HUMPHREY, Terin Marie Individually Inducted: 2015 Inducted: 2008 Member-Gold Medal World Championships Team (2003) In the Beginning: Terin Marie Humphrey was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. After the family moved to Bates City, Missouri, she graduated from Odessa, Missouri High School. She formerly trained with Dragon Gymnastics at Great American Gymnastic Express in Missouri …
HANVEY, Tom Inducted: 1981 Born: February 2, 1919 Tom Hanvey began his gymnastics training at the Nashville, Tennessee YMCA under the coaching of L.K. “Doc” Gordon. As a result of this training show business occupied the early years of his life playing circus dates, fairs and theaters. He later served as Athletic Director of the …
DIMAS, Trent Inducted: 2002 Born: November 10, 1970 Albuquerque, New Mexico The day after winning the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal on the HB in Barcelona, Trent Dimas found himself sprinting down a street in Barcelona, late for a Today Show interview. Around his neck hung the symbol of being the best HB performer in …
DAGGETT, Tim U.S. Olympic Team Member Induction: 1984 Individual Induction: 1998 Inducted: U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame – 2005 Born: May 22, 1962, West Springfield, MA It seems a truism that any person who follows one or more sports would easily be able to relate a single athletic moment in time in the sport …
WOMEN’S 2007 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM GOLD MEDAL 2007 TEAM CHAMPIONS-TUMBLING Kaitlin Tortorich, Susannah Johnson, Leanne Seitzinger, Yuliya Hall Inducted: 2013 Yuliya Hall-Brown YULIYA HALL-BROWN: This is one of those situations where truth is stranger than fiction! Yuliya Hall began gymnastics at the age of 6 in the Soviet Union. She quickly became a member of …
SOFFE-SYLVESTER, Sue Inducted: 2001 Born: Umtali, Rhodesia Go heels overhead and the next thing you know is that you become a promising national and or international artistic gymnastic champion. Start with artistic gymnastics, but turn a heel just a little wrong and rise to become a rhythmic gymnastics champion. That describes Sue Soffee in a …
RANSOM, Stuart Inducted: 2008 When he competed in the sport of trampoline, it was not part of the Olympics. It didn’t become an Olympic event until it made its debut for both men and women during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. But Stuart Ransom has no regrets. “I love the sport of trampolining,” he said. …
MILLER, Shannon Inducted: 1998 – Member of 1996 Olympic Gold Medal Team Individually Inducted: 2003 Inducted: U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame – Individual (2006), Team (2008) Inducted: International Gymnastics Hall of Fame–(2006) Inducted: Women’s International Sports Hall of Fame (2008) Miller is the most decorated American gymnast of all time and the only American during …
McCAIN, Stephen Inducted: 2009 Always the kid performing on the jungle gym during recess in elementary school, Stephen McCain had a fearless curiosity for what he could do with his body. He immediately fell in love with gymnastics after his mom enrolled him in a local gym after witnessing the U.S Olympic Team’s success …
MAR, Sabrina Inducted: 2004 Sabrina Mar was an unheralded competitive gymnast from about 1976 through her retirement from the sport in 1988. However, during her relatively short career, she proved herself world class. On the sports pages of news media, we so often read about scandals and other forms of athletic negativism in the …