2025 Track & Field Roster

Amanda Spear

  • Position Throws
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Last School(s) Thousand Oaks HS/UC Santa Barbara
  • Hometown Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Biography

CAREER BESTS:
Shot Put (Out): 12.60m (41-4)
Shot Put (In): 11.94m (39-2)
Discus: 50.58m (165-11)
Hammer: 59.34m (194-8)
Weight: 18.29m (60-0.25)

CAREER HONORS
  • 2025 USTFCCCA All-Academic
  • 2x All-ACC Academic
  • 1x Big West Conference All-Academic
 
2025 (Outdoor): Threw in six meets for Cal… posted a hammer mark of 55.85m/183-3 at the NCAA West Regional… threw the hammer 58.43m (191-8) at the ACC Outdoor Championships… recorded a personal best of 59.34m (194-8) in the hammer and a season-best 47.27m (155-1) in the discus at The 130th Bigi Meet… threw the hammer 58.47m (191-10) at the Mt. SAC Relays… USTFCCCA All-Academic… All-ACC Academic.

2025 (Indoor): Threw the weight in four meets… posted a mark of 17.51m (57-5.5) at the ACC Indoor Championships… at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational, recorded a throw of 18.29m (60-0.25)... Indoor All-ACC Academic.

UC SANTA BARBARA (2020-24): Owns the No. 3 spots on UC Santa Barbara’s all-time discus and hammer lists… 2023 Big West runner-up in the discus and hammer after a season in which she posted six combined victories… 2022 Big West Conference All-Academic.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2019 All-State with a sixth-place finish in the discus at that year’s California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Championships… that year, she took first place in the discus at the CIF-South Section Division 2 Finals… two-time Marmonte League discus champion (2018-19)… 2018 Marmonte League shot put runner-up… also played soccer.

PERSONAL: Earned graduate certificates in business administration and entrepreneurship… daughter of Julie and Mark Spear… father Mark played football at Washington… sister Kristen Spear was a goalie at Sonoma State.