Author: Meg Keller-Marvin

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP NEWS / FUKUOKA: ISHOF 2023 Honor Coach Bob Bowman and Carol Capitani Eager to Lead Team USA at World Championships

by John Lohn, Swimming World Editor

Bob Bowman and Carol Capitani Eager to Lead Team USA at World Championships

When the United States arrives in Fukuoka, Japan for the World Championships, July 18-25, Bob Bowman and Carol Capitani will be charged with guiding the Red, White and Blue to the top of the medals table. As the Team USA head coaches, they’ll oversee the American training camp, finalize relay selections and provide advice to the U.S. athletes.

Bowman, the head man at Arizona State University, is no stranger to this responsibility, as he has previously served as the United States’ head coach at the Olympic Games and World Champs and has been an assistant coach on numerous occasions. The head women’s coach at the University of Texas, Capitani, meanwhile, will guide Team USA at the World Champs for the first time, although she was an assistant last year, and was the U.S. women’s head coach at the 2017 World University Games.

Here are some thoughts from Bowman and Capitani on their head-coaching roles:

BOB BOWMAN

On serving as head coach:

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick

“It’s a tremendous honor and a huge responsibility. You want to see the country do well. I want to provide the best leadership I can and do things right. It’s a chance to give back to the young kids because I was fortunate to have been given opportunities (through the years).”

On what he has learned through the years:

“I’ve had the chance to learn from some great coaches: (Dennis) Pursley, (Mark) Schubert, (Frank) Busch, (Eddie) Reese and (Jack) Bauerle. They are the best at bringing teams to their best. You learn so much about coaching and working together. You see so much you think about bringing (home). We might stick with what got us there, but you pick up a lot of little things. It’s a great experience.”

CAROL CAPITANI

On serving as head coach:

“It’s always an honor to represent Team USA at any international competition, so I’m happy to be of service and lead this women’s team the best I can. There have been some amazing performances this summer, and I can’t wait to see the competition in Indy (June 27-July 1) to make the team. I learned a lot in Budapest last year in the company of Todd (DeSorbo), Anthony (Nesty) and all the talented coaches on staff, and look forward to working together with this team. It’s going to be fun and fast.”

On her goals for the team in Fukuoka:

“The goal for any USA team in international competition is to win the medal count. The team crushed it last summer, and I don’t see our vision or expectations changing. We’d really like to put up some great relays on the road to Paris, and I think we have the pieces to do that.”

2024 OLYMPIC GAMES: 2017 ISHOF HONOREE GEORGES VALLEREY ( POOL) (RE)JUMPS INTO THE DEEP END

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APRIL 2023

Located in the 20th arrondissement, this pool was built in 1924 for the Paris Olympics. A century later, it is being renovated to welcome the athletes of the 2024 Olympics and to become a training site.

D-500 to go before the City of Light welcomes athletes from around the world for the 2024 Olympic Games. For the occasion, Paris is thinking big, and the capital is innovating and renovating. New buildings are coming out of the ground, while old buildings are being given a makeover. Like the Yves-du-Manoir stadium in Colombes, which hosted the 1938 World Cup final, the Georges Vallerey swimming pool is one of the sites that the city of Paris is recycling and renovating for the long-awaited Olympic Games.

Behind the building site structures and barriers, the establishment already displays the Olympic rings, symbols of these world-famous sporting events. And these colored rings, the Georges-Vallerey pool knows them well.

Georges-Vallerey complex

First Olympic pool

A century ago, the large pool of the Georges-Vallerey complex counted great exploits in its waters. Notably that of the American Johnny Weissmuller, three-time Olympic medalist, who later became Tarzan on the screen. In addition to these feats, it was avant-garde. It was, in France, the first Olympic pool with a 50-meter pool, which innovated by separating the pool into several lines, to create lanes.

A place full of nostalgia and victories, which unfortunately will not host new swimming events next year, due to a lack of seats in the stands. It will however be used as a training site before becoming an almost historical monument of the French capital.

