PSAC Award of Merit Choose a Hall Of Fame Member: Angle, Kurt Baumgartner, Bruce Daly, Chuck Hutchinson, Jan Reed, Andre Schalles, Wade Spence, Steve Vogelsong, Ryan Bruce Baumgartner Class Induction 1992 Sport(s) Bruce Baumgartner Edinboro University Baumgartner was one of two inaugural recipients of the Award of Merit in 1992. Regarded as one of the greatest American wrestlers ever, he garnered the award after winning his third Olympic medal - and his second gold medal - in the 1992 Barcelona Games. Four years later, Baumgartner won his fourth medal - this one a bronze - at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where he was chosen by his fellow U.S. Olympic athletes to carry the American flag at the opening cermonies of that year's games. He ended his Olympic career with two golds, a silver and a bronze, with those coming in four different games - 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996. Now the Director of Athletics at Edinboro, a position he has held since 1997, Baumgartner also was a wrestling coach at Edinboro for nearly 13 years, including seven seasons as the head coach from 1990-97. He compiled a 70-36 dual meet record and in his final season as head coach in 1996-97, guided the Fighting Scots to a sixth place finish at the NCAA Division I Championships, which remains tied for the best program finish at NCAAs. Baumgartner did not lose to an American wrestler from 1981 until his retirement from wrestling in 1998. He is a member of the Wrestling Hall of Fame (2002), the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame (2005) and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame (2008) - just the second wrestler ever inducted into that prestigious organization.