David Jacobs

Early life and education Jacobs was born in 1946 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to Careta . Jacobs was a student at the University of Michigan.

Gymnastics career In 1964, he competed at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships and finished third. While there, he began a working relationship with Eddie Cole.

While Jacobs was at the University of Michigan, he competed for the Michigan Wolverines men's gymnastics team from 1967 to 1969. He was the NCAA champion in the floor exercise and trampoline at the 1967 NCAA gymnastics championships. He won a further NCAA title for trampoline in 1969 en route to being a finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award.

Personal life Jacobs was the father of David Jacobs, who created one of the largest steroid and growth hormone operations in the United States and led to "...one of the largest trafficking investigations of its kind in the nation's history..." Authorities determined Jacobs' son was the perpetrator of a murder–suicide discovered on June 5, 2008.