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.

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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David Woods caught the Olympic spirit early. He has been covering Olympians since 1972, when a naïve college kid covered training camp of the U.S. women's track and field team in Champaign, Ill., for The News-Gazette. Woods' first Olympics were at Los Angeles in 1984. He has covered Olympic sports for The Indianapolis Star since 1994, reporting from every Summer Games since 1996. He is the first four-time winner of the Jesse Abramson Award for journalism excellence from Track and Field Writers of America, and has won more than 25 national and state awards. This is his fourth book. The three others were about Butler University basketball. Woods, a native of Urbana, Ill., lives in Indianapolis with wife Jan. They have two married daughters, Karen and Kathy.