Two-time Olympian Mac Wilkins captured a gold medal in the discus at the 1976 Montreal Olympic games and a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He was the 1976 Hayward Award winner as Oregon’s top amateur athlete. Mac established a world discus record on four separate occasions. He won the national AAU discus championship an incredible six times. 1973 was and outstanding year for the former University of Oregon start as Wilkins won both the NCAA discus title and the PAC-8 title.