Floyd Scholz

Floyd Scholz (born February 27, 1958) is an American artist, author and musician known for his lifelike carvings of birds.

Upon winning the 1979 NCAA Decathlon championships, the Carter Boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics and a badly pulled hamstring ended his track career in 1980.

[3] "Even the best artists seldom attract the kind of attention that has come to Floyd Scholz," wrote Wildfowl Carving and Collecting Magazine in its Spring 1986 issue.

Among the well-known people who own his carvings are musician John Sebastian and the late actress Elizabeth Taylor, actress Glenn Close, businessman David Evans Shaw and Robert Kennedy, Jr.[4] He is a contributing editor to Wildfowl Carving Magazine.

Scholz plays guitar, five-string banjo and harmonica and has belonged to the Manic Mountain Boys since 1980 and the Vermont-based bluegrass band Lincoln Gap from 1996 to 2002.