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From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic competitors. Beginning in 1904, at the 3rd summer games in St. Louis, IU's first Olympic medal went to pole vaulter LeRoy Samse who earned a silver medal. In 2016, swimmer Lilly King rocketed onto the world stage with two gold medals in the 31st Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Featuring profiles of 49 athletes who attended IU, Indiana University Olympians includes the stories of well-known figures like Milt Campbell, the first African American to win decathlon gold and who went on to play pro football, and Mark Spitz, winner of seven swimming gold medals. The book also highlights fascinating anecdotes and the accomplishments of their less well-known colleagues, including one athlete's humble beginnings in a chicken house and another who earned a Silver Star for heroism in the Vietnam War. Despite their different lives, they share one key similarity—these remarkable athletes all called Indiana University home.


Milt Campbell
1952, 1956
First Black Decathlon Gold Medalist

There is melancholy in reflecting on the achievements of Milt Campbell, as great as they were, and as he was. He does not require revisionist history. He does not require the record be set straight.

Let the record be known.

The fact that he lamented lack of recognition during much of his life does not mean he was wrong. He was right. He could be characterized as the greatest athlete ever to come out of Indiana University, even over Mark Spitz.

During the 2012 Olympic track and field trials, all of America's living gold medalists were brought together for the one hundredth anniversary of the decathlon: Campbell, Rafer Johnson, Bill Toomey, Bruce Jenner, Dan O'Brien. The only one who recognized Campbell, or acknowledged him, was Elliott Denman, longtime journalist, fellow New Jersey native, and Olympic teammate.

"He was completely overlooked," Denman said, "which to me is the story of his life."

Part of the story anyway. Other parts of the story seem more like myth.

The abbreviated version:

In 1956, Milt Campbell became the first black gold medalist in the Olympic decathlon. He set world records and won an NCAA titles in the hurdles for Indiana University. He played pro football and excelled in swimming, wrestling, judo, tennis, and bowling.

"Campbell was, to me, the greatest athlete who ever lived," Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan once said.

So there is no valid reason, beyond lack of knowledge and research, as to why forty-eight years after he won a silver in the Olympic decathlon while in high school and forty-four years after he won gold, that Campbell did not make ESPN's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th Century or its Top 50 Black Athletes survey.


Table of 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
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, 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 Maissoneuve, 1996
Steve Snow, 1992
John Stollmeyer, 1988
Angelo DiBernardo, 1984
Greg Thompson, 1984
6. Other sports
Michelle Venturella, 2000, softball
Mickey Morandini, 1988, baseball
Dick Voliva, 1936, wrestling
Indiana University Olympians
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Photo captions and credits

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Date de parution 04 août 2020
Nombre de lectures 1
EAN13 9780253050861
Langue English
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This book is a publication of
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA
iupress.indiana.edu
2020 by David Woods All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z 39.48-1992.
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ISBN 978-0-253-05007-6 (cloth)
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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 track and field s 4 400-meter relay: Ivan Fuqua, 1936; Roy Cochran, 1948; Sunder Nix, 1984; and David Neville, 2008.
The Hoosiers have earned a medal in every Olympics in which they competed, except 2004. In 1968, Indiana came away with seventeen medals, a total exceeded by only eight countries.
Indiana features 223 total Olympic berths, including athletes, coaches, and judges. Those are led by one hundred in men s swimming and diving, thirty-nine in men s track and field, and thirty in women s swimming and diving.
The twenty-four nations or territories besides the United States that a Hoosier has represented include Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine, and Venezuela.
This book is devoted to athletes, but Indiana has had multiple coaches on US staffs. Those include Bob Knight and Tara VanDerveer in basketball; Billy Hayes and Sam Bell in track and field; Doc Counsilman and Ray Looze in swimming; Hobie Billingsley, Jeff Huber, and Drew Johansen in diving; and Billy Thom and Jim Humphrey in wrestling.
The Hoosiers inevitably will send more athletes to Tokyo for the next Olympic Games, which were postponed from 2020 to 2021 by a pandemic. They will bring more medals back to Bloomington and build on a tradition that few universities can emulate.

