BY JACK ROSSI
hawkeyesports.com
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- For the fourth time in the last five years, a former men’s gymnast will be inducted into the National Iowa Varsity Athletics Hall of Fame.
Neil Schmitt competed on the men’s gymnastics team from 1966-68 where he was a three-year letterwinner, two-time team captain and an All-American on high bar at the 1967 NCAA Championships. Schmitt also served as an assistant coach on the 1969 NCAA Championship team with former head coach Dick Holzaepfel.
Schmitt joins former coaches Sam Bailie and Holzaepfel and former teammates Don Hatch, Keith McCanless, and Glenn Gailis in the Hall of Fame.