Bruce Jenner

William Bruce Jenner (born October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisco, New York) is a U.S. track athlete, known principally for winning the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Bruce Jenner attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, transferring from Sleepy Hollow High School in Sleepy Hollow, New York. (Years later, the stadium there was to be named after him, but following an argument between the school and Jenner concerning the high school's construction project that was to displace an ancient Indian burial mound, the stadium is now called Blue and Gold Stadium.) Jenner earned a football scholarship and attended Graceland College (now Graceland University), but a knee injury forced him to stop playing football and switch to the decathlon. He was mentored by Graceland's track coach L.D. Weldon, who was the first to recognize Jenner's potential and encouraged him to pursue decathlon. Jenner debuted in the decathlon at the Drake Relays in 1970- placing sixth.

Bruce Jenner began to play sports because he had a learning disability, dyslexia, when he was in middle school he began to play football, after that he started to play every sport and he was good at all of them.[citation needed]