Jarred Rome

Jarred Rome competed as a discus thrower at the 2004 and 2012 Olympic Games. Rome won a silver medal in discus at the 2011 Pan American Games. He was also eighth that year at the World University Games. Rome attended Boise State University and placed second for them at the 1997 NCAA Championship.

Rome later was an assistant coach for throws at Boston University and was the director of the Ironwood Thrower Development Camp in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He married US international hockey player Pamela Spuehler in 2017. Rome was inducted into the Snohomish County Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. He was in Everett, Washington for that induction but unfortunately was found dead in his hotel room only a few days later, after spending the evening at the Tulalip Resort Casino.

Personal Best: DT – 68.76 (2011).