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Hall of Fame

Robert Elsinger

  • Class
    1965
  • Induction
    2008
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Gymnastics

- One of the top gymnasts in Springfield College history 

- Assisted Springfield to a 5th place team-finish at the 1965 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships

- Won the pommel horse in the 1965 NCAA Championships

- The following year, he earned the EIGL Championship in the pommel horse

- Became a P.E Instructor and Coach for the Elwood School District on Long Island in the fall of 1966, until retiring in 1997

- Served for many years as a coach for several teams on Long Island, including gymnastics, track, soccer, and volleyball in high school and middle school 

- Chosen the Suffolk County Boys Gymnastics Coach of the Year in 1974

- Also became a New York State Gymnastics Official, and later an official on the national and international stage

- In 1984, he received the National Gymnastics Judges Association Eastern Regional Award

- Inducted into the Eastern Gymnastics Judges Hall of Fame

- Judged Olympic and World Game trials, as well as the Goodwill Games in 1990

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