Peter Shmock

Peter Shmock ( ; Peter Carlton "Pete" Shmock; born April 29, 1950, in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American track and field athlete, primarily known for throwing the shot put, and former Seattle Mariners coach. Currently Shmock is a personal trainer at Zum (stylized "ZUM"), a Seattle health club he founded in 2002. High school and college athletics Shmock went by "Pete" throughout his high school, college, and Olympic shot-put career. In 1968, while attending San Dieguito High School Academy in Encinitas, California, Shmock won first place in the California State Championships and threw 62-1 3/4 to finish fifth at the Golden West Invitational. From 1969 to 1972 Pete Shmock competed on the University of Oregon's track and field team, the Ducks, coached by Olympic team coach Bill Bowerman. Shmock did exceptionally well at the university's annual Twilight Meet, telling a reporter, "'This is the first meet this year I've really got psyched for.'" In 1970 he broke 60 feet for the first time in his college career, and in 1971 he threw a personal best of 63-2 3/4. He threw 64-11 1/2 in 1972, setting a new personal best and qualifying him for the Olympic trials. Ranking sixth in the U.S., Shmock did not travel to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics. He finished second in shot put in the NCAA that year, and he threw a lifetime best in the hammer throw of 166-11.