The championship was won after the first throw.
With his first throw of the day, Wichita State freshman Taran Taylor secured the javelin title at the USATF Junior Championships with a mark of 233 feet, 2 inches over the weekend in Bloomington, Ind.
The victory qualifies Taylor to the 2018 IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Tampere, Finland on July 10-15.
"I knew going in that I needed a good one in my first three throws to put pressure on everybody else," Taylor said. "Whenever I hit that first throw, I knew it was a good one.