Yoshi Hayasaki, owner and director of Hayasaki Gymnastics Center, formerly served as Head Men’s Gymnastics Coach at the University of Illinois from 1974 to 2009. …
He is a two time NCAA all around Champion and a former USA and AAU All Around Champion. …
Hayasaki was inducted into the United State Gymnastics “Hall of Fame” in the summer of 2014.
Yoshi’s daughter, Erika Hayasaki, just posted an entertaining and informative history of how her Dad came to America on a cargo ship in 1965. Sick and broke. He could not speak nor read English.
Time – Somersaulting Into America
Another example of an immigrant who made good in the new world. 🙂
Justin Spring and Ivan Ivankov replaced the legendary coach at Illinois in 2009.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 