California Institute of Technology

Phil Conley excelled at Caltech as a member of the Track & Field, Football, and Basketball teams.  An NCAA champion, and three-time SCIAC champion in javelin, Conley earned a total of eight All-SCIAC honors across the traditional tri-sports and served as captain of each team in his senior year.  Immediately following his graduation, Conley went on to represent the United States and Caltech at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.  At that year's summer Games, Conley qualified for the Final Round at the Olympic competition with a throw of 68.50 meters, then recorded a 69.74 mark for his farthest throw at the Games, briefly ranking 9^th before finishing the competition in 10^th position.  

He continued competing well after that summer, earning a silver medal in the 1959 Pan American Games and recording a career-best throw of 79.30 meters in 1964, before finally hanging up his competitive spikes and earning an MBA from Harvard.  While he continued to compete in masters meets, Conley also served as an assistant coach at Stanford.