A little rejuvenation

Inside, some 50 workers are working hard to complete the work in time for the beginning of next year. In addition to the floors, walls and everything in between of the building from the last century, the biggest part of the renovation concerns the swimming pool and especially the roof covering, which, since January, no longer exists!

This reconstruction was entrusted to the French architectural firm AIA architectes and led by Romain Viault, of the firm Architecte(s). A first construction site between 1986 and 1989 has already allowed the pool to change its cut, or rather its roof with a mechanism that allows to open and close it.

To go into a little more detail, the previous roof, which was made of larch wood will be replaced by Douglas, from forests in the Vosges and Jura. The new roof will be made of polycarbonate, a light and translucent plastic material with a high thermal resistance. This renovation, which will cost around 12 million euros, is financed in equal parts by the city of Paris and Solideo (the company responsible for delivering the Olympic facilities).

Eco-responsibility on the agenda

“Through this renovation project, there is also a very strong environmental and social ambition,” explains Flavie Anet, project manager for the operation within the steering and expertise division of the Paris City Council’s Youth and Sports Department.

A “green” and responsible renovation, since the city of Paris has decided to reuse the waste from the site such as iron, rubble or old installations to give them a second life.

For example, the wood from the old framework will be used to make furniture and signage, which will be placed in the renovated pool. The city of Paris has donated another part of the wood to the Extramuros association, a solidarity carpentry that reuses materials.

Other developments and solutions are currently underway, such as improving accessibility, particularly for the visually impaired, and air quality by renovating the ventilation system, as well as modernizing the lighting, which should reduce energy consumption by 40%.

The opening is scheduled for March 2024, for athletes who will have the chance to train in the footsteps, or rather in the “fathoms” of former medal winners. For Parisians, on the other hand, it will be necessary to wait until the end of the Olympic Games, i.e. around March 2025, to swim in the pool and enjoy the good weather and the sun on summer afternoons, thanks to the future new opening roof.

Read also >THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEDALS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES

Featured photo : © AIA Architectes

GEORGES VALLEREY was inducted into ISHOF as an HONOR PIONEER SWIMMER in 2017.

Georges Vallerey

The information on this page was written the year of their induction.

FOR THE RECORD: 1948 OLYMPIC GAMES: bronze (100m backstroke); 1932 CROIX DE GUERRE AVEC ETOILE DE BRONZE (War Cross with Bronze Star); 1947 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: gold (100m backstroke); MEMBER OF FRENCH WORLD RECORD SETTING MEDLEY RELAY

In the early morning hours of the 8th of November, 1942, an armada of American destroyers, aircraft carriers and troop ships carrying 35,000 American soldiers approached the Moroccan coast under cover of darkness. Their mission was to destroy the French fleet guarding the port of Casablanca and occupy the city. The defending French warships were outgunned by the American fleet and as the battle ensued, several French vessels retreated into the harbor while under attack, hoping to avoid being sunk at sea.

Watching the battle from the beach, which was taking place a few miles out to sea, was Georges Vallerey, Jr. Although he was only 15 years old and not even 5’8” tall, he was a very strong boy, with a Herculean build and could swim like an otter. Nicknamed “Yo-Yo”, he was born in France and moved with his family to Casablanca, in the French colony of Morocco. It was in Casablanca’s Piscine Municipal, the largest swimming pool in the world, where his father taught him and his four brothers and sister to swim. Georges was always ready to help others and when he was only eleven he made news, saving a young girl from drowning.

Standing on the beach, Georges saw a ship being hit by high-explosive shells some 300 meters off the shore. By tradition, many of the sailors did not know how to swim and he quickly realized that many were drowning as they abandoned the ship. Without any hesitation, he undressed, jumped into the water and began to swim to the ship, which was still being hit by bullets and shells, through water covered with burning oil. He would rescue a sailor, return to the beach with him, and immediately swim back out to the burning wreck. While the bombing continued he didn’t stop until he found a little boat on the beach, tied a rope around his waist and swam it out to the ship. By this method he saved scores more seamen.

For his heroics, he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Bronze (War Cross with Bronze Star).

