[TN_Gal]

This is a fantastic sports website....with so much "sports enthustists" I was wondering if there are any posters here with connections to the Olympics, particpants or judges or on the Olympic Committee???

I am very proud to start this thread. My fathers' sister, my Aunt Jean won a Gold Medal in the Olympics....later in life she was a member of the Olympic Committee.

Jean Shiley
Inducted: 1993, athlete
Born: November 20, 1911 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Events
High Jump - 1.67 m

As a member of the Haverford Township (Pa.) High School basketball team, Jean Shiley's leaping ability drew the attention of a local reporter, who suggested that she try out for the 1928 Olympic team as a high jumper. Just 16, she made the team, finished 4th at the Amsterdam Games, then began dominating U.S. women's high jumping. Shiley won the national title three years in succession from 1929 to 1931 before tying Babe Didriksen for the title in 1932. The two women then staged one of the greatest one-on-one duels in Olympic history at the Los Angeles Games. They matched each other jump for jump and each cleared 5' 5" to set a world record. In the jump-off for first place, both cleared 5' 5 3/4" but Didriksen's "diving roll" style was ruled inadmissible and Shiley was awarded the gold medal. That world record was to stand for seven years and it remained the American record until 1948. Shiley also set the American indoor record of 5' 3 1/4", which remained unbroken for 38 years. A 1933 graduate of Temple University, Shiley was the captain of the 1932 Olympic women's track and field team.
Records Held
World Record: High Jump - 1.67 m (August 7, 1932 - )

Championships
1928 Olympics: High Jump (4th)
1932 Olympics: High Jump - 1.67 m (1st)
1929 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1930 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1931 AAU: High Jump (1st)
1932 AAU: High Jump (1st)

Education
high school: Haverford Township (Haverford, Pennsylvania), 1929
undergraduate: Temple (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1933

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Sports in the 1930's

Here is a site that shows sports back in the 1930's at a time when Babe Didriksen and Jean Shiley where going at each other.

[TN_Gal]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

Sports in the 1930's

Here is a site that shows sports back in the 1930's at a time when Babe Didriksen and Jean Shiley where going at each other.

OMG Goth Guy...did u see Joe Louis? aka Ali

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by TN_Gal

OMG Goth Guy...did u see Joe Louis? aka Ali

Yeah, cool decade...no tatoos on the players...long shorts...no face mask on the football player...the site comes with era music too...

[TN_Gal]

This is my Aunt Jean in the Olympics

[Team Yates]

Originally Posted by TN_Gal

This is my Aunt Jean in the Olympics

That's totally awesome TN Gal!!!!