One of the best still rings specialists in school history
Three-time All-American and one of six multiple-time NCAA Champions in ISU gymnastics history
Won his first national championship on still rings as a sophomore and then edged teammate Doug Wood for the title in his junior year
The Cyclone teammates – Heaver and Wood – had a season-long battle for national supremacy again in 1976 and Heaver settled for second place (to Wood) at the NCAA Meet
Heaver was one of seven finalists for the Nissen Award, given annually to the nation’s top college gymnast as a senior