Rudy Bachna founded the gymnastics program at Kent State University in 1959 and served as head coach until his retirement in 1991. Over the course of these 32 years, his teams compiled a record of 262-103-1. His program at Kent State became a model for college gymnastics across the United States. In the 1960s, Bachna coached two women to gold medals at the Pan American games. He is shown in the 1963 photograph above returning from the Pan American Games with one of those two gymnasts, Marie Walther.
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