Head Coach Miles Avery Featured in International Gymnast – Ohio State Buckeyes
5/2/2008 12:00:00 AM | General, Men's Gymnastics
Decorated Olympic, collegiate coach talks about preparing Paul and Morgan Hamm for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
COLUMBUS, Ohio Miles Avery, Ohio State men’s gymnastics head coach, appears in the May edition of International Gymnast, speaking about his work with Olympians Paul and Morgan Hamm as the two train for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
A native of Philadelphia, Avery served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Team in 1996, 2000 and 2004. Those squads posted the U.S.’s highest finishes in a full, non-boycotted Olympics, including garnering a team silver medal in Athens in 2004. Three members of the 2004 Olympic Team, Paul Hamm, Morgan Hamm and Blaine Wilson, an Ohio State gymnastics alum, as well as team alternate and former Buckeye Raj Bhavsar, trained with Avery in Columbus leading up to the Games. Paul Hamm went on to claim the all-around title, the first U.S. male in history to do so.