Steve Alford, 1985.
IU Archives P0030877 .
Steve Alford
1984
America s Last Amateur Gold
STEVE ALFORD WAS COMING OFF A MOMENTOUS FRESHMAN BASKETBALL season. He averaged 15.5 points a game, scoring 27 in the Indiana Hoosiers 72-68 upset of top-ranked North Carolina and Michael Jordan in the NCAA tournament s Sweet 16.
Although the Hoosiers didn t make it to the 1984 Final Four, coach Bob Knight did. He appeared on TV at halftime of one of the games on CBS. Alford was watching at home in New Castle, Indiana, with friends.
Knight looked into the camera and said, I know Steve s watching back home. The thing I want him working on all summer is his defense and moving without the ball.
Alford shook his head. Here was Coach, two thousand miles away, chiding him about his defense. The next week, back in Bloomington, Alford was playing pickup. Those games were strictly for fun because no coaches were watching.
I ve got the whole summer to get better, Alford told Todd Meier, another freshman for the Hoosiers. And no Coach Knight on my butt!
Or so everyone thought.
Days later, Alford went to the mailbox at his dormitory, which usually had nothing other than letters from his mother. This time, there was an invitation to be among seventy-three players trying out for the US Olympic team, coached by Knight. That started the Hoosier on a summer in which he would see plenty of his coach . . . and Jordan.
Alford not only made the team, he was fourth in scoring (10.3 points a game) and second in assists for the 8-0 gold medalists. The Los Angeles Olympics were the last played before NBA pros were allowed. Alford is the fourth-youngest gold medalist in Olympic basketball history, at nineteen years, 260 days.
To be the last amateur team to win gold is pretty special, he said.
Alford had not expected an invitation to the trials. The only younger players were Delray Brooks, eighteen, the Indiana Mr. Basketball who had committed to IU, and high schooler Danny Manning, seventeen, of Greensboro, North Carolina. Of the twelve players chosen, eleven were selected in the first round of the 1984 or 1985 NBA draft. The twelfth was Alford.
Six invitees went into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and John Stockton. And Barkley, Malone, and Stockton did not make the Olympic team.
Back then, when it was strictly amateur, no pros, you really had to hit it right, Alford said. You almost had to hit the Olympics when you were a junior or senior in college. I was very fortunate I got invited.
He was a gym rat with a chance to play against some of the best players in the sport. That was going to be enough. Making the team was out of the question.
Trials began April 17. They were held at the IU Fieldhouse, across the street from Assembly Hall. Players were assigned to teams on each of eight courts with a simple instruction: play. Knight watched from a scaffold as a football coach would do.
Knight assembled a staff of nineteen college coaches to conduct three-a-day workouts and coach the games. There was a seven-player selection committee, although it was widely assumed Knight would have the final say.
In addition to the fact Alford played without burden of expectation, he found he had two other advantages: he knew Knight s motion offense and thus did not move tentatively, and he was in the best shape of his life. The workouts, drills, and scrimmages were as much a test of stamina as skill. He grew more confident after shooting seven of seven in his first scrimmage, and three of five in the second.
Alford was trying to study for final exams but found himself writing down names of players he would have to beat out to make the team. Also trying to guess those making the first cut were hundreds of pro scouts and journalists.
Alford recalled the sentimental favorite being Barkley, then a 280-pound forward out of Auburn nicknamed the Round Mound of Rebound. Barkley s thunderous dunks and demonstrative fist pumps delighted onlookers but did not impress Knight. Coincidentally, Barkley was Alford s roommate during the trials on the top floor of the Memorial Union.
In a 1989 autobiography (written with John Garrity), Alford speculated that pairing him with Barkley was one of Coach s little jokes, putting me wi

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