Michigan Wolverines: Red Simmons
Simmons started at Michigan in 1959 as a physical education teacher following his retirement from the Detroit Police Department. At the beginning of his tenure, he began the Ann Arbor Women’s Track Club, called "The Michigammes."
It was a program that sent three women to the Olympics -- Francie Kraker Goodridge in 1968 and 1972 in track, Sperry Jones in 1968 as a kayaker and Micki King as a diver in 1972, when she won a gold medal.
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