Our Program on Our program on the 14th was given by Pat Mader. His recent book, “Minnesota Gold”, w as the topic of his talk.
Pat is a retired school teacher who wrote this book about fifty-seven of Minnesota’s Olympian athletes. There are over 300 living Minnesotans who have competed in the Olympics, which is the top stage for amateur athletic competitions. Pat interviewed a number of them, and put his profiles of 57 of them together in this one volume.
He gave some insight into the type of person an Olympian contender is, and cited a number of athletes who missed the cut once or twice only to finally get their chance to compete.