Editing Sherwood C. Spring (section)

==Personal life==
Spring was active in the [[Boy Scouts of America]] where he achieved its second highest rank, [[Life Scout]].<ref name="astro-bsa">{{cite web | url =http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-558.aspx | title =Astronauts and the BSA | work =Fact sheet | publisher =[[Boy Scouts of America]] | accessdate =March 20, 2006 | url-status =dead | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20090414205119/http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-558.aspx | archivedate =April 14, 2009 }}</ref> Spring met his future wife, Debbie Cooper (an elementary school physical education teacher), while they were both students at the [[University of Arizona]].<ref>[https://tucson.com/sports/opinion-by-greg-hansen-trials-in-omaha-have-tucson-feel/article_96eee18c-3432-5129-9383-fda4d3bf239f.html Opinion by Greg Hansen : Trials in Omaha have Tucson feel]</ref>

Spring's son, [[Justin Spring|Justin]], was a member of the 2008 US Olympic Men's Gymnastics team that earned bronze in Beijing, was the men's gymnastics head coach at the University of Illinois for 12 seasons and currently an assistant coach at the University of Alabama.