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