University of Minnesota Athletics
Kenneth T. Bartlett
9/8/2007 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
| Kenneth T. Bartlett Class of 2005 Gymnastics 1950-53 |
Kenneth Bartlett’s senior year is celebrated as one of the finest in the history of Golden Gopher gymnastics. At the Big Ten Championships in 1953, Bartlett won the all-around and parallel bar titles, also placing second in the flying rings and horizontal bar. He continued to excel at the NCAA Championships, winning the flying rings and taking third in both the all-around and the parallel bars. During that season he also served as team captain and undergraduate “M” Club president. Bartlett was also the Big Ten flying rings champion his junior season and finished third at the NCAA Championships. All-American status did not exist at the time. Using today’s standards, Bartlett would have been a four- time All-American.
At the time of graduation, Coach Ralph Piper rated him the top all-around performer in Golden Gopher history.
Upon graduation, Bartlett was commissioned in the Marine Corp and served as an air controller in Korea. Bartlett went on to a very successful teaching and coaching career at Long Beach State University from 1959-1996. During his 13 years of coaching gymnastics, he had five conference or state championship teams, produced two All-Americans and 30 state or conference champions. He was appointed Professor Emeritus of Physical Education in 1993. In 1997, Bartlett was inducted into the Long Beach State University Hall of Fame.
M Club Hall of Fame
