Ellis Neighbors

Career Honors and Recognition
2025 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll

Season and Career Results

2025

Indoor

Did not compete during the indoor campaign.

Outdoor

Threw the javelin in eight different meets during the season … Tossed 63.68m (208-11) to close his season out at the NCAA East Regional, finishing 24^th overall … Just missed out on scoring at the SEC Outdoor Championship after he placed 10^th with a distance of 63.61m (208-8) … Made his first outdoor collegiate appearance in the Weems Baskin Invitational, finishing third overall in the javelin after throwing 62.77m (205-11) … Threw the seventh farthest distance in Gamecock history at the Florida Relays, tossing 64.11m (210-4) to place ninth … Won the Gamecock Invite javelin throw after throwing 61.00m (200-1).

Pre- South Carolina
High School
Earned three letters in track & field, three letters in football and four letters in the marching band at West Florence High School in Florence, S.C. … Threw the javelin, discus and shotput for the Knights, holding the school record in the javelin with a throw of 181 feet … Won the 2024 All-State Javelin Award and is a two-time West Florence Field MVP winner (2023 & 2024) … 2024 Javelin All-American and was a 2024 South Carolina 4A Javelin State Champion … 2024 South Carolina 4A Javelin Lower State Champion as well as Region 6 Javelin Champion … 2024 South Carolina 4A Region 6 discus champion as well … Three-time SC 4A Region 6 Track & Field Champion (2022-24) … 2023 South Carolina 4A Track & Field State runner-up.

Personal
Son of Nathan and Ashley Neighbors, born on May 8^th, 2006 … Has two siblings, Anderson and Luke … Was part of the Beta Club and the National Honors Society … Was awarded the Principal’s Award … Plans to major in Exercise Science with the career goals of becoming a physical therapist … Comes to Carolina as a Palmetto Fellow Scholar, Meeting Street Scholar, Dean’s Scholar, Capstone Scholar and has earned the USC STEM Scholarship.

Personal Records

Outdoor