Mike Jacki is the Big Cheese of Woodward Properties, where he directs its licensing, sponsorship and new business development. Woodward is an action sports company, which, of course, explains his interesting title. Woodward specializes in camps and instructional programs for in-line skating, skateboarding, BMX and gymnastics. Woodward's three renowned resident camps are located in California, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Mr. Jacki is also the President of the United States Association of Independent Gymnastics Clubs, Inc, a national trade organization that represents and assists more than 500 independent gymnastics club businesses and conducts three annual national events with more than 2,000 athletes.

Mr. Jacki has served in a variety of senior leadership positions in Olympic and international sport for over twenty years. He has been President and CEO of the United States Ski and Snowboard Association and for ten years was President and CEO of the United States Gymnastics Federation.
He also has served multiple terms as a Vice President, Executive Committee member and Chair of the Marketing Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation. He served for eight years on the board of the 1996 Olympic Games organizing committee. He was President of the 1991 World Gymnastics Championships Organizing Committee and Competition Director for Gymnastics at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Mr. Jacki was a Board Member of the United States Olympic Committee for thirteen years, and served as Chair of its Training Centers Committee and a member of its Athlete's Performance Group and Marketing Committee.

On a local level, Mr. Jacki was a Trustee of the National Institute for Fitness and Sport in Indianapolis for thirteen years and appointed to the Indiana Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

From 1995 until 1998, he was the President of the Sports Resource Group, which was responsible for all joint marketing, sales and promotional activities involving the sports products and companies owned by its parent corporation, which included Astroturf, American Athletic Inc., Basketball Products International, Sport Court, Martin Surfacing and Sports Construction Group.

Mr. Jacki was graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelors of Education degree in 1969, and has done graduate work at both the University of Illinois Medical Center and Northwestern University Graduate School.

He received a full scholarship to Iowa State where he was an NCAA All-American gymnast. Four times he was both Big 8 Conference Champion and NCAA Regional Champion. He was awarded an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship and the Big 8 Conference Athletic/Academic Achievement Medal. A bronze medalist (rings) in the 1966 National Championships, he represented the United States in five international meets and competed in the 1968 Olympic Trials.
 
 
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