The three-year swim club

Description:

The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.

subjects: Swimming,  Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England),  Swimmers,  Japanese American children,  Biography,  History,  Athletes, united states,  nyt:sports=2015-11-08,  New York Times bestseller,  Olympic Games. fast (OCoLC)fst01408249,  nyt:sports=2016-07-10

Places: Maui,  Hawaii