Hall of Fame
- Highlights: All-American in the uneven bars, SRU record setter in the all-around competition, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise, PA Intercollegiate champion on the balance beam, member of PA Intercollegiate championship team and sixth place team at National Championships.
Lynn (Portzer) Kime is being posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame on the merits of an exceptional gymnastics career in which she excelled in multiple disciplines while leading The Rock as a team captain.
She burst onto the scene at SRU by earning MVP honors as a freshman on the 1974 gymnastics team. She also became the first female athlete to win the N. Kerr Thompson Award for Achievement.
Kime would serve as a captain of the team in both her junior and senior seasons. She competed in all the disciplines and at one point in her career would set SRU records for the highest score in the all-around competition, as well as on the balance beam, floor exercise and uneven bars.
She helped lead the squad to the PA Intercollegiate Class A state title and was the top point scorer on a team that qualified for the National Championships for the first time in school history. That squad would go on to place sixth at the first-ever small college national meet in 1978.
Kime's best individual performance came in the uneven bars, where she earned All-America honors with a 10th place finish at the 1978 national meet, helping The Rock to a sixth place finish in the final team standings.
She is fondly remembered by her teammates for her willingness to work hard and be supportive of the total team efforts. Her teammates fittingly called her the "rock" under pressure.
Kime earned her physical education teaching degree from Slippery Rock in 1978 and went on to a teaching career that spanned more than 31 years as a physical education teacher in Boardman Local Schools in Ohio. She worked at both Glenwood Middle School and West Boulevard Elementary School during her tenure.
She is survived by her husband, Scott, and the couple's three children, Mark, Robert and Carissa, along with grandchildren Noah and Connor.
