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Several years ago a broad spectrum of individuals recognized that there was no organization available to promote or celebrate aquatic excellence in the state of Georgia. With no funding the group began to work toward establishing the Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame.
The first few years were spent in trying to find a physical location to call “The Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame”. No place meet the committee’s criterion, so it was decided that the best place for the Hall was on the internet-a location with free access for the general public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame, Inc. was incorporated in May 2010. The Hall’s primary purpose is to recognize and honor past contributions or achievements. The Hall’s board of directors will work towards educating the public about the performance of athletes and the tireless efforts of their coaches. However, we will not limit induction into the Hall solely to athletes and coaches. Individuals or groups will be considered for induction into the Hall under the category of “lifetime achievements”.
Georgia is the first state to establish their Hall of Fame on the internet. It is anticipated many states will follow our lead. Part of our mission will be to share the knowledge we have gleaned from three years of toil-including our missteps along the way. Our mission is and always will be to promote aquatic excellence.
Several years ago, a broad spectrum of individuals recognized that there was no organization available to promote or celebrate aquatic excellence in the State of Georgia. With no funding, the group began to work toward establishing the Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame.
The first few years were spent trying to find a physical location to call “The Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame”. No place met the committee’s criterion, so it was decided that the best place for the Hall was on the internet – a location with free access for the general public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame, Inc. was incorporated in May 2010. The Hall’s primary purpose is to recognize and honor past contributions or achievements in aquatics. The Hall’s board of directors works toward educating the public about the performance of athletes and the tireless efforts of their coaches. However, the board does not limit induction into the Hall solely to athletes and coaches. Individuals or groups will be considered for induction into the Hall under the category of “lifetime achievements”.
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Jane “Miss Janie” Moss was the leading lady of Georgia diving for over three decades. With her husband, Robert “Moose” Moss, she cofounded Moss Farms Diving in Moultrie, Georgia, and served as its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. …
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Clayton Moss is the grandson of “Moose” and “Miss Janie” Moss and continued the Moss family tradition of diving excellence. Diving for the Moss Farms Diving Tigers, he was a member of the United States Junior National Team from 1993 …
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Jeff Vance swam for Atlanta’s Dynamo Swim Club and Dunwoody High School, where he was a four-time All-American. He continued his swimming career at Southern Methodist University where he won six Southwestern Conference individual titles in three different events (200 …
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Kathy McKee is one of the leading age group coaches in the country, having developed hundreds of swimmers who have gone on to compete at the Junior and Senior national levels. Beginning in 1977, Kathy coached for 17 years at …
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Jon Howell is the Head Men’s and Women’s Swimming Coach at Emory University in Atlanta, a position he has held since 1998. Jon has coached 52 individual and 44 relay Division III national champions. His athletes earned 1,173 All American …
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Francine Williamson is Georgia’s most decorated female Masters swimmer. During her career, she has held 50 first place national rankings ranging from 50-meters to 2 miles. Additionally, Francine has been ranked the top female swimmer in the following age groups: 45-49, …
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Lane Bassham Winchester was a diver from Moultrie’s Moss Farms. She was a member of the USA National Diving Team from 1997-2004. During her career at the University of Alabama, Lane won three SEC Diving Championships, one NCAA Championship, and …
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Glynn Perry began his swimming career at a very young age. He set Georgia state records in every age group from 8 and under to senior boys. Glynn was the USA Junior National Champion in both the 400 Individual Medley …
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Jason Turcotte was the Head Coach of Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta. Jason swam competitively; however, he preferred to coach swimmers rather than compete. During his career, Jason coached at Stanford University, the Lake Erie Silver Dolphins, and the Naperville …
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William Artley was a founding member of the Savannah Swim Team. Will was Georgia’s High School Swimmer of the Year in 1969. In 1972, Will was a finalist in the USA Olympic Trials. While attending the University of Florida, Will …
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Frederick “Fred” R. Lanoue was the Head Swimming Coach at Georgia Tech for 27 years. Prior to coaching, Lanoue attended Springfield College in Massachusetts where he was a diver. He completed his bachelor’s degree in 1932 and his master’s degree …
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Sabir Muhammad was the first African-American to medal in swimming at an international competition and is one of the most decorated African-American swimmers. At the 2000 Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece, Sabir won silver and bronze in the …
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Elizabeth Hill Newman is an Atlanta-native who swam for Dynamo Swim Club and later the University of Georgia, in the mid-2000s. Newman earned a gold medal at the 2003 Pan-American Games in the 400 freestyle while still in high school, …
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Paige Wilson Penze is an Athens, GA native who grew up swimming for Athens Bulldog Swim Club before going on to swim for the University of Georgia in the early 1990’s. At the age of 17, Penze became the first …
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Dan Laak has been the Head Diving Coach at the University of Georgia for over 30 years. As a student, Laak was a diver at University of Wisconsin – La Crosse where he earned multiple All-American and All-American Honorable Mentions. …
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Robert “Moose” Moss was a renowned diving coach from Colquitt County, Georgia. As a collegiate football player for Georgia Southern University, decorated World War II combat pilot, and farmer, Moss was never a diver but came to admire the sport …
