Gar O'Quinn

Gar O’Quinn attended the US Military Academy. He won gold with the team and bronze in pommelled horse at the 1959 Pan American Games. In 1963 he won gold in pommelled horse and with the team as well as bronze in parallel bars at the Pan Ams. O’Quinn trained for the 1963 Pan Am Games at Southern Illinois University.

O’Quinn later earned a masters’ degree in physical education and then earned a Ph.D. from Penn State University. He taught physical education at the University of Texas and then at UTEP (University of Texas at El Paso). O’Quinn retired in 2005. He was inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1995.