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Having won the 200-breast in Munich at the 1972 games and the 100 in 1976, while lowering his own world record to 1:03.11. the veteran Santa Clara Swim Club member missed a chance to become the only swimmer ever to earn gold medals in three Olympics, when the U.S. chose to boycott...
...will often find them reluctant to compete in less than top condition. Over the past couple of years John's professional commitments haven't allowed him the luxury of a traditional workout schedule, yet he gambled with a more concentrated effort and it's payed off" former Santa Clara Swim Club Coach George Haines said recently from the office he now occupies as coach of De Anza Swim Club...
...thought enough of the young breaststroker to offer him only the second full swimming scholarship given in the school's history. A graduate of Cupertino High School, Hencken, whose early years in the sport were supervised by Tatto Yamashita at the Berkeley YMCA before the family moved to Snata Clara, followed in the foot-steps of Brian Job, another of Haines' proteges. Job, also a breaststroker, received that first full swimming scholarship given by Stanford...
...family home in West Los Angeles. Tauna's father found exactly what he was looking for right across the street from the Vandeweghe home, on the UCLA campus. It was 1975, and the Bruin Athletic Department had just lured George Haines away from the highly successful Santa Clara Swim Club. Besides taking on the UCLA men's swim team. Haines consented to accepting Tauna, a female, high-school backstroker...
That land was California, and the throne was controlled first by George Haines and his Santa Clara Swim Club and then by their heir apparent, Mark Schubert and Mission Viejo, with an interregnum at Arden Hills under Sherman Chavoor...