Smithsonian exhibit honors BR coach
by jordan blum
Advocate Washington bureau
May 25, 2012
Im proud to be a part of that great
group (of American Indian Olympians),
especially Jim Thorpe. Gayle Hatch, former U.S. Olympic weightlifting coach
WASHINGTON
Former U.S. Olympic weightlifting coach Gayle Hatch
is among the former athletes and coaches receiving recognition Thursday
and Friday at the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian
on the National Mall.
The
participating in Fridays opening of the museums new exhibit,
Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics.
Gayle Hatch(Delaware) & Billy Mills(Lakota Sioux) at the opening of the exhibit of
Native
American Olympians in the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Washington D. C.