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DIANE SIMPSON (gymnastics, 1988), President

Steve Gregg, PhD, claimed the silver medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and at the 1975 Pan American Games. Gregg won the Olympic silver medal in a United States sweep. He represented the United States on 14 international teams and medaled in nearly every major world event during the 1970s and 1980s, which included breaking Mark Spitz’s Olympic Record in Montreal. Gregg is the current vice president of the Midwest Chapter of U.S. Olympians and Paralympians and serves as Account Director at Abelson Taylor, the largest full-service healthcare advertising agency. Gregg earned a Bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University, s Master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. degree in Exercise Biochemistry - Physiology from University of California, Berkeley. Gregg, a former partner at Hackworth Lee, Inc., director of marketing at Afficient, and Vice President Group Account Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas, started his career with the Gatorade Division of the Quaker Oats Company.
LINDA MASTANDREA (athletics, 1992, 1996), U.S. Olympians Association Vice President
A two-time Paralympian and world record-holder, Linda Mastandrea (1992, 1996) won a Gold and a Silver medal in track at the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta and represented the United States at three World Championships, the Pan American Games and the Stoke-Mandeville Wheelchair Games, winning 15 gold and five silver medals. Mastandrea graduated in the top ten in her high school class and went on to earn her BA from the University of Illinois in 1986 and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1994. Mastandrea served as Director of Paralympics and Accessibility and as a board member at Chicago 2016 and continues to work as an attorney with a specialty in disability law and advocacy. A published author of a book titled "Sports and the Physically Challenged: An Encyclopedia of People, Events and Organizations," Mastandrea has received numerous awards for her accomplishments and serves on many boards. Named one of Crain’s Chicago Business Forty Under 40, she received the International Olympic Committee President’s Disabled Athlete Award, the David Award from the Italo-American National Union, and was named an Outstanding Woman Leader in Sports by the YWCA of DuPage. Mastandrea, who serves as the Midwest Chapter secretary, is the first Paralympian to hold office in a U.S. Olympians Assoc. regional chapter. She was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Ann Swisshelm (curling, 2002), Secretary
Active curler Ann Swisshelm is training for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Her foursome of Olympians Erika Brown, Debbie McCormick and Jessica Schwartz helped the United States qualify a spot at the Olympic Games with its recent finish at the 2013 World Championships. Swisshelm is a 2003 World Champion who competed at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and twice was a runner-up at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Swisshelm has years of experience as an active member of Olympic Movement committees that included a term on the leadership team of the Athletes' Advisory Council for the U.S. Olympic Committee. She is a five-time U.S. National Champion, an event she has competed in for nearly 20 years, winning numerous medals of every color. She also served as a Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid Committee member.

John Vande Velde competed in men’s team pursuit, 4,000 meters at the 1968 Olympic Games and in the men’s individual pursuit and team pursuit at the 1972 Olympic Games. He is a U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee, Class of 2004. He won a bronze medal in the Pan American Games and is a three-time national champion. Vande Velde is also father to two-time Olympian and Tour de France rider Christian Vande Velde (cycling, 2000, 2008) and is the former vice president of USA Cycling. Professionally, Vande Velde is known as the builder of the “Vande-drome,” a portable velodrome, and as one of the United States’ first successful professional cyclists. He is also noteworthy for his role in the critically acclaimed “Breaking Away.” Vande Velde is the Treasurer of the Midwest Olympians and Paralympians