8-10... Went on to represent Southern Miss in the NCAA Division I East First Round with a 15^th-place shot put finish at 18.60 meters on May 28-31.

2024 (Southern Miss)
Indoor: Kicked off the indoor season with a first-place finish in the weight throw with a mark of 16.97 meters at the UAB Vulcan Invitational on Jan. 13th... Earned second place at the Robert Platt Invitational in the shot put (17.10m) on Jan. 26-27... Competed in two events at the Sun Belt Indoor Championships, finishing fourth in the weight throw (17.60m) and earning Third Team Sun Belt honors with his third-place finish with a shot put throw of 17.15 meters on Feb. 19-20.

Outdoor: Finished second in both shot put and discus at the Bulldog Alumni Relays on Mar. 21-23... Earned a win in the shot put event at the Southern Miss Invitational with a mark of 17.44 meters on Mar. 29-30... Earned third place in the shot put event at both Crimson Tide Invitational and LSU Alumni Gold meets... Posted his personal best discus throw distance of 52.42 meters and won the shot put (17.95m) at the Golden Eagle Invitational on Apr. 26-27... Competed in the discus event and earned Third-Team All-Sun Belt honors in the shot put event with a 17.83m throw at the Sun Belt Outdoor Championship on May 9-11... Competed in the NCAA East First Round, finishing 36th with a shot put throw of 17.46 meters.

2023 (Southern Miss)
Indoor: Competed in four meets for Southern Miss, including the Sun Belt Indoor Championships, in which he finished with an eighth-place shot put throw of 14.86m and a ninth-place finish in the weight throw event with a 16.67-meter mark on Feb. 20-21.

Outdoor: Made his mark at the Southern Miss Invitational with a career-high hammer throw mark of 46.02 meters, and finished second in both the shot put and discus event on Apr. 1... Finished fifth in the discus throw in the LSU Lloyd Willis Invitational on Apr. 8... Finished 10th in the Sun Belt Outdoor Championships with a shot put mark of 15.99 meters.