User:SpencerDog99

About Me
I am a student and athlete who lives in the greater Seattle area. I am completing my last term earning my AA in Fire Science. Hopefully, I will start working part-time as a firefighter this summer as work online completing my Bachelor degree in Fire Administration through Columbia Southern University.

I have been competing in the shot put and discuss events for 5 years. This was supposed to be my sixth and final year throwing competitively but the track season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For those of you who have not heard much about shot put and discus, "The shot put event originates from heavy stone throwing competitions in England and Scotland during the 15th century and was included in the first modern Olympiad of 1896 in Athens." I started throwing shot put and discus my freshman year of high school. My senior year I had the second farthest throw in shot put and the third best in discus in the State competition. I hold my high school’s records for both events. I have trained with Jarred Rome and Adam Nelson, both of whom are Olympians. Jarred Rome was a discus competitor and specialist who organized and ran a throwing clinic, Iron Wood, that I attended numerous times. Unfortunately, jarred passed away last September. Adam Nelson, is an Olympic champion in shot put. He was my personal trainer for the past 4 years.

I enjoy lifting weights and training for my track events throughout the year with my grandfather, who is also my track coach. I enjoy outdoors activities like camping and hiking. I’m pretty social and hang out with my family, girlfriend, and friends most days. I also have an extreme passion for the Green Bay Packers! Go Pack Go!

My Wikipedia Interests
I use Wikipedia often! It is doubtful that I will be an active content contributor, but if I did I would probably work on topics like shot put, discus, political information and possibly topics about firefighting.

Article Evaluation
I have participated in track and field events for six years. I have thrown the shot put and discus in both high school and college. I trained under Olympian Jarred Rome since I first started throwing. I visited the Jarred Rome article on Wikipedia, and found three aspects of it worth commenting on: its lack of completeness, citations and citations that are no longer working.

Completeness
Overall, Jarred Rome’s Wikipedia page is very sparse! I think many interesting details have been left off. To start with, Jarred Rome coached at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon for five years, 2013-2018. There is no mention of him working at Concordia on his Wikipedia page. It only mentions his last job coaching at Boston University, in which he had only worked there for one year prior to his death. The article also does not mention the numerous years he was the Director for Iron Wood Camp. He was the Iron Wood Thrower Development Camp Director for many years. The article also leaves off the impact he had as a coach. You can see in the article on the Concordia University website, that he was not only a truly great coach and able to teach the technical part of throwing, but he was so personable and encouraging! Jarred's Wikipedia page also doesn’t mention any of his shot-putting records or that he even threw the shot put. Granted, he was better and more known for his discus abilities but there is not even a mention that he also threw the shot put.

Lack of Citation
Under the heading of Achievements; the “2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships” does not have a link to verify the results. Here is the link (citation) to the USATF website “2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.” However, it is clunky and hard to disseminate so this WikiLink might be a better option: “2011 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.”

Dead Link
Citation #1 link is dead. It leads to a 404 page that no longer exists. A better link for Boston University Track & Field can be found here.

Summary
In conclusion, I find Jarred Rome’s Wikipedia page very skimpy. I think his personal life could be expounded on immensely as there are not many details about his early years. There really is no mention of the kind of person he was when it came to his passion for coaching and dedicating his life to helping others, especially in the arena of Track and Field. I think it is also evident that his page is not being kept up to date as there was a dead link and missing citations.