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Ohio State Overview
- Carlos is a senior who is majoring in psychology
- 2023 USTFCCCA Outdoor All-American Second Team (discus)
- Moved up to second in program history in the discus by throwing 58.91m in 2023 at the Bobcat Invitational
- 2020-21 OSU Scholar Athlete and Academic All-Big Ten Honoree
- Program record holder in discus (194’0”), breaking the previous record that had stood since 2003
Indoor
- Competed in the weight throw (17.31m) and shot put (17.42m) at the Big Ten Championships
- Recorded three top-eight finishes in the shot put – runner-up at Clemson (18.01m), fourth at Louisville (17.60m) and seventh at the Rod McCravy Memorial (17.52m)
- Totaled two top-six finishes in the weight throw – fifth at Louisville (19.03m) and sixth at the Rod McCravy Memorial (18.12m)
- Also competed in the weight throw at Clemson (18.68m)
- Won two discus competitions – at the Louisville Invite (59.14m) and Jesse Owens Classic (57.63m)
- His Louisville discus mark was the Buckeyes’ best of the season in the event
- Finished sixth in the discus (56.35m) at the Big Ten Championships
- Competed at the NCAA East First Round in both the shot put (17.59m) and discus (55.88m)
- Totaled four top-five finishes in the shot put – third at Jesse Owens Classic (18.19m), third at USF (18.14m), fifth at Raleigh Relays (17.57m) and fifth at Louisville Invite (17.42m)
- Was the discus runner-up at Raleigh Relays (54.53m) and finished sixth at USF (54.58m)
2022-23
Indoor
- Won the shot put competition at the Michigan Invite with a best throw of 18.60m
- Had OSU’s three best weight throw meets of the season, including a season-best 19.14m at the Indiana Relays
- Finished 12th in the shot put (17.59m) at the Big Ten Championships, also competing in the weight throw (18.62m)
- Finished third in the shot put (18.32m) at the Indiana Relays and fourth (18.20m) at the Rod McCravy Memorial
- Finished in the top-nine in all three regular season meets – fourth at the Rod McCravy Memorial (18.34m), sixth at the Michigan Invite (17.65m) and eighth at the Indiana Relays (19.14m)
- Finished 14th in the discus (58.50m) at the NCAA Championships
- Competed in the NCAA First Round in both the discus (56.94m, eighth) and the shot put (18.56m)
- Had a best mark of 51.85m in the discus at the Big Ten Championships
- Posted the seven-best discus meets of the season for Ohio State
- Finished in the top-five in the discus in all four regular-season meets – second at the Bobcat Invitational (58.91m), fourth at the Tom Jones Invite (57.12m), fourth at the Jesse Owens Classic (54.56m) and fifth at the Bulls Invite (53.98m)
- Finished in the top-eight in the shot put in all three regular-season meets – runner-up at the Jesse Owens Classic (18.65m), sixth at the Bulls Invite (17.77m) and seventh at the Tom Jones Invite (18.16m)
Indoor
- Had four of the top-five Buckeye showings in the weight throw and five of the top-10 OSU shot put showings of the season
- Finished eighth at the Big Ten Championships in the shot put (18.74m), also competing in the weight throw (16.86m)
- Finished fourth in the shot put at three separate meets – South Carolina Challenge (17.97m), Rod McCravy Memorial (17.71m) and Big Ten Midwest Invite (17.00m)
- Was the runner-up in the weight throw (19.73m) at the Big Ten Midwest Invite
- Finished sixth in the weight throw at the Rod McCravy Memorial (18.53m) and South Carolina Challenge (18.50m)
- Won the discus throw (56.14m) at the USC Open, also finishing third in the shot put (18.78m)
- Finished fifth (55.49m) in the discus at the Big Ten Championships, also competing in the shot put (16.72m)
- Competed at the NCAA Regionals in both the shot put (18.64m) and discus (53.98m)
- Was the runner-up in the shot put (18.93m) at the Jesse Owens Classic, also finishing third in the discus (54.13m)
- Finished fifth in both the shot put (18.11m) and discus (52.36m) at the Arizona State Baldy Castillo Invite
- Finished fourth in the shot put (18.53m) at the Raleigh Relays
- Named the Ventura County Star’s track and field athlete of the year in 2018 as a junior
- Ninth in the shot put at the 2019 California state championships
- He won eight league titles in the shot and the discus and owns 10 Ventura High throwing records
- Helped Ventura win the 2019 CIF-Southern Section Division 2 championship by taking second in both the shot and the discus
- As a junior, became the first since 1987 to win the CIF-Southern Section Division 2 championship in both the shot put and the discus
- Ranked No. 2 nationally in the shot and No. 3 nationally in the discus as a high school junior
- Competed at the New Balance national championships
- Played football up until his senior season, when he turned to track and field fulltime
- Season Bests (I): 16.52/54-2 ½ (Shot Put)
- Season Bests (O): 17.13m/56-2 ½ (Shot Put), 50.83/166-9 (Discus)
