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...third and most acclaimed in a family of five swimming sons. Vassallo first gained U.S. recognition as a member of the Mission Viejo Nadadores when he captured the 400-meter individual medley in 4:28.34 at the 1976 Outdoor Championships only days after his 15th birthday. In the five years since. Vassallo has established a reputation with his exceptional performances in the IMs and the brothers needed...
...Vassallo's father--who was hit by a car and killed a few years ago when crossing a Miami street--decided to move his family to Florida from Ponce, the largest city in southern Puerto Rico, for two reasons: He wanted to provide his sons with an opportunity to become fluent in English, and he was looking for a swim club that would develop their aquatic skills. At that time Puerto Rico did not provide the competition that the rapidly improving Vassallo brothers needed...
...chose Miami because we had other family and friends there. He was also looking for a strong swim club. Swimming is great, but sometimes I feel like all the time I spend in the water not speaking at all holds me back as far as perfecting my English." Vassallo, who speaks clearly and with only a slight accent says...
Simultaneously, Mission Viejo began to produce the steady stream of champion that has been coming out of the Southern California-based club since the early 1970s. After seeing and hearing about Nadadore swimmers. Vassallo's father decided to uproot his family once more and to head for California, where his sons could swim with Mission Viejo coach Mark Schubert...
...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 a major competition at the end of the following summer, Vassallo swam to his first national championship at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool...