11 Facts About Peter Shmock

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Peter Shmock is a retired American track and field athlete, primarily known for throwing the shot put, and former Seattle Mariners coach.

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Currently Shmock is a personal trainer at ZUM, a Seattle health club he founded in 2002.

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Peter Shmock went by "Pete" throughout his high school, college, and Olympic shot-put career.

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From 1969 to 1972 Pete Peter Shmock competed on the University of Oregon's track and field team, the Ducks, coached by Olympic team coach Bill Bowerman.

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Peter Shmock graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's in social science in 1973.

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Peter Shmock ranked among the top six shot putters in the AAU and the US Nationals from 1974 to 1980.

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Peter Shmock met Olympic hurdler Patrice Donnelly in 1975, and the pair's July romance in Montreal was well-publicized at the time.

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In 1983 Peter Shmock joined the Seattle Mariners as a weight-training coach, and from 1994 until 1999 he was a conditioning coach for the male and female dancers of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

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Peter Shmock made a weight training video with pitcher Mark Langston in 1989, and in 1990 Mariners head trainer Rick Griffin wrote the introduction for Weight Ball Training, a paperback Peter Shmock co-authored with Eric Swenson.

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Peter Shmock was cast in two Professional Sports Training for Kids videos: Football with Dan Fouts in 1990 and Baseball with Ken Griffey Jr.

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Peter Shmock opened Zum, his "long-awaited new health club" on May 1,2002.