Thrower Weston Cottrell invented a gerund to celebrate a teammate’s big day in the javelin.
“Hey, if I get a PR (personal record), I’m going to call it ‘Odling,’” he said.
That sounds good to Damien Odle, who highlighted Friday’s Shocker Open with a school-record throw of 240 feet, 8 inches in the javelin. That throw beat his personal best by 19 feet and ranks No. 16 nationally.
Odle, a junior from Greensburg, won the NJCAA javelin last year at Cowley College with a throw of 201-9. He came to WSU and kept pushing that number, throwing 221-5 on April 30 at the Rock Chalk Classic.