Columbia University Athletics

2023-24 (Senior): (ITF) Won SP with 17.02m at Rutgers Holiday Classic, WT PR of 15.93m at Fastrack National Invite, competed in final round of SP at Ivy League Heps Indoor T&F Championships. (OTF) Competed in SP at Penn Relays, scored 6th place finish in SP at Ivy League Heps Outdoor T&F Championships, went on to extend season and throw SP PR of 17.40m at Yale Twilight Meet.

2022-23 (Junior): (ITF) Tossed a personal best in the weight throw with distance of 47-5.25/14.46m at Dartmouth v. Columbia v. Yale, placing 12th (Jan. 21) … Participated at Heps in the shot put, finishing 14th place with a mark of 51-0/15.54m (Feb. 25-26) … (OTF): Tossed a PR mark of 117-10/35.91m in the discus, placing 12th at Mets Outdoor TF Championships (Apr. 8) … Competed at the 2023 Springtime in shot put and hammer throw… Took 1st place in SP with a personal best mark of 56-4/17.17m.. Threw a personal record distance of 147-11/45.08m in HT, placing 7th (Apr. 30)

High School: Three-time letterwinner in Track & Field and Football at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Georgia ... 2019 Georgia State Champion (Shot Put); Section Champion (Shot Put) and Region Champion (Shot Put) ... 2020 Gwinnett County Super Six ... 2019 Second Team All-Gwinnett County ... Played on the offensive and defensive line in Football ... Member of the 2017 Georgia State Championship Football team ... Recipient of the Linda Jones Memorial Scholarship ... Named the 2020 WSB TV Scholar Athlete of the Year.

Personal: Born, Yoosang Kim, on Sept. 5, 2001 in Seoul, South Korea ... Son of Eunkyung An and Bo Kim ... Has one sibling, Hyosang (20) ... Family immigrated from South Korea ... Received nickname "Eugene" (idea came from Disney series "Tangled") from Football teammates due to Yoosang sounding similar ... Can play the violin ... Received recruiting attention from fellow Ivy League programs Yale and Brown, along with Shorter; Oberlin; Bowdoin; Iowa; USC and Emory ... Went with Columbia because of "the demographics, the location of the campus and the surrounding life of New York City" ... Will enroll in Columbia College ... Plans on majoring in Nuclear Physics.

High School Personal Best:
Shot Put - 57-5.00
Discus Throw - 143-2.00