During the morning workouts I coach in Virginia Beach, many of us repeat the same quote: “I want to be like Marianna.”
87-year-old Marianna Berkley is an excellent swimmer, (three USMS individual...
Biography
Harry Rawstrom was the Men’s Swimming Coach at the University of Delaware from 1946-1981. He was a native of Montclair, N.J., and a two-time collegiate All-American at Springfield (Mass.). Harry...
Biography
I want to thank David Gouger and Calvin Barnes for their help in getting this information. When I first wrote about the history of Masters Swimming in Virginia, David Gouger wrote that I should...
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