Sport: Track (discus)
Age: 28
Local connection: Lives in Denver
Previous Olympics: None
How made Team USA: Won Olympic Trials June 28
2012: 10th at adidas Grand Prix
Career highlights: Brooks led the Olympic Trials finals in every round but did not have the required Olympic A standard until his last throw when his . Brooks went to Millikin University in Illinois, where he played basketball and dabbled in track.
After college he continued to throw the discus while working a variety of jobs — as many as seven at one time — and , when he finished third at the U.S. Outdoor Championships and qualified for the world championships, where he finished 13th. Since then he has begun to realize he has the talent to excel at the international level and has been pursuing that wholeheartedly.
