Lanny Robert Bassham is an American sports shooter who won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1969, where he participated in the ROTC program. In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham did not win the gold medal in International Rifle Shooting, winning silver instead, but blamed his suboptimal performance on mental. Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a class in controlling the mind under pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding something satisfactory, Bassham began to interview Olympic gold medalists to discover what they were doing to win. Bassham created a system of mental control he called Mental Management. Within the next six years Lanny Bassham dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4 world records and winning the coveted Olympic gold medal in Montreal in 1976. 

January 2nd, 1947 in Comanche (Age 77)