Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Updates


South Texas Flying Fish masters coach Dirk Marshall appeared on yesterday's MSS:


Also on Swimming World, TWST raised over $3,500 for the Karen T. Stall Research & Breast Foundation.  More here.


Women's swimming will return to Indiana State in 2016.  More here.

Press release makes it sound like something new, but ISU did have men's and women's teams until the sport was discontinued in 1982.


That pic of "The Launch" was part of the slide show at the Marcus Whitman Hall of Fame induction ceremony last week.  Clare & I:


The man that started it all, coach Henry Savage:



Oh how patient he must have been to put up with me for four years...



5 comments:

Deer Slayer said...

Congrats on a great honor. ATAWAYTOGO !!!! Well deserved. You have touched many lives in a positive way.

Button said...

thanks. quite an honor. first swimmer to go in. others definitely belong.

Anonymous said...

Lazy Rice swimmer writes; Button, you are a true original, congrats and keep up the fight!

Button said...

no such thing as a lazy rice swimmer, is there?

thanks!

Rocky Top said...

Congrats Bob. Hall of Fame has a nice ring to it. Northern Iowa dropped men's swimming right after they built a new pool in the '90s, which figures, we have about 4 or 5 swimmers in the Hall but they still have some catching up to do.