Calabar’s Traves Smikle Smashes Discus Record at Penn Relays

Smikle (left) and Mattis celebrate their big day with Bill Cosby (photo by Kim Spir)

Traves Smikle of Calabar (Jamaica) shattered the meet record in the high school boys discus championship today with a toss of 228′ 2″ (69.55 meters). The previous record was 191-11 (58.50), set  last year by Chad Wright, also of Calabar.


Second-place finisher Samuel Mattis (East Brunswick, NJ) was also beyond the meet record, with  201′ 2″ (61.32).