Three-Year Swim Club

By Julie Checkoway

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

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.