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Robert “Pete” Higgins has been coaching swimming at Westminster High School since 1960. Higgins was inducted into the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association of America Hall of Fame in 2016. He has also been selected as the National High School …
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Steve Lundquist is a 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m breaststroke and 4x100m medley relay and the first man to break two minutes in the 200y breaststroke. A Georgia native, Lundquist graduated from Jonesboro High School where he went …
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Sheila Taormina is first female athlete to qualify for the Olympics in three different sports: swimming, triathlon, and modern pentathlon. Taormina grew up swimming and represented the University of Georgia, captaining the team in 1991. It wasn’t until after Taormina …
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Doug Gjertsen is a two-time Olympian who swam for SwimAtlanta and the University of Texas Longhorns. Gjertsen began swimming in Georgia in 1976 and was one of the first families to join Swim Atlanta in 1977, the year of its …
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Jennifer (Chandler) Stevenson was the 3-meter springboard diving gold medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal at the age of 17. An Alabama native, Chandler began swimming with the Mountain Brook Swim Club coached by Carlos de Cubas. At …
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Mary Ellen (Blanchard) Warta was an American and U.S. Open Record holder who swam for Norcross High School, Dynamo Swim Club, and Stanford. As a sophomore in high school, Blanchard broke the American and U.S. Open Record in the 200y …
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Jack Bauerle is the head coach of the University of Georgia Men’s and Women’s Swimming Team. Bauerle’s connection with UGA first began as a student-athlete in 1971. After assistant coaching for a few years, he became the head coach of …
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James Herbert “Herb” McAuley coached the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for 40 years, first as an assistant coach to Fred Lanoue, then as head coach. McAuley first swam for Georgia Tech as a student-athlete in 1942 while taking a short …
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– 5 SEC Championship Diving Title
– Coached 31 High School All-American
– Coached 2 USA Diving National Champions
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Curtis Lovejoy is a multi-sport Paralympian (swimming and fencing) who has participated in five Paralympic Games from 1996-2012. Lovejoy began swimming at age 29 after a car accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. After just a year and …
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David Larson is a 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Originally from Jesup, Georgia, Larson swam for Bolles in Jacksonville, Florida until 1977. He went on to swim for the University of Florida where he earned two …
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Kristy Kowal represented Team USA in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia where she earned a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke. As a breaststroke specialist, Kowal was also the first American woman to break one minute in the …
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Courtney (Shealy) Hart is currently the head coach of the Georgia Tech Men’s and Women’s Swimming Team. Hart is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist who represented Team USA at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. She medaled in the …
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Billy Heinz is a former diver who competed for Westminster Schools and Princeton. The height of Heinz’s diving career was while he attended Princeton. In 1973, Heinz was one of only three divers in the country to place in the …
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Chris Davis is the founder, owner and head coach of SwimAtlanta. Prior to coaching, Davis swam for the Decatur DeKalb YMCA and competed collegiately for Birmingham Southern University. Davis founded SwimAtlanta in 1977. SwimAtlanta has since become one of the …
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Eric Wunderlich is an Olympian who grew up swimming for Riverwood High School, and briefly, Dynamo Swim Club. Wunderlich went on to swim for the University of Michigan where was the the NCAA Champion in the 200y breaststroke in 1993. …
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Maritza “Ritz” Correia McClendon is a 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the 4x100m freestyle relay. She was the first woman of color to make an Olympic swimming team for the United States and medal. Ritz swam for the University of …
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Angel (Myers) Martino is a two-time Olympian who grew up swimming in Americus, Georgia. She swam for Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Martino participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, of which she was …
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Hal Stolz won multiple SEC Championship titles for the University of Georgia from 1953-1956. Stolz was the SEC men’s champion in the 3x100y medley relay, which is no longer an SEC event. In 1955 and 1956, Stolz won SEC titles …
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Kathleen Hersey is a two-time Olympian who attended Marist High School and swam for SwimAtlanta. While at Marist, Kathleen broke the National High School Record in both the 100y butterfly and the 200y individual medley. Kathleen continued winning titles at …
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Carlos Enrique DeCubas began his career as the Olympic swimming and diving coach in Cuba. Desiring to leave Cuba after Castro gained control, DeCubas escaped with his family to the United States. Although his initial job in America was a …
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Carlton Bruner is an Olympian who grew up swimming with Dynamo Swim Club. From 1991-1994, Bruner swam for the University of Florida. While a collegiate swimmer, Bruner won two SEC championship titles in distance freestyle events. He was a five-time …
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Donna (Humphrey) Quinn was an outstanding high school swimmer for Westminster during the 1960’s. A backstroke specialist, Quinn participated in the Senior National Championships and the 1968 Olympic Trials. Quinn was coached by fellow Georgia Aquatic Hall of Famer, Pete …
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Kara Lynn Joyce is a three-time Olympian who swam for the University of Georgia. In high school, Joyce broke five National High School Records in freestyle events. Joyce began swimming for UGA in 2004. While with the Bulldogs, Joyce was …
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