CORRECTED - Ohio Boys' All-Time - Shot Put - Outdoor Top 50

JAVMAN83

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I've been working on the all-time boys' outdoor shot list in the past week. Loading all the 60-foot plus putters in Ohio history, and it's been fascinating to see how many boys have crossed the 60-foot line since Ohio's first 60-footer, Martin Eisner (Cleveland Heights), in 1963.

Here's some interesting stats for you. Not ready to publish the list as yet, but this is what I know.

#1 - 72' 8" - Charles Moye (Akron Ellet) - 1987
#10 - 67' 4 ¼" - John Maurins (Mentor) - 2014
#30 - 64' 1" - Aamil Wagner (Wayne) - 2022
60-footers: more than 100

I'm still loading data, but feel confident about the top-30.
 
 
JAVMAN83

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Seek Up said:
I never would have guessed that many.
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I wasn't sure, but when you look that we're 60 years post the first Ohio 60-footer, and 71 years (1952) since the first nationwide 60-footers (2 of them in 1952, the first year), it's not all that surprising on an average of less than 2 a year. I'm compiling the yearly Ohio bests along with the listing, and there aren't many years with the yearly best under 60 feet, but sometimes there are gaps as large as 13 feet between 1st and 2nd, as was the case in 1987 when Moye set the 72' 8" Ohio record.
 
JAVMAN83

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My list now includes 110 boys who have put the shot 60 feet or more.

#50 is 62' 2 ½" by Jeff Glos of Amelia back in 1975. 1965 State Champion and the 4th boy over 60 feet in Ohio, Dave Foley (Roger Bacon), sits @ #51 with his 62' 1 ½" at the GCL in May 1965.

Still reviewing old lists & results.
 
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Ok, here's my first stab at the all-time top 50 performers with the top 30 performances shown. Still working on filling out the all 60-foot list or better, and will publish that once it's done. No time frame on that.
 

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EuclidandViren said:
And more...

I won't finish my sentence. But he should not be included on any high school list for any record in my opinion.
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Did Moye also have some of those issues just after high school?

With their great throws history, I was expecting to see Fitch athletes grab 2-3 of those spots. But unless I overlooked one they are not represented.
 
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Newton's Third said:
Did Moye also have some of those issues just after high school?

With their great throws history, I was expecting to see Fitch athletes grab 2-3 of those spots. But unless I overlooked one they are not represented.
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The best Fitch shot put I have is Chaka Wallace down for a tie in the #99 slot at 60' 3".
 
JAVMAN83

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Since nobody has noticed a several glaring omissions on my part in the boys' shot list, I'll call myself out for the unintended omission in the #4 slot.

Liberty Center's Nick Demaline (2014) is the #4 putter of all-time in Ohio with his 68' 10 1/2" State Division III record at his regional in 2014.
Apologies to Mr. Demaline.

Also, Georgetown's Jess Adamason with his 63' 5 3/4" win at the 2013 MMOC meet was missing.

The list has been updated. Mack Tudor, State Division I OHSAA discus record-holder, is now #50 at 62' 6".
 
Lancermania

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On #22, you have the district meet listed in red, You are correct. Larry Kolic's put is listed in the Official State meet program from June 5, 1981 at 64'9". Just so everyone knows, in 1981 what is now the regional meet was called the district meet back then. Kolic would go on to win the 1981 Class A state meet breaking his own state meet record from 1980 of 58'5¾" with a put of 62"0¾"
 
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A couple spelling corrections for your top 50.

No "S" on the end of DJ Duke's last name.

2 "Ts" on the end of Brian Hallett's last name (according to his own twitter account).

Larry Kolic's 64' 9" put that Lancermania alluded to was indeed at the 1981 District (He threw 63' 10" at the sectional) on May 30, 1981 at Cuyahoga Hts.
 
JAVMAN83

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Thank you, gentlemen! I knew I could count on the collective knowledge of the community to come through. The file has been updated.
 
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Also for Brian Hallett, his HS is simply Norton.


For Dan Pribula, I've found conflicting information. Your list has him at 63' 6". Strongsville's school records list him with a put of 63' 6.5". In the baumspage archives, I found him as having the meet record for the Jackson Twilight Invitational at a distance of 63' 6.5". The 2003 invite results are not available. However, the mark printed in both the Canton and Akron papers for that meet credited him with a put of 63' 3". So many ways a better mark may have been overlooked, especially if he was already winning by a large margin. Who knows? That's as good as I can do from home. Regardless, any of those 3 distance is farther than what he threw in the postseason, his conference meet (Pioneer Conference, R.I.P.), or the Penn Relays. That edition of the Jackson Twilight Invitational occurred on May 9, 2003. This would be the Jackson HS known outside of my area as Massillon Jackson, so as not to be confused with the Jackson HS in SE Ohio. Incidentally, if the school was 1/4 mile farther east across Rt. 241, it would be Canton Jackson.

