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Diane Simpson-Bundy is an American athlete and an eight-time Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

national team member, and was inducted into the USA Gymnastics

USA Gymnastics

United States of America Gymnastics or USAG is the national governing body for gymnastics in the United States. The mission of USA Gymnastics is to encourage participation and the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of gymnastics....

Hall of Fame, Class of 2004.

She qualified a spot for the United States into the 1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

and 1992 Summer Olympic Games. She was inducted into the Evanston Township High School

Evanston Township High School

Evanston Township High School District 202, is a four-year, comprehensive high school occupying a campus in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb along the Lake Michigan shore. ETHS serves the multiracial city of Evanston and a small portion of the neighboring village of Skokie, for a total...

Athletic Hall of Fame.

Simpson-Bundy won more than 20 international medals, three Olympic Festival titles, and 22 national titles – including winning all four event finals and the All-Around title at the 1988 U.S. National Championships

U.S. National Championships

U.S. National Championships may refer to:* United States national amateur boxing championships* United States Figure Skating Championships* U.S. National Championships , before 1968, the tennis tournament now called the U.S. Open...

in San Rafael, California

San Rafael, California

San Rafael is a city and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area...

. – during her career. (Reference?)

Competitive history

1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Valladolid, Spain on October 10–13, 1985.-Participants:The following countries sent competitor Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary,...

1986 Goodwill Games

The 1986 Goodwill Games was the inaugural edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held from 5 – 20 July 1986. The main stadium was the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union...

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Finals

1986 Four Continents Championships competition

1987 Pan American Games

1987 Pan American Games

The 1987 Pan American Games, officially known as the X Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, from 7 August to 23 August 1987. Over 4,300 athletes from 38 countries in the Americas competed in 30 sports earning...

Won two gold medals and two silver medals at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1987.

1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Varna, Bulgaria on September 17-20, 1987.-Participants:The following countries sent competitor Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel,...

1988 Four Continents Championships competition

1988 Summer Olympics

1988 Summer Olympics

Team

One of two rhythmic gymnasts on the 1988 U.S. Olympic Team -- the third of seven American individual rhythmic gymnasts ever to qualify for the Olympic Games.

1989 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

The XIV World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, on 27 September - 1 October 1989.-Individual All-Around:-Individual Rope:-Individual Ball:-Individual Hoop:-Individual Ribbon:-Team All-Around:-References:*...

Finals competitor

1990 Goodwill Games

The 1990 Goodwill Games was the second edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held between July 20 and August 5, 1990. Following an inaugural edition in Moscow, the second games took place in Seattle, United States, highlighting the competition's role in...

1990 Four Continents Championships competition

1991 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

1991 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships

The XV World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Athens, Greece, on October 9–13, 1991.-Individual All-Around:-Individual Rope:-Individual Ball:-Individual Hoop:-Individual Clubs:-Team All-Around:-References:*...

1992 Pan American Games

Won bronze at the 1992 Pan American Games in Cuba.

2004 USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame

Education and work

Simpson-Bundy graduated from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

’s Medill School of Journalism

Medill School of Journalism

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is a constituent school of Northwestern University which offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. It has consistently been one of the top-ranked schools in Journalism in the United States...

with a double major in journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

and political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

and worked as a media relations and events specialist at the College of American Pathologists

College of American Pathologists

The College of American Pathologists , is a medical society serving more than 17,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world....

.

She has worked News broadcasting

News broadcasting

News broadcasting is the broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio or internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network...

in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

and with other national television news and radio stations, including WJWJ-TV in Beaufort, South Carolina

Beaufort, South Carolina

Beaufort is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. The city's population was 12,361 in the 2010 census. It is located in the Hilton Head Island-Beaufort Micropolitan...

, WBBM

WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV, virtual channel 2 , is the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located in The Loop section of Chicago, as part of the development at Block 37, and its transmitter is atop the Willis Tower.-History:WBBM-TV traces its history...

-TV, WMAQ

WMAQ-TV

WMAQ-TV, channel 5, is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC Television Network, located in Chicago, Illinois. WMAQ-TV's main studios and offices are located within the NBC Tower in the Streeterville neighborhood, with an auxiliary street-level studio on the Magnificent Mile at 401...

-TV, WFLD

WFLD

WFLD, virtual channel 32 , is the Fox owned-and-operated television station, based in Chicago, Illinois; through its parent company News Corporation, the station is owned in a duopoly with area MyNetworkTV affiliate WPWR-TV...

-TV FOX 32, WMVP

WMVP

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-AM 1000.

Served as Illinois press coordinator for Sen. John Kerry

John Kerry

John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

for President in 2004.

Chicago 2016 Olympics bid

Simpson-Bundy held the role of manager of athlete relations and communications for the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics from 2006 to 2009.
She accompanied about 20 Olympians and elite athletes—including Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Jacqueline "Jackie" Joyner-Kersee is a retired American athlete, ranked among the all-time greatest athletes in the women's heptathlon as well as in the women's long jump. She won three gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals, in those four different events...

, Michael Johnson, Edwin Moses

Edwin Moses

Edwin Corley Moses is an American track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals and set the world record in his event four times...

, Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin

Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin is a Russian-American artistic gymnast. She was the 2008 Olympic individual all-around Champion, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars...

, Bart Conner

Bart Conner

Bart Wayne Conner is a former American gymnast who, as a member of the gold medal-winning men's gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games won an individual gold on the parallel bars...

, Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...

, Willie Banks

Willie Banks

William Augustus Banks III is an American athlete. Born at Travis Air Force Base, California, he grew up in San Diego County and went to Oceanside High School. Banks is an Eagle Scout....

, Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo , commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA...

, David Robinson

David Robinson

-Sports personalities:*David Robinson , American player*David Robinson , cricketer*David Robinson , English professional player; striker from 1988 to 1998...

, Brandi Chastain

Brandi Chastain

Brandi Denise Chastain is a professional American soccer defender and midfielder who plays for the team California Storm of Women's Premier Soccer League and is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team....

and David Diaz -- to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the 2016 Olympic Games Host City announcement that took place Oct. 2, 2009.

Post Olympics career

Simpson-Bundy is the president of the Midwest Chapter of U.S. Olympians and Paralympians, the regional chapter of the U.S. Olympians Association. Her term is from 2006 to 2012. She also serves as secretary of the Female Athlete Triad Coalition, a 501(c)(3) global health advocacy collaboration.

She is an American College of Sports Medicine

American College of Sports Medicine

The American College of Sports Medicine is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world. More than 40,000 international, national and regional members and certified professionals are dedicated to advancing and integrating scientific research to provide educational and...

Certified Personal Trainer

Personal trainer

A personal trainer is a fitness professional involved in exercise prescription and instruction. They motivate clients by setting goals and providing feedback and accountability to clients. Trainers also measure their client's strengths and weaknesses with fitness assessments...

Magazines, newspapers

Appeared in Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle (magazine)
Mademoiselle was an influential women's magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by Condé Nast Publications....

in 1989. The magazine ceased publication in 2001.

External links

U.S. Olympians & Paralympians Association—Midwest *http://www.midwestolympians.com/diane-simpson-bundy
Olympians for Olympians Relief Fund (OORF) *http://www.oorf.org/our-purpose
http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/diane-simpson-1.html
US Gymnastics Hall of Fame: *http://www.usghof.org/files/bio/d_simpson/d_simpson.html
US Olympians Association *http://www.teamusa.org/resources/u-s-olympians-association
US Olympians Leadership Team 2009-2012 *http://www.teamusa.org/resources/u-s-olympians-association/united-states-olympians-leadership-team