Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kiki eased himself out of swimming, his sister accelerated her climb to the top of the sport. Deciding he wanted first-class coaching for his daughter closer to the 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...
Sports payed off for the Vandeweghe family, with Kiki earning a basketball and Tauna a swimming scholarship...
Last year, while Kiki played in his final and most successful season of collegiate basketball, Tauna took a year off from school to prepare for the Olympics. After moving to Philadelphia to swim once again with Haines, who by then had gone to Foxcatcher Swim Club, she saw her year go down the drain when the U.S. decided to boycott the Moscow games...
...Even if pro basketball had been my first choice. I never would have accepted their offer--it wasn't even in the ballpark. This coupled with my desire to go to law school caused me to turn down the contract and that led to the subsequent breakdown in communications." Kiki recalled...
...before applying to law school, Kiki needed one final quarter for his degree in economics; a conscientious student, Vandeweghe had lost a quarter when he had played basketball in China on a U.S. diplomatic mission...