About Rick Osbourne
Rick Osbourne is a former Physical Educator who spent seventeen years in the teaching ranks. Four of those years he spent designing, organizing, implementing, and overseeing Operation Pull Your Own Weight at Jefferson Elementary School in Davenport, IA. For the past decade he’s made his living by writing professionally.
Osbourne earned his BA (Physical Education and Journalism) at Northern Illinois University, his MA (Sports History and Philosophy) at Western Illinois University, and he did post graduate work (Sports History and Philosophy) at Arizona State University. He’s been married for 33 years, and with his wife and kids, has lived in the western suburbs of Chicago for over two decades.
Rick Osbourne
Executive Director
Operation Pull Your Own Weight
630-495-3445