Anne Warner Cribbs is a tour de force for all things Olympic. As a 14-year-old swimmer, she won gold in the 1959 Pan American Games. The next year as the American record-holder, Anne swam to fifth in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the 200-meter breaststroke and another gold as the breaststroker on the USA 4×100 medley relay team.

A 1979 Stanford University graduate, Anne launched a career of public relations, community service and advocacy for women in sports. Her work has spanned volunteering for the 1984 Olympic Games to co-founding the American Basketball League, the first women’s professional basketball league in the United States. She became President and CEO of the San Francisco Bay Area Sports Organizing Committee (BASOC) in 1999, and led the San Francisco Bay Area’s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.

Since then, BASOC, under Anne’s leadership, has attracted numerous national and international athletic competitions to the Bay Area. Anne has served as President of the Northern California Olympians, past Vice President of the U.S. Olympic Alumni Association and San Jose Sports Authority and is the current vice chair and Advisory Board Member for the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Anne currently is the President and CEO of the 2009 Summer National Senior Games, featuring 12,750 athletes, 18 medal sports and 7 demonstration sports, at venues at Stanford, Palo Alto, San Jose, Oakland, Sunnyvale and San Francisco, from August 1 – August 15, 2009.

Born in Menlo Park and now residing in Palo Alto, Anne and her husband have nine children.