Mary Wright is a coaching legend. Owner of Olympus School of Gymnastics in Utah. Choreographer with the Utah Utes.
Mary has sent 70 of her gymnasts on to the NCAA. She’s personally coached 10 Olympians, 19 National Team members and 17 World Championship competitors.
I coached with Mary once for 2wks … and can confirm she scorches the Earth. One of the best coaches I know.
But have you heard of her Mom, Rita Joan Marlow?
Rita has just been awarded the QUEEN’S SERVICE MEDAL (QSM). Congratulations.
She was the first woman head gymnastics coach and first delegate to the New Zealand Gymnastics Association.
A competitive gymnast herself, Mrs Marlow (86), was a member of the famous gymnastics exhibition squad, the Silver Six, in the 1940s.
In 1964 she founded the Dunedin Gymnastics Club and was a driving force behind the establishment of the Otago Gymnastics Association.
She is a life member of both organisations.
She was the first to introduce coaching and judging clinics to the region and she founded the first Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics Club in New Zealand.
Mrs Marlow managed New Zealand gymnastics teams at international competitions, including coaching the only New Zealand female gymnast at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. ..
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