Bob Detweiler attended the Naval Academy and was in the fifth seat on their eight-oared crew which won the 1952 Olympic gold medal. Detweiler graduated from the Academy in 1953 but while there rowed on the boats that won the 1952 and 1953 IRA Regatta and the Eastern Sprints. He was a longtime career Naval officer, specializing as a scientist in solid state physics. After retirement, he worked as director of research for energy and communications at Eyring Research Institute in Provo, Utah, and taught math, history, and English at the Alpine Life and Learning Center in Orem, Utah. A lifelong devotee of music and the arts, he was chairman of the Utah County Arts Council, was a founding member of the Utah Piano Quartet, and performed in numerous plays and musicals and sang with the Salt Lake Opera Company.  source http://www.sports-reference.com

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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 Americans around 42-14). the Canadian team fell 2-1 to the USA in their second last game of the tourney Fred was the leading scorer for that Olympic Games with 12 goals and 9 assists for 21 points, in just seven games...A record that STILL stands.  He served as bishop in 1960 in Oshawa,Ontario

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 at the University of Kansas (KU)  back in the late 50's. Track and Field, triple-jump (2nd) and long jump (3rd). The only guys that beat him in the long jump turned out to be future Gold medalists in the Olympics. 

He was ranked the number one  triple jumper in the US in 1960. He was the high point scorer for KU in the national champions.   He is in the Kansas track and field hall of fame or KU hall of fame.

Kent was an exceptional athlete also-all-state in football and basketball. Back in high school when he first started the triple jump-he got 3rd in the nation that year.

He was a bit of a pioneer in the triple jump, as there really weren't many US coaches that knew how to coach the triple- jump well. so he started borrowing techniques from the Russians, etc. He finished 2nd to Bill Toomey (gold medalist Decathlete) in an unofficial Pentathlon, in which both of them went over the American record, but alas-unofficial.

 He would've made an excellent decathlete though with training, as he beat Toomey in the javelin throw( could throw around 220+), long jumped over 25 feet and had good speed-around 22 second 200 meters, He could high jump around 6'4. That was with the difficult straddle style or scissors and not the easier Fosbury flop.  Kent's Wife  joined the church first then Kent joined on down the road, later on-after his Olympic days.

He is  a current member of the church, here in  TX.

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 single skater was 7th, in 1972. As a pair skater, he partnered with JoJo Starbuck, with whom he is a three-time National Champion. Starbuck and Shelley competed in two Olympic Games, placing 13th in 1968 and 4th in 1972, and won two bronze medals at the World Figure Skating Championships. When they made the 1968 Olympic team, they were the youngest athletes the United States had ever sent to the Olympics. Shelley was from Downey, California. After retiring from competitive skating, Starbuck and Shelley skated in the Ice Capades and competed professionally. Shelley was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1994  Source Wikipedia

Kenneth’s  great great grandfather was Jesse Nathaniel Smith.  A first cousin to Joseph Smith. 

His Olympic gold medal and two additional World championships place him among a mere handful of America’s elite wrestlers.  4-time National Freestyle, 3-time NCAA, 2-time World, 1984 Olympic, and UFC IX Champion.

So Far, So Good by Ed Eyestone

He served a full time mission in the California Arcadia Mission. Karl is married to Holly Benson Walker   He was called to be the Mission President of the Canada Vancouver Mission July 2011

“Keeping Faith Afloat,” Ensign, Dec. 1996, 54

 “We smile and seem to enjoy ourselves,” says Olympic synchronized swimmer Emily Porter LeSueur, “but that’s a facade. It’s actually quite difficult.”  “When I was about 15,” she says, “I decided I wanted to go to the Olympics. I wrote ’1996 gold medalist’ on a three-by-five card and signed my name. The card is still in my journal.”  Emily fulfilled her goal when the United States’ synchronized swimming team won the gold medal at the Atlanta Games. “As in figure skating, synchronized swimming teams do a technical routine and a free routine, both set to music. I participated in our technical routine, which was choreographed to the melody of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In.’ The crowd was very responsive.” Although the sport traces its origins to water ballet, synchronized swimming has evolved considerably over the years. The 10 U.S. team members trained together for at least eight hours a day over a period of nine months.

“What makes synchronized swimming so difficult,” Emily explains, “is that we can’t touch the bottom of the pool. We have to provide our own stability in the water. When we’re right side up we use leg strength, and when we’re upside down we use arm strength. Plus we’re holding our breath a lot of the time!” Emily recognizes much spiritual growth from her involvement in synchronized swimming. “I pray for help to make it through the difficult routines, and I have had the opportunity to share the gospel with my teammates and coaches,” she says. “Because national and international competitions have sometimes taken me away from family and Church attendance, I’ve learned to maintain spirituality through reading the scriptures and praying.” Emily recently moved with her husband, Ben, to the Sunrise Ward, Tucson Arizona Stake, so he could begin medical school at the University of Arizona. She graduated in December 1996 from Arizona State University with a degree in elementary education, and she

Emily Porter LeSueur

Synchronized swimmer from Mesa, AZ

LDS Athlete List by Kelly Martinez, Meridian Magazine, 05 Dec 2003

Finished 25th in 2004.
Source: LDS athletes mine Oly 'medals', LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug 2004, Page Z04.

LDS Athlete List by Kelly Martinez, Meridian Magazine, 05 Dec 2003

In 2004, he was also eliminated in the semifinals.
Source: LDS athletes mine Oly 'medals', LDS Church News Archives, 28 Aug 2004.

LDS Athlete List by Kelly Martinez, Meridian Magazine, 05 Dec 2003