"I know that sounds old fashioned, or an odd word, but he had this single goodness. "I met him as a friend and knew that the essential nature of Tim was goodness," Ahrens said. The man Ahrens described as possessing an unstoppable work ethic and a "kind and gentle soul" was the same man to everyone, friends and family members recalled this week following Mickelson's passing at home from ALS (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) early Wednesday morning. Tim Mickelson the Olympian was the same man as the guy that answered Ahrens' call when he needed help reviving the Milwaukee Rowing Club - the man who was raised in a small Wisconsin town and worked in the family grocery store, played football and then rowed at the University of Wisconsin, excelled academically and in business, married his college sweetheart, and raised a family. men's eight would have a side to him only other elite athletes would know. Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license.Gary Ahrens was sure his memories and impressions of Tim Mickelson would differ in certain ways from the men Mickelson rowed with at the 1972 Olympics and 1974 world championships.Īhrens - a self-described "ham and egger club rower" - was certain that someone who won an Olympic silver medal and a world championship gold in the U.S. "The Boys on the Roof (or, The Real Cuban Missile Crisis)"."In Memory of a Man of Consistency: Timothy Carl Mickelson (1948–2017)".Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Evans, Hilary Gjerde, Arild Heijmans, Jeroen Mallon, Bill et al.On August 30, 2017, he died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at his home outside Seattle, Washington at the age of 68. After leaving Marquette Electronics in 1998, he moved to Seattle, WA to serve as CEO of ATL/Philips Medical – Ultrasound division until his retirement in 2007. His career began in 1980 as a product manager at Marquette Electronics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where worked his way up to become the President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. Following his discharge, he pursued a master's degree in biomedical engineering at Dartmouth College and a PhD in exercise physiology at Ohio University. Upon graduation, he served two years in the Army, stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC where he worked as an environmental engineer. Mickelson was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI where he earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. In 1975 he was a member of the USA 8+ which placed first in the 1975 Pan American Games. In 1972 he rowed #5 in the USA 8+ which placed second at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, and in 1974 he rowed bow in the USA 8+ which won the 1974 World Rowing Championships on the Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was a six-year member of the USA rowing team. Timothy Carl Mickelson (Novem– August 30, 2017) was a medical electronics executive and an American rower who competed and won medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, the 1974 World Rowing Championships, as well as the 1975 Pan American Games.
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