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David Woods
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From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic competitors. Beginning in 1904, at the third summer games in St. Louis, Missouri, IU's first Olympic medal went to pole vaulter LeRoy Samse who earned a silver medal. In 2016, swimmer Lilly King rocketed onto the world stage with two gold medals in the 31st Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Olympic Biographies

  • Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World


  • The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold


  • Indiana University Olympians: From Leroy Samse to Lilly King


  • If Gold is Our Destiny: How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory


  • Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian


  • Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe


  • Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything


  • 1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too


  • Fire On the Track: Betty Robinson and the Triumph of the Early Olympic Women