Three years later, in 1946, Georges, by now a robust young adult, began his remarkable swimming career that saw him establish with Alfred Nakache and Alexandre Jany the world record for the 300m medley relay. By 1947, he was the best French swimmer in the 200m breaststroke, 100m and 200m backstroke and 400m freestyle.

The next year, at the London Olympic Games, he won the bronze medal in the 100m backstroke. Unfortunately, the medley relay was not part of the 1948 Olympic program. The next year America’s Allen Stack, the 100m backstroke Olympic champion at London, thinking that the Casablanca swimming pool was fast, wanted to try for the world record and asked Vallerey to accompany him. Vallerey won the race in a time faster than Stack’s winning Olympic time had been.

Then in December, he swam in a Christmas Cup, where the water was at 1° Celsius (34° Fahrenheit). He developed a throat infection, that would incapacitate him for four years and finally claim his life on October 4, 1954, in Casablanca, seventeen days before his twenty-seventh birthday. In his memory, the Les Tourelles Piscine, where the swimming events of the 1924 Olympic Games were held, was renamed Piscine Georges-Vallerey. Today the pool has been renovated and is one of the great pools of the world – a lasting tribute to a great swimmer and hero who died too young.

2023 ISHOF Honoree Podcast: Listen to the greatest Paralympian: Swimmer, TRISCHA ZORN

ISHOF has some great news that we are excited to share: The Ruling Sports Podcast featuring 2023 ISHOF Honor Paraplymic Swimmer, Trischa Zorn is now available for your listening pleasure on podcast! The host of The Ruling Sports Podcast said that the Trischa Zorn episode is outperforming her normal episodes!

The episodes are available wherever podcasts can be found but we have pulled the Trischa Zorn episodes on a few of the most popular platforms below for you:

Click and enjoy!

Apple Podcasts: 41. Trischa Zorn-Hudson – Most-Decorated Paralympian On Overcoming Stigma To Find Success

Spotify: 41. Trischa Zorn-Hudson – Most-Decorated Paralympian On Overcoming Stigma To Find Success

Come and be a part of Trischa’s induction, Saturday, September 30, 2023.

ISHOF to induct Trischa Zorn as first Paralympic Swmmer into ISHOF as part of the Class of 2023

Cesar Cielo, Brazilian Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist to be inducted into ISHOF, September 2023

Cesar Cielo will be the third Brazilian swimmer to be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame, after Maria Lenk and Gustavo Borges. Ranked as the top teenager in Brazil, Cielo’s career took off when he made the decision to attend college in the United States at Auburn University. Joining forces with coaches David Marsh and Brett Hawke, Cielo not only further fueled the NCAA championship tradition of the Tigers but emerged as a world-class threat who would alter the landscape of future Olympic Games and World Championships.

Cielo’s time at Auburn also allowed him to develop into a global star. At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Cielo qualified for the finals of the 50 free and 100 free, where he placed sixth and fourth, respectively. Most important, Cielo recognized he belonged on the biggest of stages, and used this knowledge to fuel him on the road to the 2008 Olympics.

At the Beijing Games, Cielo fended off a stacked field in the 50-meter freestyle to become Olympic champion. His meet also featured a bronze medal in the 100 freestyle, and his gold in the shorter event is the only title won by a Brazilian in the Olympic pool.

The next year, at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Cielo doubled in the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle, the 100 free producing a world record. Later in the year, Cielo broke the world record in the 50 freestyle, with his 20.91 outing still standing as the global standard.

Cielo’s sprint success continued at the next two editions of the World Championships. In 2011 and 2013, he was golden in the 50 freestyle and 50 butterfly, his efforts in the fly demonstrating his ability to take his speed to another stroke. In between, he added a bronze medal in the 50 freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Cielo was also a world champion in the short-course pool.

A three-time Olympic medalist and seven-time medalist at the long-course version of the World Championships, Cesar Cielo will long be recalled as one of the finest sprinters the sport has seen.

