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The Cincinnati Marlins swim team was founded in 1961. Eighty-nine girls were selected for the team the first year, with seventy-seven boys joining the following year. For many years the team was known as the Cincinnati "Pepsi" Marlins, in recognition of the Pepsi-Cola Company 's initial donation of $1,000 to the team. [ 4 ]
Frank Busch (born February 4, 1951) was a collegiate, national team and Olympic swimming coach from the United States best known for coaching the University of Arizona from 1989-2011. [2] He was a coach for the USA Olympic teams in 2004 and 2008 .
Andrew Ford (born June 19, 1989) is a Canadian competition swimmer. [1] He competed in the 200-metre individual medley race at the 2012 Summer Olympics; he placed first in his heat with a time of 2:00.28, but his time of 2:01.58 in the semifinal did not qualify him for the final.
He also placed 4th in the 100m breaststroke with 1:00.68. [2] In 2013 his personal best of 2:10.09 at the U.S. nationals led to him being ranked # 2 in the US, and # 9 in the world. [5] In December 2014 Johnson won the 200y breaststroke at the King Marlin Elite Pro-Am in Oklahoma City with a time of 1:54.10. [6]
Alice Jones is an American international swimmer who swam for the Cincinnati Marlins under Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen. [1] Jones was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Mr. and Mrs. Homer M. Jones. [2] At the 1970 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Outdoor Swimming Championships, Jones won two gold medals, setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter ...
He then joined the Guelph Marlin Aquatic Club at the age of 12. During his career, Davis held several world records as the winner of 31 national titles and 16 medals in international competition. At the 1982 world championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador, he set his first world record while winning the gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke.
A taxidermied marlin greets visitors to Dare County, North Carolina. In the Nobel Prize -winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea , the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck.
The Manitoba Marlins Swim Club is a competitive swim club founded over 38 years ago [clarification needed put the year or appx. year] based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.The Marlins are members of Swim Manitoba and Swimming Canada.