The three-year swim club 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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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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: Takenat 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 Sixeen: Home Front
- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948)
- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices
- Afterword
- Author's Notes
- Section Notes
- Three-Year Swim Club Members
- Mahalo Nui Loa/Thank You
- Index
- About the Author.