Come join Sprinter Cesar Cielo and this year’s spectacular class of 2023 in Ft. Lauderdale.  If you cannot join us, consider making a donation. To make a donation, click here: https://ishof.org/donate/

Class of 2023 Honorees

Bob Bowman (USA) / Honor Coach

Chris Carver (USA) / Honor Coach

Cesar Cielo (BRA) / Honor Swimmer

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) / Honor Swimmer

Missy Franklin (USA / Honor Swimmer

Natalia  Ischenko (RUS) / Honor Synchronized Swimmer

Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) / Honor Swimmer

Heather Petri (USA) / Honor Water Polo Player

Michael Phelps (USA) / Honor Swimmer

Wu Minxia (CHN / Honor Diver

Sam Ramsamy (RSA) / Honor Contributor

Stephane Lecat (FRA) / Honor Open Water Swimmer

Trischa Zorn (USA) / Honor Paralympic Swimmer

2023 ISHOF Aquatic Awards – Presented by AquaCal(Formerly the Paragon Awards)

2023 ISHOF Specialty AwardsFriday, September 29, 2023

Purchase Friday Night Tickets Here

5:00 –   Cocktails and hors d’oeuvresOceanview Veranda Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach, 3030 Holiday Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 954.525.40006:00 –   Awards Ceremony Caribbean BallroomFort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach8:30 – Dinner on own

ISHOF Aquatic Awards – Presented by AquaCal

Swimming: Mike Unger (USA)Diving: Ellie Smart (USA)Water Polo: Mark Koganov (AZB)Synchro: Maria Jose Brunel (ESP)Aquatic Safety: Cullen Jones (USA)Recreational Swimming: Sophia Forte (USA)

ISHOF Specialty Awards John K. Williams Jr. Award: Gail M. Dummer (USA)Judge Martin Award:  Norman Taplin (USA)ISHOF Service Award: Laura Voet (USA)Buck Dawson Author’s Award: Elaine K. Howley (USA)Buck Dawson Author’s Award:  Tom Gompf (USA)Al Schoenfield Media Award:  John Lohn  Virginia Hunt Newman Award: Amanda GawthropeSammy Lee Award: USA Diving/Duraflex

**More ticket information to come**

 **All ticket sales are final unless event is canceled**

HOTEL INFORMATION

Host Hotel:  Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa

The Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa, (3030, Harbor Drive, Fort Lauderdale, 33316, 954. 525.4000) site of the Friday night awards ceremony is our host hotel.  The hotel has given us a special rate of $229 per room night.   Please make your reservations through the link below prior to August 29. 

(Be sure to say you do not want the resort fee or you will be charged $259)

To make reservations click here:  https://book.passkey.com/e/50527236 

Upscale retreat with private beach access, two pools, four restaurants, full-service spa and oceanside bar. Location of the Friday evening awards ceremony.

¼ mile south of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

($30 Resort fee – Guests can opt out if not interested in resort amenities)

Additional Hotel Option: 

Courtyard Marriott Fort Lauderdale Beach, 440 Seabreeze Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

(954) 524-8733.

Click Here:  Book your group rate for Honoree Ceremony 

Special ISHOF Guest Rate of $169 – $189 per night

Honoree Ceremony September 29-30, 2023: Last Day to Book: Friday, August 31, 2023.

Ever heard of Charles Steedman? He was born almost 200 years ago today and he was said to be “the Counsilman of the 19th Century”……Read about him here…….

Honor Pioneer Contributor (2000)

The information on this page was written the year of their induction.

FOR THE RECORD:  Author of first technical book on “Speed Swimming” (1867); First to define “streamlining” in swimming terms; First to reference the “crawl” relating to swimming; Swimming champion of England and Australia; Lived from 1830 – 1901.

On July 9, 1830 in London, England, Charles Steedman was born into a Dickensian world of gas-lit streets and horse-drawn carriages.  71 years later in 1901, he died in North Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.  During his life Steedman became a champion swimmer in England and Australia, two countries more than 15,000 miles apart, an unusual achievement in the mid-19th century.  But his contribution to international swimming was yet to come.

