Jim Thorpe Accomplishments

I think Jim Thorpe was a leader and a hero. Jim Thorpe was born may 28, 1887, in
Lincoln County, Oklahoma, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation. He was an All-American football player and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Thorpe was the first native american to win a gold in the olympics, he was a great and successful athlete. Jim never let anything in his way, he always kept pushing and pushing to strive to greater success.
Jim Thorpe started school in 1904 at carlisle industrial indian school in Pennsylvania. In the school he went to it offered american indian’s the opportunity to go to school and gain practical training for the real world.

While coaching thorpe he got to see a star uprising and got to see a young phenomenon in his evolve right in front of him filled with excellence in athletics.
At just the young age of 24 Thorpe sailed to stockholm sweden with the american olympics team. Jim a very young athlete competed in the olympic games of 1912, he trained while he was aboard the ship to make sure that he stayed in shape and that their was no one that could put up more of a fight than him. That shows dedication and thats whats I look for in a leader and a hero is dedication commitment and that's what jim thorpe had. Thorpe let nothing stop him even if people were dragging him down he still strived for a greater and better future for himself and his race. When the team got to the olympics Thorpe blew away the competition winning the pentathlon and the decathlon setting records that would stand for decades, all the hard work and early and long training days paid off.
To me Jim Thorpe is a hero and a legend, Jim was an outstanding athlete and man on and off the field. In 1913 his olympic medals were at high risk when the olympic committee found out he played 2 years of semi professional baseball. The committee had a strict rule about