The three-year swim club [LP] the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory

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 cham...

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Main Author: Checkoway, Julie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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100 1 |a Checkoway, Julie,  |e author. 
245 1 4 |a The three-year swim club [LP] :  |b the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory /  |c Julie Checkoway. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b Grand Central Publishing,  |c 2015. 
300 |a viii, 657 pages (large print), 16 unumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations ;  |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-629). 
505 0 |a Preface -- Part One: Such Stuff as Dreams (1932-1937) -- Chapter One: To Race with Giants -- Chapter Two: Hardhead -- Chapter Three: A Wide Awakening -- Chapter Four: The Pursuit of Greater Ventures -- Part Two: On Such a Sea (1938) -- Chapter Five: An Exercise of Will -- Chapter Six: Owing to the Protracted Hostilities -- Chapter Seven: Keeping 1940 in Mind All the Time -- Part Three: Taken at the Flood (1939) -- Chapter Eight: Down Under -- Chapter Nine: Youths of the Sea -- Chapter Ten: The Coup -- Part Four: A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1940-1941) -- Chapter Eleven: A Season of Flame -- Chapter Twelve: Santa Barbara -- Chapter Thirteen: Mr. Smith Comes to Maui -- Chapter Fourteen: Blitzkrieg-- Part Five: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight (Nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948) -- Chapter Fifteen: Go for Broke -- Chapter Sixteen: Home Front -- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948) -- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices. 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Japanese American children  |z Hawaii  |z Maui. 
650 0 |a Swimming  |z Hawaii  |z Maui  |x History. 
650 0 |a Swimmers  |z Hawaii  |z Maui  |v Biography. 
611 2 0 |a Olympic Games  |n (14th :  |d 1948 :  |c London, England) 
655 7 |a Large print books.  |2 lcgft 
690 0 |a Oldham, Helen G. tribute. 
690 0 |a Tobey, Josh, In Memory. 
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