He was self-educated and excelled at everything he set out to do.  At the age of eleven he began as a mapmaker, coloring maps.  Two years later, he was a chemist’s assistant.  At fourteen, he apprenticed to a cabinetmaker and attended evening classes to learn grammar and mathematics.  At nineteen, he became a piano-maker, where his newfound knowledge of mathematics enabled accurate measuring and fitting of the spruce sound board.  So successful was he in his new craft that he was said to be “proud at having to pay income tax”, a fact that enabled him to vote (Note: At the time, the so-called “working classes” were not entitled to suffrage, unless they earned  enough to be taxed.)

Steedman learned to swim at the age of thirteen, and by age fifteen in 1845, he was a professional swimmer who already had won wagers in races around the countryside. At age nineteen, he won the championship of England from G. Pewters, a master of the sidestroke, a new racing style of the day.  (It should be noted the sidestroke had become very popular because its superior body streamlining made it faster than the traditional breaststroke of the time.)  Steedman didn’t train for races for the simple reason that after an arduous day of ten hours work, a light swim in the evening was all he could manage.  Nevertheless, in 1852, and again in 1853, he beat Frederick Beckwith, nine years his senior, for the Surrey Club Championship, the event commonly regarded as the Championship of England, and kept the winning prize belt with him throughout his life.

Steedman immigrated to Australia in 1854 and became swimming’s first internationalist when he shared England’s more advanced knowledge of the sport with his new countrymen. He became champion of Victoria, and there published the first book on speed swimming.  “Manual of Swimming” (1867) was the world’s first technical book on “speed swimming” and marked the beginning of swimming’s modern era.  The practical value of the book was enhanced by the fact that the book was actually written with the authority of experience by one of the great competitive swimmers of the era.  The book was later reprinted in 1873 in Steedman’s native London and it became internationally popular.

It is safe to say that Charles Steedman was the first notable contributor to the development of competitive swimming as a recognized sport, and his seminal work set the stage for the beginning of the modern era of swimming, later in the 19th century.  As a respected member of the new Melbourne, Australia colony, his book was well received.  The 270 page “Manual” as the book was popularly known, contained the first descriptions of racing strokes and how to train.  His description of streamlining was a written first.

As swimming’s first internationalist, Steedman’s “Manual”, as it was colloquially referred to, became the world’s first reference to bathing, plunging, diving, floating, scientific swimming, training, drowning and rescuing written by an accomplished swimmer using available sound, scientific methods of the day to authenticate his beliefs.  Steedman was “The Counsilman of the 19th Century.”

As a scientist, he used mathematics as a means to derive better speed results.  “A rapid swimmer will have to exert an effective power equal to the cube of the power exerted by the other; hence the fleet swimmer, because of his greater expenditure of power, and because of the greater resistance he meets with as a consequence of that expenditure, cannot proceed in the water at a speed more than about double of that of the slow swimmer.”

He describes the North American Indians as swimming with an alternative continuous arm action which was a type of crawl stroke, predating a subsequent reference by at least 30 years.  “Crawl” was the 19th Century term used to describe the dog paddle, as we know it today.

Large sections of “The Manual” are devoted to the need to bathe regularly and give accounts on how to rescue people.  Few people at that time washed because few people could swim.  He encouraged people to like the water and learn to swim.  He mentions the high rate of drowning and importance of skilled swimmers to rescue people from  drowning.  Steedman rescued over 66 lives without gratitude or offer of award.

(Acknowledgments to Cecil Colwin, “Two First for Charles Steedman,” SwimNews, February, 1999.)

World Aquatics Vice President, Sam Ramsamy, to be inducted into ISHOF as Honor Contributor in September: Part of Class of 2023

Sambasivan “Sam” RAMSAMY (RSA)

World Aquatics Vice President, Sam Ramsamy spent the early years of his life working toward the birth of a new South Africa. He fought for the eradication of the color ban in sport, toward creating unity in the sporting arena and advocating for the selection of teams that would be based on merit. Ramsamy insisted that athletes that of all races must be given an equal opportunity to participate.

Ramsamy was the founding member of the South African Council for Sport, established in 1973. In 1976, he became Chairperson of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) and in 1978 was named the Executive Chairman of SANROC. The two sports organizations were united in their purpose in pursuing an international sports ban on South Africa’s athletes and by doing so, fostered greater global support for the resistance against apartheid. Following the Soweto uprisings in 1976, Ramsamy petitioned countries to formalize a boycott of South African Sports, which culminated in the Gleneagles Agreement of 1977.

