Women's Gymnastics Wins U-M Leaders and Best Award
10/3/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Gymnastics
| | Larry Johnson and his wife Diane (left) join U-M director of athletics Bill Martin and members of the Wolverine women's gymnastics team in the presentation of the Leaders and Best Award for 2000-01. |
In the gym, the squad won the Big Ten and NCAA Northeast Region championships last year. At the NCAA Championships, the Wolverines finished third. Individually, four athletes earned a total of seven All-America honors last year, while then-freshman Elise Ray (Columbia, Md./Wilde Lake HS) was co-national champion in the all-around competition. Under Plocki's guidance, 80 All-America first or second team honors have been earned by Michigan gymnasts.
The Leaders and Best Award was created by Johnson, who earned two varsity letters as a member of the U-M football team in the mid-1970s. In 1974, he was awarded the Arthur D. Robinson Award as the outstanding student on the football team. The next year, he earned the Fielding H. Yost Honor Award for Football. Johnson graduated in 1975 with a BSE in environmental engineering.
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