Benjamin Benito GARCIA

Benny Garcia finished third in the AAU javelin throw in 1956 and fifth in 1957. At the NCAA Meet, representing Arizona State, he finished sixth in 1955. In his senior year, he was voted MVP of the ASU track team. Garcia had actually started at New Mexico A&M on a football scholarship, but stayed there only briefly. After the 1956 Olympics, he served two years in the US Navy, and then started a career in sales with Bankers Life of Nebraska, which led to other work as a broker until his retirement in 1995.

Personal Best: JT – 73.94 (242-7) (1956).