GYM UPDATE Photo courtesy of International Gymnast International of courtesy Photo 1980 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team will be recognized at ’10 Visa Championships USA Gymnastics will celebrate the accomplishments of the USA’s 1980 Olympic Gymnastics Team on Saturday, Aug. 14, as part of the final day of the 2010 Visa Championships in Hartford, Conn. Thirty years ago, the 1980 USGF International Invitational, the alternate Olympic competition for gymnastics, was held at the Hartford Civic Center, now known as the XL Center, after President Jimmy Carter decided the United States would boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Soviet Union. The members of the women’s 1980 Olympic Team are: Luci Collins Cummings of Inglewood, Calif.; Marcia Frederick Blanchette of Assomet, Mass.; Kathy Johnson Clarke of Longwood, Fla.; Beth Kline Rybacki of Upland, Calif.; Amy Koopman Enxing of Village of Lakewood, Ill.; Julianne McNamara Zeile of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; and Tracee Talavera Kent of Tallahassee, Fla. Ernestine Weaver was the head coach, and Paul Ziert was the assistant coach. The men’s team is comprised of: Phil Cahoy of Omaha, Neb.; Bart Conner of Norman, Okla.; Ron Galimore of Indianapolis, Ind.; Larry Gerard of Fort Worth, Texas; Jim Hartung of Lincoln, Neb.; Peter Vidmar of Coto de Caza, Calif.; and Mike Wilson of Plano, Texas. Francis Allen was the head coach, with Bill Meade as the assistant. 20112011 SunSun && SurfSurf Spectacular January 28 - 30th Coral Springs, Florida For Event Details, Please Visit www.sunsurfmeet.com Do you recognize these USA National Team members all dressed up and headed to prom? Top left to right: Bridget Sloan, Ivana Hong, John Orozco, Jordan Valdez Bottom left to right: Sam Mikulak, Samantha Peszek, Mattie Larson, Kaitlyn Clark GYM UPDATE Kerri Strug ties the knot Spring ties the knot Photos by Daniel Snyder Daniel by Photos 1996 Olympic team gold-medalist Kerri Strug married attorney Robert Fischer on April 24 in her hometown of 2008 Olympic Team Bronze-Medalist Justin Tucson, Ariz. Both currently reside in Washington, D.C., Spring married Tori Tanney on May 29 in where Strug is a program manager at the Office of Juvenile Champaign, Ill. Spring is the associate head Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Fischer is an coach of the University of Illinois-Champaign attorney currently working for a Member of Congress. Men’s Gymnastics Team. The new Mrs. “Robert always wants to make me happy,” Strug happily Spring will also work at the University as a told PEOPLE magazine of her husband, whom she met Career Services Coordinator in the College of through mutual friends in Washington, D.C. “He’s a little Business. old-fashioned. He really courted me…To this day, he still Both Spring and Tanney graduated from gives me flowers on a regular basis.” the University of Illinois-Champaign with Strug graduated from Stanford University and Fischer degrees in Speech Communications, and from the University of California, Berkeley and the Sandra Tanney recently finished her Masters degree in Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. higher education administration. Spring ties the knot USA Gymnastics national advertising insert will appear in Parents magazine This fall, USA Gymnastics is publishing a national advertising insert in the September 2010 issue of Parents magazine, expanding the message deliv- ered in the 2008 advertising insert – gymnastics is a part of our human nature, and gymnastics clubs are the very best place for young people to learn Life Needs Confidence. about fitness and a healthy lifestyle. The magazine Gymnastics is in our nature. A gymnastics club provides a safe, fun, and supportive should hit the newsstands in mid-August 2010 and environment where kids of all ages can develop the skills they need to achieve has a reach of approximately 15 million people! their potential. Want to help your child get the hang of a healthy, happy life? Join a club. Targeting parents, the insert promotes gym- Visit USA-Gymnastics.org to find a USA Gymnastics Member Club near you. nastics and reinforces the notion that some of the most common functional skills for young people are based in gymnastics. The 2010 insert features new taglines, “Life Needs Confidence” and “Life Needs Agility”. The insert will direct readers to the USA Gym- nastics website www.usa-gymnastics.org where they can locate a USA Gymnastics Member Club in their area. © 2010 USA Gymnastics. All Rights Reserved. CLUB OWNERS - If your club is not yet a USA Gymnastics Member Club, sign up now so that your club will be listed in the club search and you can take advantage of the national advertising insert. Call 800-345-4719. IGC SIGNS ON AS EVENT PARTNER BELLA TUCKER FUND FOR 2010 VISA CHAMPIONSHIPS USA Gymnastics re- Phantom Gymnastics’ student cently announced that Bella Tucker, 8, came down with a near fatal infection of International Gymnas- Streptococcus Pneumonia Sepsis tics Camp of Strouds- with DIC on Easter. Doctors gave burg, Pa., is an event little hope for this third grader’s sponsor of the 2010 survival, but after five days in a Visa Championships, coma, she miraculously survived. Aug. 10-14, in Hartford, Unfortunately, the infection Conn. IGC will be the exclusive summer gymnastics camp caused extensive tissue damage, identified as an event partner for the Visa Championships, and Bella underwent quadruple which are the national championships for USA Gymnastics. amputation surgery and is “IGC has been a valuable member of the gymnastics currently facing an extremely community for many years, and this increased involve- long and hard recovery with extensive rehabilitation to follow as she learns to live ment is an extension of the commitment that IGC and the life without her limbs. Klaus family have to growing the sport,” said Steve Penny, Phantom Gymnastics in Hampstead, N.H., has president of USA Gymnastics. “Event partners like IGC are created the Bella Tucker 10.0 Campaign. If you or your important for the overall success of the championships, club would like to help go to the BellaTucker.org or and we are glad to have them on board in Hartford.” FriendsOfBella.org. www.internationalgymnastics.com USA GYMNASTICS JULY • AUGUST 2010 45 San Jose, Calif., to host 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee have awarded the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics for men’s and women’s gymnastics to San Jose, Calif. The event will be conducted at HP Pavilion at San Jose, June 28-July 1. The USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show will be staged at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in conjunction with the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics. “San Jose has presented a fantastic plan for host- ing the 2012 Olympic Trials,” said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. “Over the years, the Bay Area and San Jose in particular have been out- standing hosts to USA Gymnastics. We are confi- Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics, in San Jose dent this will be one of the best Olympic Trials ever conducted for any sport. All of the partners connected to this effort are committed to producing a memorable event and one that showcases our country’s top athletes at the highest level.” THANK YOU FROM SUPER SHOTS CAL STATE FULLERTON Do you have a cool gymnastics shot you’d like to share? Check this one out… This is 17-year-old Sam Mikulak from SCATS Gymnastics at the Men’s JO National Champi- onships where he On behalf of Cal State Fuller- won the all-around ton’s gymnastics program and USA title for the 16-18 Gymnastics, we want to thank you year olds. for your donation, to support the women’s gymnastics program. With If you have a shot your help, CSF has raised $280,000, you’d like to share which will support the program for in our magazine the 2010-11 competitive season and and online send it enables them to continue to raise to: publications@ funds to secure an ongoing endow- usa-gymnastics. ment. The generosity of the gymnas- org and call it your tics community has been incredible, super shot. Make and we appreciate your joining in sure you tell us the effort to retain the CSF women’s who is in the photo gymnastics program. For more in- and give us a few formation go to facts like name, www.usa-gymnastics/college gym, age, etc. 46 USA GYMNASTICS JULY • AUGUST 2010.