Wrestling
Inducted Class of 1997
A 1950 Graduate of Geneva High School, Jamie lettered in football, track, and wrestling. He won a sectional championship in the heavy weight class in wrestling in his senior year, his first year of wrestling. He played a key role to lead his team to a Class B Sectional Title that year. In football he was named to the second team Honor Society, he was ranked 12th in his graduating class.
He entered the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1954, and made the training table teams in football, wrestling, and lacrosse. His sophomore year he was ranked #1 in wrestling in the 177lb class until a serious knee injury cut short his career. He graduate with distinction in the top 15% of his class and was a Rhodes Scholar Nominee. While serving the U.S Navy, he became certified in 1972 as an international wrestling referee-judge in the World Olympic Wrestling Federation (FILA). In that same year, he officiated in the Munich Olympics. In 1978, he was awarded the FILA’s Gold Medal of Honor, the highest international wrestling medal. A career naval officer and nuclear submariner, he retired from the U.S Navy in 1975 in the rank of Commander.