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| Full name | Carol Jean L. Moseke | ||||||||||||||
| Born | March 8, 1945 (1945-03-08) (age 80) Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Carol Jean L. Moseke Frost (born March 8, 1945, inCedar Rapids, Nebraska) is a femaletrack and field athlete from theUnited States, competing in thediscus throw. She represented her native country at the1968 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the women's discus throw event at the1967 Pan American Games inWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
She was a four-time champion in the women's discus at theUSA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Following the Olympics, Moseke returned to Nebraska and married Larry Frost, a former Nebraska football player, and from 1977 to 1980, Carol Frost coached the Huskers' women's track and field team. Among her first athletes wasMerlene Ottey, who won the firstAIAW Championship for the Nebraska program. Ottey went on to win the most women'sOlympic track and field medals ever.[1]
Later, she got out of coaching track to coach football alongside her husband and eventually coached her sons Steve Frost andScott Frost during their days as high school stars at Wood River High School. Steve, a former college lineman and long snapper at Colorado State and Stanford, is the public address announcer for Stanford Football home games, a job he's done for over 20 years. Scott quarterbacked the1997 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team to anational championship, before becoming offensive coordinator at theUniversity of Oregon, and later becoming the head coach at theUniversity of Central Florida and theUniversity of Nebraska.
As Carol Frost, she has continued to compete into theMasters age groups. She holds the currentAmerican record in the W65, W70, and W75 Shot Put; the W60, W65, W70, and W75 records in the Discus; and the W65, W70, and W75World record in the Javelin.[2]
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