Indiana University Olympians. David Woods

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       CONTENTS

       Preface

       1 BASKETBALL

       Steve Alford, 1984

       Quinn Buckner and Scott May, 1976

       Walt Bellamy, 1960

       2 TRACK AND FIELD

       Derek Drouin, 2012, 2016

       David Neville, 2008

       DeDee Nathan, 2000

       Bob Kennedy, 1992, 1996

       Jim Spivey, 1984, 1992, 1996

       Dave Volz, 1992

       Sunder Nix, 1984

       Willie May, 1960

       Milt Campbell, 1952, 1956

       Greg Bell, 1956

       Fred Wilt, 1948, 1952

       Roy Cochran, 1948 93

       Charles Hornbostel, 1932, 1936

       Don Lash, 1936

       Ivan Fuqua, 1932

       LeRoy Samse, 1904

       3 SWIMMING

       Lilly King, 2016

       Cody Miller, 2016

       Blake Pieroni, 2016

       Gary Hall, 1968, 1972, 1976

       Jim Montgomery, 1976

       Mark Spitz, 1968, 1972

       Mike Stamm, 1972

       John Kinsella, 1968, 1972

       Charlie Hickcox, 1968

       Don McKenzie, 1968

       Chet Jastremski, 1964, 1968

       Kathy Ellis, 1964

       Fred Schmidt, 1964

       Frank McKinney Jr., 1956, 1960

       Mike Troy, 1960

       Bill Woolsey, 1952, 1956

       4 DIVING

       Michael Hixon, 2016

       Mark Lenzi, 1992, 1996

       Cynthia Potter, 1972, 1976

       Lesley Bush, 1964, 1968

       Ken Sitzberger, 1964

       5 SOCCER

       Brian Maisonneuve, 1996

       Steve Snow, 1992

       John Stollmeyer, 1988

       Angelo DiBernardo, 1984

       Gregg Thompson, 1984

       6 OTHER SPORTS

       Michelle Venturella, Softball, 2000

       Mickey Morandini , Baseball, 1988

       Dick Voliva , Wrestling, 1936

       Sources

       Indiana University Olympians

       PREFACE

      INDIANA UNIVERSITY HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN FOR BASKETBALL, AS it should be. Only UCLA (eleven), Kentucky (eight), and North Carolina (six) have won more NCAA championships than the Hoosiers’ five.

      But Indiana’s legacy at the Olympic Games is no less impressive. The Hoosiers have collected fifty-five gold medals for the United States since the modern Olympics debuted in 1896, a figure exceeded by just seven schools: Stanford, UCLA, the University of Southern California, Texas, Michigan, and Florida. Indiana’s ninetyfive total medals rank eleventh.

      This book has profiles of forty-nine IU Olympians. In the following pages, you will read that:

      · The greatest athlete in IU history was not actually recruited by IU.

      · A long jump gold medalist had such humble beginnings that he grew up in a chicken house.

      · The Hoosiers produced the first African American gold medalist in the decathlon.

      · A diver who had never before competed on the 10-meter platform won a gold medal a few months after she first tried it.

      · The soccer player who helped build the Hoosiers’ dynasty was discovered on Chicago playgrounds.

      · A swimmer later became head valet for a Saudi Arabian prince and then a master chef.

      · A swimmer was part of rescue missions for astronauts who walked on the moon.

      · A double gold medalist won a Silver Star for heroism in the Vietnam War.

      · Two distance runners became FBI agents.

      Those athletes, in order, are Mark Spitz, Greg Bell, Milt Campbell, Lesley Bush, Angelo DiBernardo, Mike Stamm, Fred Schmidt, Mike Troy, Don Lash, and Fred Wilt.

      The event in which the Hoosiers have the most gold medals (ten) is swimming’s 4×100-meter medley relay: Frank McKinney, 1960; Kathy Ellis and Fred Schmidt, 1964; Charlie Hickcox and Don McKenzie, 1968; Mark Spitz and Mark Stamm, 1972; Mark Kerry (Australia), 1980; Lilly King and Cody Miller, 2016. Through 2016, the US men had never lost the 4×100 medley relay at an Olympics.

      The Hoosiers also have four gold medalists in