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Incoming Alemany freshman Nia Britt sets national shot put record--twice

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Nia Britt, who will soon start her freshman year at Alemany, set a national Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics record Friday in New Orleans.

But she wasn’t done. She then broke her own record.

The fun started when Britt put the shot 50 feet 5 inches on her third attempt, breaking the national record of 49-8.25 set by Kamorean Hayes of Charlotte, N.C., in 2003.

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Britt then established another record on her fitth attempt, with a toss of 51-6.25. She became the first pre-high school girl from California to crack 50 feet, and she did it twice in the same day.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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