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That's funny. I swam for George Haines from 1950 into 1958 (my sr. year in hs). I spent three and a tad years swimming for my hs swimming team, then I discovered girls... and got kicked off swim team for dreaming up excuses not to swim any more :-)

Enough water to swim in....imagine that.
Kinda rare when I was a kid...

California was like that - you could not graduate from HS without passing the state's swimming test, so there were pools for most school districts...and lakes filled with the stuff...