LASALLE, Ont. - Trevor Snyder made no secret that his mission yesterday, as one of the top teenage javelin throwers in Canada, was to stir up some excitement.

Yesterday, Snyder was true to his word at the Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic Association track and field championship being held in Windsor.

On his 18th birthday, Snyder broke his own Canadian interscholastic record, set a new provincial standard, surpassed the oldest high school mark in history and came within a whisker of Phil Olsen's national record of 71.46 metres, set in 1974.

Snyder, challenged by a cross wind, tossed the javelin 71.22 metres which easily beat the 65.84 throw he recorded a year ago.

It also erased the OFSAA meet record of 65.40 by North Bay's Dan Ralph.

And it eclipsed a mark of 70.12, set by former CFLer Zenon Andrusyshyn in 1966 - a mark set with a javelin weighted to increase distance.

``I tried blocking everything out of my mind and hit all the positions right on,'' said an ecstatic Snyder, whose throw should qualify him for the world junior finals later this year in Chile.

``After the first throw (68.60 metres), I was confident this was going to be my day.

``It's like I had a personal competition with myself to do better.''

Snyder wasn't the only one leaving the meet with a record as Toronto's Colleen Ramharak, with a triple jump of 12.25 metres, improved on a 1989 record of 12.23 held by Mississauga's Emily Rudan.

``I was really nervous on that jump but I also knew the record was something I've been wanting for years,'' said Ramharak, from Oakwood Collegiate, who saved her best jump for her final one of the competition.

Walkerton's Adam Kunkel knocked down seven of 10 hurdles, but still covered the 110-metre senior event in 13.78 seconds, erasing the 13.95 run set three years ago by Jeff Keays from Smiths Falls.

Grand River's Kenen Shadd also had an up and down day.

No sooner did he win the junior boys' triple jump clearing 14.90 metres - a mere eight centimetres better than the previous mark set 15 years ago by former Olympian Glenroy Gilbert - the Kitchener athlete injured his knee trying for the Canadian interscholastic mark of 15.76 on his final jump.