Career
A native of Hillsdale, Michigan, Neer came to the University of Michigan on a basketball scholarship and became a three-sport star. She earned a total of eight varsity letters at U-Master in basketball, track and field, and softball. In three seasons on Michigan"s varsity basketball team, Neer scored 456 points and recorded 64 blocks.
She was ranked second in the United States in the discus throw in 1985 and again in 1991 and was ranked in the top ten for eleven straight years from 1982 to 1992.
Neer also holds the Michigan discus record and was named to the Big Ten All-Decade team Neer did not make the 1984 or 1988 Olympic teams, but continued to compete in the discus and made the 1992 Olympic team at age 33.
She was the first U-M woman to qualify for the Olympics in a field event. Though she did not place at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with a disappointing throw of 181.89 feet (5544 meters), she was only the fourth American woman to throw the discus more than 200 feet.
She broke the 200-foot mark at the 1985 Pacific Coast Championships with a throw of 201 feet, four inches (6137 meters).
Neer later became an Material Requirements Planning Analyst/Scheduler for Venture Industries. She was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 2002.
