Clyde Swendsen - Class of 1980

Player        Field        Coach

        1918 – 1950 (32 yrs)

Elected to Hall of Fame    1980

Club    Los Angeles Athletic Club, Hollywood A.C.

College    University of California Los Angeles

High School    Blacke – Foxe Military Academy, Hollywood H.S.

Playing Record    1914 – 1920

Participation    US Olympic Team 1920 Antwerp BEL VII (Water Polo)
        US Olympic Team 1920 Antwerp BEL VII (Swimming)
AAU Sr. National Champion 1914 (Diving, Platform & Springboard) Also 8 other National Champion titles

    Coach    US Olympic Team 1932 Los Angeles CA X (bronze)
        US Olympic Team 1936 Berlin GER XI
Four (4) Olympic Divers winning gold medals in the 1924, 28, 32, 36 Olympic Games
Seventeen (17) of his Athletes participated in Olympic Games
Coached LAAC for 14 years (Aquatics)
Competed in Swimming, Diving, & Water Polo and Coached all three
Buster Crabbe & Johnny Weismuller Trained under Clyde

Honors        Elected to the International Swimming Hall of Fame
        Taught about 75,000 youngsters to swim
        Received the Fred Cady Memorial Award 1932, 36

Personal    Married Spouse Ann