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Erik Kjeldsen

Erik Kjeldsen

  • Class
    1954
  • Induction
    2005
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Gymnastics

- Highly respected coach, judge, and administrator in gymnastics at the high school, college, and national levels.

- Letter-winner on Springfield College gymnastics team from 1950 to 1954.  Also served as an assistant gymnastics coach at SC.

- As head men's gymnastics coach, he took UMass from a regional team to membership in the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League.

- In 1972, UMass was 2nd in the EIGL and third overall in the east. 

- Coached a female gymnast at the National AAU Gymnastic Championships and Olympic Trials in 1964 and at the National AAU Championships in 1965.

- Active member of many coaches and judges associations.

- Long-time member and former president of the New England Gymnastics Clinic Executive Committee.

- Served as Executive Secretary of the National Gymnastics Judges Association.

- Past president of the Eastern Gymnastics Judges Association.

- President and elected to the EGJA Hall of Fame in 1994.

- Founder and past president of the Massachusetts High School Gymnastics Coaches Association.

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