A Salute to the Olympians of the Mason Dixon Conference

The Mason Dixon Conference schools has had a dozen athletes compete in Track and Field at the Olympic Games.

Louis Clark

JohnsHopkins University

He competed in the 1924 Games and won a gold medal in the 4x100 relay (41.0). He also set a world record in the 100 yd 9.8 in February of 1924. JHU became an original member of the conference in 1936.

Vernon Booth

Johns Hopkins University

Competed in the 2 mile run in the 1924 Olympis in Paris.

Bob Richards
Bridgewater College
He spent two years at Bridgewater before transferring to Illinois. He became the first Olympian to win two pole vault gold medals, Helsinki-1952 and Melbourne-1956. Both markes were Olympic records 14'-11 1/4" - 14'-11 1/2".

Dick Emberg
Roanoke College

All around athlete who made the 1964 Olympic Team and placed 10 in the decathlon in Tokyo scored 7292 points.

Knut Hjeltnes

Western Maryland

Placed 5^th in the 1984 Olympic Games at Los Angles in the Discus with 214’-2’. The Norwegian native also competed in Montreal in 1976 and was 7^th with 206’-11”.

Todd Scully
Lynchburg College

A cross country runner at Lynchburg in the early 70’s Scully became an often-time American race champion and competed in the 20K walk at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.

Carl Schueler
Frostburg State

A cross country runner who again turned to race walking and made the US team that did not compete in 1980 in Moscow. He came back in 1984 to finish 6^th in the L.A. Olympics in the 50K walk.

William Motti
Mount St. Marys

As a freshmen at the Mount he placed 5^th in the 1984 L.A. Olympics with a new collegiate record of 8266 points. Motti also broke Bruce Jenner’s Olympic decathlon mark in the discus..167’-1’. He competed for his native France, and was 1984 NCAA II decathlon champion. He also represented France in 1992 Olympics, in the decathlon in Barcelona, Spain.

Trond Skramstad
Mount St. Mary’s

A Norweigan native who placed 17th in the 1984 Olympic Games in the decathlon. The only Mason Dixon to win an NCAA Division I title, having won the decathlon in 1982.

Jean-Yeves Mallat
UMBC

UMBC an native of Lebanon who went unplaced in the trials of both the 100 and 200 meters at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angles.

Davison Lishebo
Mount St. Mary’s

A native of Zambia who enrolled at Mount Saint Mary’s in 1985 He advanced to the semifinal round of the 400 meters in Los Angles before being eliminated. He ran 45.57 in the trials.

Fred Owusu
Mount St. Mary’s

Born in Ghana but raised in the U.S. he was named to run the 4x400 relay for Ghana in 1984 in Los Angles. An injury to a team member prevented the team from competing.