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A couple of years after the family settled in Miami, Jesse enrolled at the Jack Nelson Swim Camp for a summer. Jesse's progress there convinced his father that the up-and-coming swimmer needed a more ambitious program.
Under Schubert's cautious guidance, Jesse improved enough in his first year to qualify in the spring of 1976 for the first Short Course nationals at Long Beach's Belmont Plaza. The swimming world had only six months to prepare itself after the diminutive ninth-grader's first performance in...
Swimming is the favorite sport of all the Vassallos. In fact, Jesse is the second member of the family to receive a scholarship for his prowess in the water: Victor, who also enjoyed some success as a backstroker, received one from the University of Texas.
For the recently retired Victor, sibling rivalry with Jesse has never been intense. Even when the brothers were on opposing squads at the 1979 Pan Am Games, with Jesse representing the United States and Victor swimming with the host Puerto Rican team, the two were each other's biggest boosters...
That meet marked Jesse's first swim in his native land since his family had left it seven years previously. Sporting yellow "Vassallo" t-shirts, friends and relatives led the crowd in "Viva Vassallo" cheers, while Jesse rode the waves to a world-record 2:03.29 in the 200-meter...