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Indiana University.
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Roger Counsil
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Career
Named Olympic coach for the United States.-boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics, Counsil also held several other prestigious positions. He was a standout athlete at Southern Illinois University, where he excelled in track, swimming and gymnastics. In addition to his Bachelor"s Degree, he also earned his Master"s from Southern Illinois University and completed his doctorate in Higher Education Administration at Indiana University.
Among the outstanding individuals Counsil coached were former Sycamore great Kurt Thomas and Dave Seal, another International Skating Union Hall of Fame member.
In 1985, he was inducted into both the Indiana State University and Southern Illinois University Athletics Hall of Fame.On 8 August 2014, he was selected as Institutional Great by the Missouri Valley Conference and will be inducted into the Conference Hall of Fame.
Achievements
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In his 17 years of coaching at Indiana State University, Counsil"s teams produced 46 All-Americans and his team won the 1977 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I championship. These included chairman of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Gymnastics Committee, men"s coach for the United States team in the 1978 World Games, host coach for the 1975 National Collegiate Athletic Association National Championships in Terre Haute, National "Coach of the Year" and four-time recipient of Mideast "Coach of the Year" honors, and Executive Director of the United States of America Gymnastics, a position he assumed after leaving International Skating Union in February, 1980. He was the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 1-meter diving champion in 1957, the same year he was named "Most Valuable Athlete" at Southern Illinois University.
