(MontanaSports.com) – More than three decades after setting what many consider Montana’s most untouchable high school track and field record, Dennis Black is celebrating a very different kind of achievement: Survival.
At the State AA track and field meet in 1991, Black launched the shot put 68 feet, ½ inch while competing for Great Falls High School, a mark that remains the all-class Montana High School Association record. That same season, he also set the Memorial Stadium record with a toss of 70-7.
No one has come within four feet of that mark in the three-plus decades since. “It’s very humbling and very much an honor to know that 35 years ago, I did something that’s never been touched,” Black said. CONTINUE