Before Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas wowed the world and dared many to believe, and even before Dominique Dawes and Betty Okino, there was Dianne Durham.
Durham was the first Black woman to win a U.S. gymnastics national championship.
“People referred to her as a pioneer and trailblazer,” Durham’s husband Tom Drahozal said.
Drahozal married Dianne Durham in 1994 and witnessed firsthand much of what defined his wife’s career and life. Read More
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