Thanksgiving Day has brought with it the excitement and fun of the holiday season. From wandering around pumpkin patches, taking part in pie-baking contests, or spending quality time with loved ones, everyone has their own special way of celebrating the day of gratitude.

Amid such festivities on Thanksgiving this year, one NCAA Hammer Thrower took celebrations to a whole other level. He lit up the skies with the perfect burning shot, and he did so with an added fiery Thanksgiving twist!

NCAA Hammer Thrower adds a Thanksgiving twist to a blazing shot

In a recent post on X, a handle named Beau Throws treated track and field fans to a Thanksgiving Day spectacle. The account posted a video of Cory Martin, who is a former two-time NCAA champion hammer thrower and shot putter. And the caption of the video reads, “A hammer thrower never lets a burned turkey go to waste.” In the epic video, Martin was seen swinging an unlikely object for a throw, and it turned out to be a whole turkey ablaze in a fire!

With his intense strength, he swung the blazing bird yards away across a field, adding a Thanksgiving twist to the sport. This is not the first time the man in the video, Cory Martin, has displayed such talent. Martin is a talented track and field athlete from Bloomington, Indiana, whose blazing NCAA career over the years has earned him the much-deserved position as an NCAA throw coach.

The talented Cory Martin’s journey from athlete to coach

Cory Martin was a formidable athlete who made waves in the world of hammer throwing and shot put. He made America proud and placed ninth at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, achieving his best international outing. Yet his accomplishments extend beyond the global stage. A proud NCAA athlete at Auburn University, he was an All-American nine times and also claimed two National Championships in 2008 in two disciplines: shot put and hammer throw.

Notably, these two victories at the NCAA championships were the first time since the 1930s that an athlete had done so in the two events at the same meet. After a successful career as an athlete, he moved to mentoring and had nine seasons of coaching from 2014 to 2023 at Indiana University. And now he has become an integral part of and the throws coach at the University of Louisville.

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Welcoming him on board on July 30, 2023, the University of Louisville states on its website, ?He brings an enthusiasm and expertise that will be integral to our throws group and help him to lead our student-athletes to new heights.? This same enthusiasm saw the former throw champion trend online with his recent Turkey Thanksgiving twist!

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