As many of you may know, the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) recently celebrated it’s 60th anniversary of the Honoree Induction Ceremony in Singapore during the World Aquatics World Championships. ISHOF is based in Fort Lauderdale, so why, you ask, would you take your biggest event on the road? Well, there are multiple reasons. One is that we ARE the INTERNATIONAL Swimming Hall of Fame and it is a long way to travel for our friends on the other side of the world every year; another reason is that by taking our ceremony to an event like the World Championships, it broadens our reach to others in swimming that may never have had an opportunity to experience an induction ceremony, but because we are at Worlds, they get to experience an induction first hand. And today, because of social media, we learned how some of those attendees felt about the event.
Below is a post made by a young women named Pauline Yang, who attended the ISHOF Honoree Induction for the first time ever. Pauline is a superstar in her own right. She is a world traveller, a classical pianist and a U.S. Arts Envoy for the State Department. She attended the Honoree event in Singapore on July 28, in support of her friend, Honoree, Ous Mellouli. Simply put, her post is the reason, we at ISHOF, so what we do, day in and day out. Thank you for sharing Pauline!
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I’ve been to a lot of cool events in my life, but this 60th Annual Honoree Induction Ceremony for the Class of 2025 into the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) has got to be one of the very coolest ever. 
I was literally surrounded by greatness through so many generations of legends in swimming, diving, water polo, and artistic swimming where even “just” winning an Olympic gold medal isn’t enough to be inducted into ISHOF. 
Despite being friends with so many Olympic medalists, I was still so excited to get to see Kirsty Coventry (the new IOC President! 
), Dara Torres, Anthony Ervin, Chad le Clos, and so many others who I had only seen in my swimming magazines as a kid and who I had only watched on TV before. It was also surreal to be seated at the same table as Coach David Marsh and with Jack Alexy’s parents and incredible to discover that a few more of my friends are Hall of Famers which I didn’t even realize! 
Most special of all was getting to be there in person to honor and celebrate my legendary friend, fellow USC Trojan/6-time Olympian (!) Ous Mellouli, who has won 66 international medals and became the first swimmer in history to win Olympic gold in both the pool and in Open Water, winning the 1500m free at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 10km Open Water at the 2012 London Olympics, a feat henceforth known as “The Mellouli Double.”
It’s no secret that Olympic athletes/coaches have been some of the biggest sources of inspiration for me in both my personal life and professional career, and this absolutely continues to be the case. The amount of new inspiration gained from all the greats in that room that day was truly immeasurable and most certainly lifelong and life-changing, and I bow down to them all. 
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