And The Home of The Braves: A Gymnastics Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781505978537)

Oh those gymnastics judges don't know what they are doing! I was robbed. Sound familiar? Well, that's what I thought too as an athlete in the mid-1970s. So I figured I'd fix the injustice by becoming a gymnastics judge who was fair, kind and knew what she was doing. Almost four decades later, I'm still working on being that gymnastics judge, but I've sure enjoyed the journey. I've judged high school state meets, USA Gymnastics state, regional and national meets, NCAA conference, regional and national meets and I WORKED ON THE FLOOR OF THE OLYMPICS in 1996. Yup, the Olympics. Who would guess that a mediocre gymnast from Burnsville, Minnesota could ever get that far? So besides judging gymnastics-which is a sideline avocation-I work as a senior manager for the federal government. I also like reading and doing short course triathlons from time to time.