Kym CARTER

Kym Carter was a heptathlete who finished 11th at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Carter started college at the University of Houston, but later transferred to LSU. She started out as a high jumper (7th at the 1980 TAC Meet) but by 1990 had transitioned full-time to the heptathlon. Her major international achievements came at the World Indoor Championships where she won a silver medal in 1995 and a bronze medal in 1997. Carter competed at the World Championships outdoors in 1993 and 1995, finishing sixth and fifth, respectively. She was USA Champion outdoors in the heptathlon in 1994 and indoors in the pentathlon in 1995. Carter was ranked #1 in the hep for the US in 1995, the first time since 1985 that another American besides Jackie Joyner-Kersee was ranked first in that event (save 1989 when Joyner-Kersee did not compete). Carter later became the executive director of the Carl Lewis Foundation and a board member of the Sound Body Sound Mind program, designed to increase physical fitness in high schools.