The link to an archived page from the Jackson Twilight:


The 2003 Twilight results from the Canton Repository:
Jackson Twilight Invitational

Friday

BOYS

Team standings

1, Wadsworth 74.5; 2, Perry 64; 3, Strongsville 62.3; 4, Lake 60; 5, Copley 56; 6, Austintown Fitch 43.8; 7, Jackson 42; 8, Akron Central Hower 33; 9, Orrville 24.3; 10, Akron Firestone 23.5; 11, Alliance 22; 12, West Holmes 17; 12, Green 17; 14, Akron Garfield 16; 14, Marlington 16; 16, Minerva 12; 17, Manchester 10; 17, Poland Seminary 10; 19, Claymont 9.5; 20, Louisville 7; 21, Fairless 3; 22, Tuslaw 1.

Individual results

Shot put—1, Pribula (Str) 63-3; 2, Steele (Fit) 52-3; 3, Bing (Per) 52-21/2. Discus—1, Deemeio (Man) 157-0; 2, Steele (Fit) 154-10; 3, Pribula (Str) 152-10. Long jump—1, Smith (Cop) 22-4; 2, Tolbert (J) 20-113/4; 3, Riddick (CH) 20-11. High jump—1, Smith (Gr) 6-3; 2, Manley (CH) 6-2; 3, Forshee (Cop) 6-2. Pole vault—1, Chromnowski (Wad) 14-0;2, Alexander (Wad) 14-0; 3, Goodrich (Cop) 13-6. 3,200-meter relay—1, Wadsworth (Pesto, Finneran, Starkey, Hiltner) 7:54.13; 2, Lake 8:09.07; 3, Perry 8:14.53. 110 hurdles—1, Oyer (Lak) 14.97; 2, Simon (CH) 15.51; 3, Duignan (Gre) 15.55. 100—1, Tale (Fit) 11.18; 2, Williams (Fit) 11.21; 3, Davis (All) 11.22. 1,600—1, Haltner (Wad) 4:30.63; 2, DiRuzza (Mar) 4:32.01; 3, Synk (Str) 4:34.83. 400 relay—1, Central Hower (Manley, Simon, McGhee, Riddick) 44.22; 2, Lake 44.31; 3, Perry 44.39. 400—1, M. Bailey (Lak) 49.96; 2, Brown (Orr) 50.24; 3, Hardison (Fir) 50.29. 300 hurdles—1, Carbon (Pol) 39.44; 2, Oyer (Lak) 40.13; 3, Cox (Min) 40.19. 800—1, Kollar (Str) 1:54.29; 2, Garro (Lak) 1:56.07; 3, Davis (Cop) 1:56.95. 200—1, Hardison (Fir) 22.42; 2, Davis (All) 22.56; 3, Cook (Per) 22.85. 3,200—1, Adams (Per) 9:41.54; 2, Manning (Jac) 9:45.17; 3, Dezso (Cop) 9:49.67. 1,600 relay—1, Strongsville (Bikerman, Kollar, Schnear, Navy) 3:24.89; 2, Perry 3:25.52; 3, Lake 3:26.28.
 
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JAVMAN83

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Thank you, Mr. Slippery. I, too, had found that 63' 3" mark. Hadn't looked at Strongsville website (?) for the school records as yet. The 63' 6" mark I have comes from High School Track 2004 from T&F News. I've found them with some errors before, but they, like us, are dependent on accurate and non-conflicting reporting. Can't tell you how many countless hours I've spent trying to resolve conflicting info from the last 120 years of data. I'm tending to think the correct mark is 63' 6" at a minimum and 63' 6 1/2" at the maximum. I haven't found any other meets of his that might lead me to believe he'd had two winning marks with only 1/2" difference between. Note: I have run across that before where a leading shot putter had two meets only 1/2" apart during the same season. I don't think this is the case, however.

I'm going to leave the mark as 63' 6" for now, but will list it in RED type face with a footnote listed within the spreadsheet I have created. The footnote won't show up in the PDF version, however.
 
