VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME


Nini Wuensch Anger

Colchester/Shelburne/St. Albans

Gymnastics

Inducted 2025

A multi-time gymnastics champion in high school, Nini Wuensch Anger went to compete at the NCAA Division I level, and became a longtime coach and official of the sport in the state.

A 1977 graduate of the new Colchester High School, where she was the state's most dominant gymnast and was a fearless field hockey goalie. She has the distinction of being a three-time individual state champion in the All-Around in Vermont gymnastics.  She most likely would have been a four-time winner, but Nini has the added academic distinction of graduating from Colchester High in three years. Her efforts in 1977 for Colchester were recognized by Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd in its May 30th issue.

She received a scholarship to nationally-ranked Southern Illinois where as a freshman she competed for the Salukis in the 1978 AIAW National Championships (the AIAW pre-dated the NCAA for women’s athletics). After graduation from the University of New Hampshire, she returned to coach at Colchester in 1982, and in 1986, became the women’s coach at UVM until 1994, earning ECAC coach of the year honors her last season.

A former resident of Shelburne and now in St. Albans, Anger has served the sport of gymnastics in the state as a coach and admistrator for many years at the amateur and high school level. For 10 years from 2010 to 2020, she also has been a competitor, coach and fundraiser in the annual Dragon Boat competitions on Lake Champlain. Along with her husband Tom, her team competed in the 2014 International Dragon Boat Federation’s World Club Crew Championships in Ravenna, Italy.

The Vermont Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association voted her its 1976-77 High School Athlete of the Year, only the second woman in the 12-year history of the award, joining VSHOF inductee Barbara Cochran. She was inducted into the VPA Hall of Fame in 2024.


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