Mac Wilkins (born November 15, 1950) has to be considered America's greatest throws competitor in track and field after qualifying for four Olympic games and breaking the world record in discus four times. 
Born in Eugene, but raised in Beaverton, Wilkins' throws talent emerged as a high school senior in 1969, the same year Steve Prefontaine graduated from Marshfield. Both would end up part of Bill Bowerman's Oregon Ducks program. Mac's first success came in the javelin, throwing a PR of 257-8 as a freshman. Eventually, the discus became his specialty. In his senior year (1973) he won both the NCAA and national AAU championships and began his training for the Olympics.
His hard work was rewarded, first in 1976, at the Montreal Games. Mac's gold medal throw of 221-5 was four feet further than any of his competition. During the run-up to the US trials, Mac broke the world record three times in one meet. Wilkins dominance of the event continued through the late 70's and he, again, qualified for the Moscow Olympics, but did not compete due to the US boycott. He would take the silver at the 1984 LA games and finished fifth in Seoul in 1988. Mac Wilkins competitive career included a total of six AAU national championships, two World Cup silver medals and a PanAm games gold medal.
Teaching and coaching were next on the big man's agenda. Wilkins guided the throwers at Concordia University in Portland from 2006-2013, building a throws training facility near Portland International Airport. Concordia throwers won 24 National Championships and won 94 All-America honors during that time. Since then he has led the USA Track & Field's training facility in Chula Vista, California and offers individual coaching to elite throwers. Olympic gold medalists Ryan Crouser and Stephanie Trafton both trained with Mac.
Mac Wilkins was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992