Free Republic

Mason Finley, Buena Vista High School senior, smashed the national high school discus record by more than two feet Saturday during the High Altitude Challenge in Alamosa. Finley threw 236-feet 6-inches, out-distancing the 2001 record set at 234-feet 4-inches by Niklas Arrheniusor of Orem, Utah. Finley surpassed the Colorado record and his personal best April 20 during the Gunnison Invitational with a throw of 223-feet 4-inches, but April 23 during the Buena Vista Invitational he threw the disc 214 feet. He has signed to compete on the University of California Los Angeles track team next season.

<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. - Al Oerter was destined to become an athlete, although he often wondered what he might have been if not for a chance meeting with a discus.</p> <p>"I could throw a baseball, a football or a golf ball a country mile," Oerter told the Associated Press in an interview last year. "It was just easy to throw anything."</p>