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("The 14th class to be inducted Friday, Oct. 23 on the OSU Campus includes gymnast Heidi Anderson, football standout Ken Simonton, former baseball coach Jack Riley, former basketball student-athlete and coach Jimmy Anderson, longtime coach, athletic administrator and faculty member Pat Ingram, and the 2005 College World Series baseball team.)"
From the OSU release ...
" ... Heidi Anderson is one of the all-time great gymnasts in NCAA history and has the rare distinction of being both an Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and NCAA All-American. She won the national title on floor in 1982 at Penn State University in the first NCAA women’s gymnastics championships and earned a total of five All-American honors while competing for the Nittany Lions. The native Pennsylvanian transferred to OSU, competing in 1984 and ’85, capturing the ’84 national championship on beam and would conclude her career with seven All-America honors. Anderson graduated in 1985 from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and earned Academic All-American honors as a junior.
“Heidi’s gymnastics ability, enthusiasm, and flaming red hair made her an instant fan favorite and one of OSU's top all-around gymnasts of the '80’s,” said former OSU Deputy Athletic Director and gymnastics head coach Sylvia Moore. “She had a move on the balance beam that inevitability brought gasps from the crowd -- a back salto that she landed not on her feet, but in a sitting straddle position on the beam.” ..."
The only video I found to post at that time was this from 1979 Moscow News event ... where Heidi was the only American to make the finals ... her Floor routine starts at 10':54" ends at 13':20" ...
(I'd like to bring back the Grand Piano accompaniment ... although only the Russian Team had live piano ... the rest on tape.)
Here is her National Championship Winning Routine (uploaded in 2016) from 1984 for OSU (at UCLA) ...
Here is part of her introduction at the HOF ceremony ... (speaking is former coach Bryan Lea) ...
Go Beavs!!,
Richard
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