Remember who/when... Nancy Garapick?

"SwimJim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia for the first time last week, and I swam
in a very nice downtown pool for two workouts. While swimming and
free-associating, I remembered that Nancy Garapick was from Halifax. I
wondered if she had swum in this pool (I've confirmed that she did).

Many many metres.

She started at the YWCA pool with the Otters, coached by the late Johanna
Maessen.

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This made me wonder more:

-- Where is she now?

I think she's teaching school out in western canada.

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-- Is there a Nancy Garapick "shrine" anywhere? She was, after all,
picked as the top Nova Scotian female athlete of the century. There
wasn't anything
about her at the pool!

There used to be, when the Trojans swam exclusively out of Centennial Pool,
and had a trophy case there. Some of those items have since been moved to
the Dalhousie University sports complex; Nan's picture and some
accomplishments are in more than one location there. She still holds some
University records, as well as a pair of 13&14 NAG's and more than 30
Provincial records.

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-- Why is she not in the International Swimming Hall of Fame?

The girls that beat her in Montreal were not caught, and have not lost their
standing; perhaps for the ISHOF people in Florida form rather than substance
is more important.

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She was
a world-record holder,

The youngest except for Karen Muir, at the time.

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and would have been a double gold medalist in
the 1976
Olympics had it not been for the East German women drug cheats. This
is an oversight.

jtaylor said:

"SwimJim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia for the first time last week, and I swam
in a very nice downtown pool for two workouts. While swimming and
free-associating, I remembered that Nancy Garapick was from Halifax. I
wondered if she had swum in this pool (I've confirmed that she did).

Many many metres.

She started at the YWCA pool with the Otters, coached by the late Johanna
Maessen.

Quoted message said:

This made me wonder more:

-- Where is she now?

I think she's teaching school out in western canada.

Quoted message said:

-- Is there a Nancy Garapick "shrine" anywhere? She was, after all,
picked as the top Nova Scotian female athlete of the century. There
wasn't anything
about her at the pool!

There used to be, when the Trojans swam exclusively out of Centennial Pool,
and had a trophy case there. Some of those items have since been moved to
the Dalhousie University sports complex; Nan's picture and some
accomplishments are in more than one location there. She still holds some
University records, as well as a pair of 13&14 NAG's and more than 30
Provincial records.

Quoted message said:

-- Why is she not in the International Swimming Hall of Fame?

The girls that beat her in Montreal were not caught, and have not lost their
standing; perhaps for the ISHOF people in Florida form rather than substance
is more important.

Quoted message said:

She was
a world-record holder,

The youngest except for Karen Muir, at the time.

Quoted message said:

and would have been a double gold medalist in
the 1976
Olympics had it not been for the East German women drug cheats. This
is an oversight.

Thanks for the information. I went by Dalhousie but didn't have a
chance to explore the campus.

I expect that she was nominated to ISHOF, but didn't have the necessary
credentials to get in. Had she been rightfully awarded the two 1976
gold medals, I think she'd be a lock to get in. Phil Whitten was at
one time lobbying for a complete expunging of all of the East German
medals and records (particularly for any of the athletes that were
found documented in the captured doping records), and a proper
rewriting of swimming history. If that ever happens, Nancy should be
in the ISHOF.

Jim Acker

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