Franke Bell, Harvey Humphries, Chuck Warner, Announced as 2022 Inductees into the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame

The American Swimming Coaches Association announced today the following outstanding coaches will make up the 2022 class of inductees into the ASCA Hall of Fame.

Former Head Coach at Johnston Memorial YMCA Franke Bell
University of Georgia Program Coordinator and Former Associate Head Coach Harvey Humphries
Former Head Coach at Rutgers and USA National Team Coach Chuck Warner

The ASCA Hall of Fame recognizes the greatest swimming coaches in the United States. Inductees into the Hall of Fame have produced world-class athletes and winning teams. Many have created innovative coaching methodologies and developed techniques that have improved and elevated the sport of swimming.

The induction ceremony will take place on September 8, 2022, at Westgate Resort in Las Vegas, NV, during the 2022 ASCA World Clinic Awards Banquet.

About the 2022 Inductees:

Franke Bell was one of the first female head swimming coaches in Charlotte, North Carolina in the late 1950s. With no prior coaching experience and limited resources, Coach Bell became a student of the sport, studying the bottom of ships to find new ways of reducing resistance and handcrafting paddles out of plexiglass to help her swimmers. She was one of the first coaches

to incorporate dry land training. Coach Bell turned a group of kids who barely knew one stroke into national and world champions. One of them was multiple gold medal winner and world record holder Melvin Stewart. She turned down an offer to be the first female US coach for the 1972 Olympics in Munich, along with other international coaching offers.

Harvey Humphries served for 38 years as an assistant coach and senior associate head coach for the University of Georgia swimming program. Most recently he moved into the role of program coordinator. Under Humphries since 1989, Georgia boasted 22 NCAA and 57 SEC titles in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle and the 400 individual medley. He has coached a number of Olympians and served as a coach for National Junior Teams, USS select camps, the U.S. National Team Distance Camp, and the U.S. Olympic Festival team. Coach Humphries was recently named by CSCAA as one of the Top 100 Coaches in the Last 100 Years. His colleagues have more than once voted him Georgia Senior Coach of the Year, and he was inducted into the Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame. Humphries is the owner and head coach of the Athens Bulldog Swim Club (ABSC).

Chuck Warner has been a swimming coach for more than 40 years. His teams have won seven national YMCA team championships, and been runners-up for the NCAA Division II championship three times. Warner has been a USA National Team coach three times and Big East Conference coach of the year four times. Coach Warner has written three books detailing the narratives of great swimmers and coaches throughout history. They include “Four Champions, One Gold Medal” about the training and race for the 1500-meter gold medal in the 1976 Olympics, “…And Then They Won Gold: Stepping Stones To Swimming Excellence,” and “Eddie Reese: Coaching Swimming, Teaching Life.”

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