Betty-Jean Maycock

Betty Jean Maycock Harrington (born December 13, 1942) is a former Olympic gymnast from Cleveland, Ohio. Maycock was a member of the American gymnastics team that placed ninth at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Prior to the Olympics, she was part of the first collegiate women's gymnastics team in the United States at Kent State University in 1959 while still a student at Kent State High School. She also won four medals at the 1959 Pan American Games. Following the Olympics, she returned to college, graduating cum laude from Kent State in 1964, and later earned a Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Maryland. She was married to Robert Sutton Harrington (1942–1993) in 1976, and has two daughters, Amy and Ann. She currently works with the organization Microcredit in Africa, which implements microcredit projects in Niger.

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1942 births

Kent State University alumni

Living people

Sportspeople from Cleveland

University of Maryland, College Park alumni

American female artistic gymnasts

Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Olympic gymnasts for the United States

Pan American Games medalists in gymnastics

Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States

Gymnasts at the 1959 Pan American Games

Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games

21st-century American women