a Page 10-Thursday, February 18, 1982-The Michigan Daily Hard work pays dividends for By CHUCK JAFFE Micki King Hogue likes to do things the hard way. She came to Michigan as a diver in 1962 when there was no women's diving team, lost an Olympic medal by a fluke accident before winning the medal in her second attempt, and was the first woman ever to teach at the all-male Air Force Academy. Now, as the Chief of Public Affairs for the United States Air Forces in Europe, Hogue is trying to improve the role of amateur athletes in sports politics. "WHEN I RETIRED, I had time to use my clout and name to change the sport on the Olympic Advisory Coun- cil," said Hogue, now an Air Force major. "We've made it so that every Olympic Committee, by law, must have 20 percent athlete participation." But the struggle to help athletes gain control of their sport is not the first hardship that Hogue has undertaken. When she enrolled at Michigan in 1962, she joined a university that had no women's athletic program. "Michigan had the coach, and I thought the coach was what I needed," the Pontiac native remembered. "I never had the advantage of competing every weekend. I practiced with the men's team, but only competed twice a year - during national competition.'' "THERE WERE ONLY a few places a girl could go," said Michigan diving coach Dick Kimball. "Her greatest asset was her strength. She learned how to be a great competitor, but she came in here with great strength. "She stayed and trained here for 10 years," Kimball continued. "She was always a true Michigan supporter and she really helped the team." After spending 4. years training at .Michigan, Hogue graduated in 1966, having won a national championship in 1964. After going through officers training in Texas, she returned to work with Michigan's ROTC program and train for the 1968 Olympics. her last dive, was the same dive she did with her broken arm in 1968. "The Olympics can't be related to anything," said Hogue, a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. "When Cincinnati loses the Super Bowl they can win it the next year, but if you blow the Olympic Games, you come back in four years. "ALL I COULD think about was revenging that stupidity - that mental error," she continued. "I wasn't sad about losing,;I was fighting mad. When you're an individual performer, you're at fault, and when you look in the mirror, you're looking at the reason you lost. All I wanted was to. revenge the stupidity of breaking my arm. "1972 was a totally different story," Hogue added. "It was my second Olympics, and so I was really there for business, and I wasn't going to be awed by it all. When I stood on that victory stand, I couldn't believe I had pulled it off. It was like a fairy tale. Some people set goals they never achieve, but I had gotten my goal." Hogue's comeback story won her fans across the country, but shortly after her logue return she had a tougher group to win over: the cadets at the United States Air Force Academy. 4 HOGUE JOINED THE academy's staff in 1973, as the first woman instruce tor at a school that had yet to accept women. "To tell you the truth, I had every qualification, so I wasn't a token," said Hogue, who joined the academy three years before women were admitted.. "The thing that made it easy with the students was the gold medal. With that credential, I could break in with the' respect. "At first, everyone wanted to be in my classes because it was a noveltyj she continued. "But my goal was not t be a novelty. I wanted them to respect me as a teacher and instructor, and they came to respect me for the right reasons." NOW STATIONED in West Germany, Hogue aspires to return to the academy soon as the women's athletic director. "That's what I'd like to do now; Hogue said. "I think that I can help athletes through my experiences, and help the women in the academy especially." If Hogue is named women's AD at the United States Air Force Academy, it is likely that she'll tackle her new respon- sibilities with the same success and methods she has put into the rest of her career. For Micki King Hogue, it seems that the right way is the hard way. Openings for Teaching Assistants THE OLYMPICS were both a place of achievement and failure for Hogue. In 1968, she was leading the competition when on the ninth of her ten divesta mental error on the dive cost her the competition. Hogue's left arm was shattered when it struck the diving board, and although she completed the competition, she finished fourth. Hogue competed again in the 1972 Olympics, and this time won the gold medal. Included in her performance, as 'When I stood on that victory stand, I couldn 't believe I had pulled it off. It was like a fairy tale. Some people set goals .they never achieve, but I had gotten my goal. ' -Micki King Hogue, Olympic gold medalist in the Women's Studies Program= Summer and Fall 354 Lorch Hall 763-2047 a non-dlscrlminotory, affirmative action employer featuring ( 1b (erman E~taturant Escap -locklust visit an tly locat Old Ger brick w rough-h kegs, ar steins p destroye to the ui Supre order as way m foreign- German Food for Tho e the confines of too-often and served with savory gravy and real er American dining tonight and German potato salad, creates another old German tavern convenien- delectable dinner. ed at 120 W. Washington. 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