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Anyone have any info on Burt Wood's best of 62' 10 1/2" from 1996? Tragically, Burt passed away in December of 2022 at the young age of 44. I'd like to honor him by having the full information on his HS best included.
 
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I noted that at that same Jackson Twilight was one Ashley Muffet, now Ashley Kovacs, wife/coach of Joe Kovacs, and new mother of twins.
 
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JAVMAN83 said:
Thank you, Mr. Slippery. I, too, had found that 63' 3" mark. Hadn't looked at Strongsville website (?) for the school records as yet. The 63' 6" mark I have comes from High School Track 2004 from T&F News. I've found them with some errors before, but they, like us, are dependent on accurate and non-conflicting reporting. Can't tell you how many countless hours I've spent trying to resolve conflicting info from the last 120 years of data. I'm tending to think the correct mark is 63' 6" at a minimum and 63' 6 1/2" at the maximum. I haven't found any other meets of his that might lead me to believe he'd had two winning marks with only 1/2" difference between. Note: I have run across that before where a leading shot putter had two meets only 1/2" apart during the same season. I don't think this is the case, however.

I'm going to leave the mark as 63' 6" for now, but will list it in RED type face with a footnote listed within the spreadsheet I have created. The footnote won't show up in the PDF version, however.
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JAVMAN83 said:
Anyone have any info on Burt Wood's best of 62' 10 1/2" from 1996? Tragically, Burt passed away in December of 2022 at the young age of 44. I'd like to honor him by having the full information on his HS best included.
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I'm on the case, but I think that's going to be a hard one to find. Not a lot of newspapers covering that area or era that I can find in the various newspaper databases. Thus far, I can rule out regionals and the Mehock Relays as the site of Wood's best throw. Mansfield paper also mentioned Wood's best throw of the season before Mehock was 58' and change, so you can eliminate any meets prior to April 20 or whatever date that year's Mehock Relays occurred (traditionally 3rd Sat. in April). My best guess would be either his district meet or conference meet, but as you know, throws like that can happen anywhere at any time.
 
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I'm on the case, but I think that's going to be a hard one to find. Not a lot of newspapers covering that area or era that I can find in the various newspaper databases. Thus far, I can rule out regionals and the Mehock Relays as the site of Wood's best throw. Mansfield paper also mentioned Wood's best throw of the season before Mehock was 58' and change, so you can eliminate any meets prior to April 20 or whatever date that year's Mehock Relays occurred (traditionally 3rd Sat. in April). My best guess would be either his district meet or conference meet, but as you know, throws like that can happen anywhere at any time.
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I'm going to contact someone who I know was one of Wood's athletes at Rio Grande and see if I can get a lead there.

You and I came across the same info you've listed. Certain parts of the state (particularly Cleveland) have newspapers that are hard to find online.
 
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JAVMAN83 said:
I'm going to contact someone who I know was one of Wood's athletes at Rio Grande and see if I can get a lead there.

You and I came across the same info you've listed. Certain parts of the state (particularly Cleveland) have newspapers that are hard to find online.
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Here's another piece to the Burt Wood puzzle: Wood's state record put occurred at Ironton. However, I can't come up with an exact date or meet.

 
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From looking at past meet records for the DII SE District meet where Wood would have competed as well as the SEOAL meet (GA was a charter member in 1925 until leaving in 2016, 1 year before the league folded), Wood's record put could not have occurred at either the district or the SEOAL meets. I combed older meet results on MileSplit and the Baumspage archives to piece together that information.
 
JAVMAN83

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Mr. Slippery said:
From looking at past meet records for the DII SE District meet where Wood would have competed as well as the SEOAL meet (GA was a charter member in 1925 until leaving in 2016, 1 year before the league folded), Wood's record put could not have occurred at either the district or the SEOAL meets. I combed older meet results on MileSplit and the Baumspage archives to piece together that information.
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Thank you for your efforts. There is much of the research that I have done that has required hands-on research at local libraries over the past 13-15 years , and this may require me to make a trip out to the Ironton area to find such. I try to coordinate those types of trips viewing multiple libraries in a day-long trip.
 
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I got it! It was the district meet after all. Had to be a meet of at least 5 teams to be recognized as an OHSAA record. Article was from May 20 (I assume Gallipolis paper had no Sun. edition), so I’ll guess the date was May 18.

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Thank you, Mr. Slippery! That did take some digging, but I congratulate you! Glad for Burt & his family to add this to the list.

The file has been updated.
 
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