During the transition to democracy, he encouraged international support for the black sports body, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa and became its head in 1991.  He led the first non-racial South African team to the Olympic Games in 1992 Barcelona.

Mr. Ramsamy continued his mission in sports in South Africa, becoming a member of the IOC, FINA, numerous commissions, and serving in various roles. Currently, Ramsamy is FINA’s First Vice President, since May 2021, after serving many years as Second Vice-President (2017-2021) Vice President (2004-2017) and Bureau Member (1996-2004).

Come join Ramsamy and this year’s spectacular class of 2023 in Ft. Lauderdale.  If you cannot join us, consider making a donation. To make a donation, click here: https://ishof.org/donate/

Class of 2023 Honorees

Bob Bowman (USA) / Honor Coach

Chris Carver (USA) / Honor Coach

Cesar Cielo (BRA) / Honor Swimmer

Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) / Honor Swimmer

Missy Franklin (USA / Honor Swimmer

Natalia  Ischenko (RUS) / Honor Synchronized Swimmer

Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) / Honor Swimmer

Heather Petri (USA) / Honor Water Polo Player

Michael Phelps (USA) / Honor Swimmer

Wu Minxia (CHN / Honor Diver

Sam Ramsamy (RSA) / Honor Contributor

Stephane Lecat (FRA) / Honor Open Water Swimmer

Trischa Zorn (USA) / Honor Paralympic Swimmer

2023 ISHOF Aquatic Awards – Presented by AquaCal(Formerly the Paragon Awards)

2023 ISHOF Specialty AwardsFriday, September 29, 2023

Purchase Friday Night Tickets Here

5:00 –   Cocktails and hors d’oeuvresOceanview Veranda Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach, 3030 Holiday Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 954.525.40006:00 –   Awards Ceremony Caribbean BallroomFort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach8:30 – Dinner on own

ISHOF Aquatic Awards – Presented by AquaCal

Swimming: Mike Unger (USA)Diving: Ellie Smart (USA)Water Polo: Mark Koganov (AZB)Synchro: Maria Jose Brunel (ESP)Aquatic Safety: Cullen Jones (USA)Recreational Swimming: Sophia Forte (USA)

ISHOF Specialty Awards John K. Williams Jr. Award: Gail M. Dummer (USA)Judge Martin Award:  Norm Taplin (USA)ISHOF Service Award: Laura Voet (USA)Buck Dawson Author’s Award: Elaine K. Howley (USA)Buck Dawson Author’s Award:  Tom Gompf (USA)Al Schoenfield Media Award:  John Lohn  Virginia Hunt Newman Award: Amanda GawthropeSammy Lee Award: USA Diving/Duraflex

**More ticket information to come**

 **All ticket sales are final unless event is canceled**

HOTEL INFORMATION

Host Hotel:  Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa

The Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa, (3030, Harbor Drive, Fort Lauderdale, 33316, 954. 525.4000) site of the Friday night awards ceremony is our host hotel.  The hotel has given us a special rate of $229 per room night.   Please make your reservations through the link below prior to August 29. 

(Be sure to say you do not want the resort fee or you will be charged $259)

To make reservations click here:  https://book.passkey.com/e/50527236 

Upscale retreat with private beach access, two pools, four restaurants, full-service spa and oceanside bar. Location of the Friday evening awards ceremony.

¼ mile south of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

($30 Resort fee – Guests can opt out if not interested in resort amenities)

Additional Hotel Option: 

Courtyard Marriott Fort Lauderdale Beach, 440 Seabreeze Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316

(954) 524-8733.

Click Here:  Book your group rate for Honoree Ceremony 

Special ISHOF Guest Rate of $169 – $189 per night

Honoree Ceremony September 29-30, 2023: Last Day to Book: Friday, August 31, 2023.

Throwback Thursday

December, 1935 – The Second Annual Coaches Aquatic Forum, which would eventually become the College Coaches Swim Forum which would last well into the 2000’s.

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