1987 Oak Lawn High School graduate and state shot put champion Scott Cappos competed for Canada and was an alternate for its 1992 Summer Olympics team. He currently is the men's and women's throws coach at the University of Iowa.
As Scott Cappos was becoming a three-time All-America selection for Indiana University in shot put, the next opportunity came from his birth certificate. A coach noticed dual citizenship during paperwork. Cappos’ father emigrated from Canada, where Cappos was born before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. The 1987 Class AA state champion for Oak Lawn Community High School, Cappos could represent Canada internationally. “The U.S. has the best shot putters in the world,” Cappos said. “I kind of looked at it as an opportunity to travel all over the world to do what I loved. Having Canada or U.S.A. on my chest, it didn’t really matter.” Cappos was a Canadian national champion from 1992-95 and alternate for the 1992 Olympics. By 1995, Cappos …
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Relving the Glory Days: As a senior at Oak Lawn High School, Scott Cappos captured the 1987 Class AA state title in the shot put even under longtime coach George Dunn. Cappos became the Spartans' fourth state champion for that track event.
Involved in four sports growing up, Scott Cappos was beginning to believe that his best was throwing the shot put. When he entered Oak Lawn High School, he discovered there still was a long way to go. “The fall of my freshman year, I got third in shot in my P.E. class. And that was just one out of 10 P.E. classes,” Cappos said. “It didn’t start out as well as it turned out to be.” By the time Cappos graduated, he was the 1987 Class AA state champion under legendary coach George Dunn. Cappos also earned a partial athletic scholarship to Indiana University and competed for Canada, his birth nation, internationally. In May, Cappos marked his 20th season of coaching track by helping the University of Iowa men’s outdoor team win its first Big …
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Jerry
5:30 am on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thanks for posting this article. I was a team mate of Scott's and a year older than him. I remember our first practices his freshman year and recall a kind of awkward, uncertain kid with obvious raw talent. Scott worked hard for everything he achieved, as we all did...Coach Dunn made certain of that. Coach was ahead of his time in his training methods and we did some "crazy stuff" back then. I … more ›