10 MORE extraordinary homegrown athletes

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Published: April 15, 2011

OK, so we missed a few extraordinary athletes on our original list of 10 extraordinary homegrown athletes earlier in the week. It wasn't necessarily the 10 best, and we missed some that deserved to be mentioned. So here are 10 MORE extraordinary homegrown athletes.
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Everest
American Fork, UT

I can't believe you have left out Donny Osmond who won Dancing with the Stars last year and worked out recently with Jake Heaps.

nostradomus
Woods Cross, UT

Cael Sanderson save maybe Merlin Olsen (who was sterling) is the best athelete to ever come out of Utah and possibly America. To be undefeated in the most demanding competive sport there is, and then to go on and lose one match internationally to a S Korean he later beat in the semi's on his way to winning a gold medal in Athens is unheard of in any sport anywhere. In his 2nd years as Penn State's head coach he won the NCAA championship going away. First time the title has been won by a school east of the Mississippi in over 50 years. Great person as well, like Olsen.....

PGVikingDad
Pleasant Grove, UT

Wow. Completely forgot about Jay Silvester, and he coached me - for a couple days, at least - at BYU. Great, great athlete.

sweetleaf
Cottonwood Heights, UT

Keith Lynch won 2 super stock world championships in drag racing in '82 and '83. It's borderline if that counts but worth a mention.

sid 6.7
Holladay, UT

Much better but we are still missing some Utah greats! Mabye you could do a "100 Homegrown" listing 100 of Utah's finest. Just a thought.

Slim Shady 801
Bluffdale, UT

Bruce Harty....SI Cover boy in High School....ASU

Common Ground
Salt Lake City, UT

And don't forget Danny "Little Red" Lopez.

Sytra99
Cedar Hills, UT

You gotta have Alma Richards. Utah's 1st ever Olympian, and the most dominant Utah Olympian ever; even now nearly a century after his gold medal.

eagle
Provo, UT

At least this new list has Sanderson and Fullmer and at the top where they should be...

Elcapitan
Ivins, UT

and Marvin Melville of US Olympics ski team. Great skier and a great person.

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