6/16/08

Truman’s Rashaud Scott wins the NCAA discus for Kentucky Wildcats

By Jack Pfeifer

DES MOINES, Iowa – Rashaud Scott, a graduate of Truman of the Bronx, won the NCAA discus throw for the University of Kentucky on Friday here on the campus of Drake University.

He became the first PSAL graduate ever to win the event, and the first to win any NCAA throwing event since the legendary Gary Gubner, who went to DeWitt Clinton (Bronx), won the shot put for NYU in 1963 and 1964. (In addition, Ken Bantum won the shot put in 1956 for Manhattan College after graduating from John Adams, Ozone Park, Queens, and Bernie Mayer of the Bronx won the 1946 shot put for NYU after spending World War II in the Marine Corps.)

“I played football and did track in high school,” said Scott, a 6-foot-5, 290-pound junior. “I played defensive end four years in football, and in track I did shot and discus.

“But I didn’t throw discus much. I threw it maybe five times all of high school. I’d throw it off a beat-up circle, like at Clinton, where we had some of our meets. My high school PR was about 135 feet.”