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Sherm Chavoor (April 10, 1919 – September 3, 1992) [3] was a Hall of Fame swimming coach from the United States. He coached Olympic swimmers Mark Spitz, Debbie Meyer, Mike Burton, Jeff Float, Susan Pedersen, John Ferris, Dave Fairbank, John Nelson and Ellie Daniel at Arden Hills Swimming and Tennis Club in Sacramento, California, which he founded in 1954 and coached through 1985. [4]
On January 1, 2020, Jeff was invited to come "home" to the Arden Hills Athletic & Social Club, where it all began over a half-century ago. There he enjoyed being the Head Coach of the Otters Swim Team, Executive Assistant Coach of the USA Swimming year-round Arden Hills Aquatics, and a personal trainer to athletes of all levels.
At age six, his family returned to Sacramento, California, and he began to compete at his local swim club. At age nine, he was training at Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento with swimming coach Sherm Chavoor, who mentored six other Olympic medal winners. At only 10, Spitz held one world age-group record and 17 national records. [7]
The family-run Arden Hills private club and resort — which for generations has fostered Olympic swim athletes and professional tennis players among its Sacramento suburban member families — is ...
John Ferris was an American swimmer who won two bronze medals in the 1968 Olympics and a world record in the 200 butterfly. He also competed for Stanford University and the Arden Hills Swim Club, where he trained with Mark Spitz.
Arden Hills, a private club and resort in Sacramento, will close at the end of 2023 and be rebranded as Life Time Arden by the national fitness company. The club, which opened in 1954, has a ...
He trained for the 68 Olympics with Sherm Chavore's Arden Hills Swim Club. [5] For the 1968 Olympics, he was trained by Hall of Fame Coach Sherm Chavoor at the Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento, as were fellow 1968 U.S. team swimming Olympians Mark Spitz, Mark J. Burton, John Ferris and Sue Peterson. Chavoor was one of the early coaches to ...
Debbie Meyer is an American former swimmer and three-time Olympic champion in freestyle events. She set world records in four freestyle distances and won 19 national titles in the late 1960s.