Luther College

• Earned four letters in gymnastics and two in track and field
• Competed in tumbling, pommel horse, parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings and trampoline
• Served as team captain
• Competed in high jump and pole vault in track
• Bill Janson, gymnastics coach for 35 years, called him “the finest individual gymnast Luther has ever had”
• Earned master’s degree and Ph.D. in botany
• Professor and chair of biology department at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point