Carol Jean L. Moseke Frost (born March 8, 1945, in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska) is a female

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athlete from the

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, competing in the

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. She represented her native country at the

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, and won the gold medal in the women's discus throw event at the

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, Manitoba, Canada. She was a four-time champion in the women's discus at the

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. Following the Olympics, Moseke returned to Nebraska and married Larry Frost, a former Nebraska football player, and from 1977 to 1980, Carol Frost coached the Huskers' women's track and field team. Among her first athletes was

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, who won the first

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Championship for the Nebraska program. Ottey went on to win the most women's Olympic track and field medals ever. Later, she got out of coaching track to coach football alongside her husband and eventually coached her sons Steve Frost and

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during their days as high school stars at Wood River High School. Steve, a former college lineman and long snapper at Colorado State and Stanford, is the public address announcer for Stanford Football home games, a job he's done for over 20 years. Scott quarterbacked the

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to a

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, before becoming offensive coordinator at the

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, and later becoming the head coach at the

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and the

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. As Carol Frost, she has continued to compete into the Masters age groups. She holds the current American record in the W65, W70, and W75 Shot Put; the W60, W65, W70, and W75 records in the Discus; and the W65, W70, and W75

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in the Javelin.

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* 1945 births Living people Nebraska Cornhuskers women's track and field athletes People from Boone County, Nebraska Track and field athletes from Nebraska American female discus throwers Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games 20th-century American sportswomen American masters athletes Nebraska Cornhuskers track and field coaches {{US-discusthrow-athletics-bio-stub