The top photo. Not the bottom photo. 😀
Head Coach Greg Marsden used the top photo for a billboard promoting University of Utah Gymnastics in 1993.
Dvora Meyers:
More than two decades ago, a billboard went up in Salt Lake City near the 600 South exit of the I-15. It featured a young woman in repose clad in a sleeveless black leotard, her back to the viewer and her head tilted up. …
The woman on the billboard wasn’t a model but a gymnast on that 1992-93 team, 19-year-old sophomore Aimee Trepanier, whose pose from her floor routine was advertised as a way to sell competition tickets for the then-defending NCAA champions.
But to others in Salt Lake City, the ad was selling something else — sex. …
It’s a fascinating story.
In fact, the University’s athletic director Chris Hill had already decided to remove the billboard ahead of schedule. Utah is a very conservative State.
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The Gymnast’s Position
Aimee Trepanier was proud to showcase the pose that started her 1993 gymnastics floor routine in a billboard ad off I-15 in Salt Lake City. But when Utahns looked up, that’s not what they saw.
No to be too prudish, but that’s a whole lotta butt hanging out for a conservative, mormon dominated state. just sayin’
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