Basketball 1976 Mortreal Phil Tollestrup is a former Olympic basketball player as a member of the Canadian national men’s basketball team during the 1970s.Six feet, six inches tall forward. The native of Raymond, Alberta was later a member of his local...
steeplechase (USA) 1976 Montreal 1980 Moscow 1984 Los Angeles 1988 Seoul One of the greatest U.S. steeplechasers of all-time, Henry Marsh still holds the American record in the event (8:09.17 in 1985). A 1978 graduate of Brigham Young University, Marsh burst onto the...
1968 Winter Games Pairs Figure Skating 1972 Winter Games Figure Skating As a single skater Kenneth won the 1972 United States Figure Skating Championships and placed 4th at the 1972 Winter Olympics. His highest placement at the World Figure Skating Championships was a...
discus (USA) 1964 Tokyo 1968 Mexico City 1972 Munich 1976 Montreal “I broke my first world record in 1961,” he recalls. “Sixty meters was the barrier at that time. I went about a meter beyond the previous record. I was the first to break both the 60-...
In 1964 Tokyo games Walter Edward Red, competed in the javelin. He finished 9th but going into the games he had one of the longest iin the world that year. He also held the SWAC conference record from 1963 to 1983. He is also induced in the Rice University Athletic...
Men’s Track and Field, 1964, Olympian- Triple Jump. Inducted into the Kansas University Hall of Fame Kent was a 1964 Tokyo, Japan Olympian. He went to 3 Olympic trials and made it on his last one. Kent is of German descent, he was a rare Double All-American...
Fred Etcher played hockey for the Whitby Dunlops team that represented Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley. His team won the silver medal that year after falling to the American team 2-1 in the gold medal game (even though Canada outshot the...
Barbara Lockhart speed skater (USA) 1960 Squaw Valley, CA 1964 Innsbruck, Austria She is a professor at BYU. Barbara also serves on the General Relief Society Board. Barbara is passionate about serving her community and believes the pursuit of “no poor among...
Jack Yerman track and field (USA) gold 1960 Rome Yerman won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympic Games 4x400 meter relay in Rome. The U.S. team of Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, and Otis Davis set a world record of 3:02.2. A total of six world records. He also...
Robert Detweiler rower 1952 Helsink Robert Detweiler was born 20 July 1930 in Centralia, Illinois he died 8 December 2003 in Orem, Utah. competition rower and Olympic champion, naval officer, and scientist of solid state physics. He won a gold medal in the 1952 Summer...
Alma Richards (1890-1963) track and field (USA) gold 1912 Stockholm But before his final jump, he walked to a spot on the infield grass, and in full view of the stadium crowd of 24,000, he took off his hat, kneeled on the ground, and said this prayer: “God, give...
Doug Wright Radio Don’t miss his Movie show program on Fridays ! He entered the Utah radio market in 1968, at age 16, when he began at KUER. He then spent almost a year at KDYL in Tooele before moving to KRSP, then to KCPX-AM and Ch. 4. He arrived at KSL in...
Grant Wilson Co-founder of TAPS, and star on the TV show, Ghost Hunters Grant Steven Wilson is the co-founder (with Jason Hawes) of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), based in Warwick, Rhode Island, and co-star and co-producer of the Sci-Fi Channel’s Ghost...
Levi Stewart Udall Levi Stewart Udall January 20, 1891 – May 30, 1960 was a Lawyer who served as Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court . In 1946 he was elected to the Arizona Supreme Court, and remained a Justice of that court from 1947 until his death....
Rex Lee (1935-1996) US Solicitor General During Reagan’s first term, he argued 30 cases before the Supreme court as solicitor general. He also argued 59 cases as a private attorney. He accepted the presidency of BYU on one condition: that he could still argue in...
Kent A. Jordan U.S. District Court for Delaware Jordan was nominated to a vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by President George W. Bush on July 25, 2002 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on ,November 14, 2002 by. Bush nominated...
Robert Clive Jones Robert Clive Jones is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. From 2011-2014 he served as the Chief United States District Judge. Jones is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
David G. Campbell U.S. District Court for Arizona Campbell filled a mission in the England Birmingham Mission. He is a former Bishop and is serving in his Stake...
Jay S. Bybee US Court of Appeals ninth circuit He earned his J.D., cum laude, from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. President Bush nominated him for the court of appeals in 2003. The senate approved his nomination with a 74-19 vote. ...
Lawrence J. Block U.S. Court of Federal Claims In 1987, Judge Block was awarded the Attorney General’s Special Achievement Award for an article entitled “A New Look At Plurality Decisions”, which was published in March of 1988. From 1994-2002, Judge...
Scot Pollard Detroit Pistons Atlanta Hawks Sacramento Kings Indiana Pacers Son of Pearl Pollard, the legendary player at the University of Utah is known as “Poison” for his deadly hook shot. He was a first-round pick by Detroit in 1997, traded to Atlanta a...
