Randy Will (born August 24, 1964) is an American former
bobsledder who competed in the
1992
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and
1994 and 1988 Winter Olympics.
Biography
Randy Will was born in New York in 1964. At Maine-Endwell High School, he was involved in the sport of Track and Field. During his Junior and Senior years he attended
Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont which is a ski school for excelled skiers. While ski racing in 1983, he had severe knee injury, which in turn ruined his ski racing career. Randy then became a bobsledder. While in the sport of bobsled, he achieved six national championships, 1985 rookie of the year, four world track records and three U.S. Olympic team births. He competed in the
Calgary Olympics (1988), Albertville Olympics (1992), and Lillehammer Olympics (1994). He retired from the sport in 1994 and began coaching the national Bobsled team. He was a Cross Country and Track and Field coach for Maine-Endwell High School from 1988 to 1994. In 1996, he was named in USOC Developmental Coach of the Year in bobsledding. In 2002, he coached
Jim Shea Jr. in the sport of
skeleton
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which led to a gold medal.
References
External links
From Bobsled to Baked Pizza.
WBNG-TV
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. November 29, 2012.
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1964 births
Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic bobsledders of the United States
American male bobsledders
People from Endicott, New York
Sportspeople from New York (state)