Here's an awesome write-up about a former coworker of mine. She's a star athlete. I love it.
(This isn't actually a picture of her, just another person named Sherri Peckham. The record holder is better looking than this realtor. When I googled the name, this showed up, so this is what you get.)
Stroud's world champ remembers glory days of rolling pin throwing
Sherri Salyer Peckham is a high school English teacher now, but when she was younger she was known for her ability to throw a rolling pin half the length of a football field. She has the world record in the unique sport.
STROUD — Sherri Salyer Peckham doesn't go around bragging about it, but she's a world record holder.
She threw a rolling pin farther than anybody in the world: 156 feet, 4 inches, to be precise. Peckham grew up in Stroud, though now she lives in Norman and teaches high school English in Tecumseh. Saturday she returned to her hometown for the 50th annual International Brick and Rolling Pin Throw and Festival.
In rolling-pin-throwing circles, Peckham's kind of a big deal.
Even though she's an expert pin hurler, Peckham doesn't see her accomplishment as that big of a deal.
"It was 1969,” she said of her first competition. "I was 14, and the rolling pin and brick throwing was just something that we grew up with.”
Peckham could throw the pin from here to eternity, so she made the team the first year she tried.
Peckham was always very athletic, so throwing rolling pins wasn't much of a stretch. Peckham perfected her toss on her family's land outside of Stroud.
"I practiced all the time,” she said, "That was just me. … Two to three weeks before the rolling pin tryouts, I would get out there and just throw and throw and throw.”
Her longest distance that first year was 138 feet, 11 inches. But Peckham bested herself in 1977. She threw the pin 156 feet, 4 inches — farther than anybody has thrown in competition.
Her record doesn't come up often. Other faculty members at her school know, and they sometimes tell students.
"My students … think it's dorky,” she said. "They're like, 'You threw a what?'”
A rolling pin.
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