International Swimming Hall of Fame Postpone Ceremonies

Pictured: Class of 2015

February 2016

INTERNATIONAL
SWIMMING HALL OF FAME

Announces
Ceremonies Postponed – Conflict with Copa America Soccer Tournament
Cited.

FORT
LAUDERDALE – The International Swimming Hall of Fame announced
today that it will postpone its 2016 Induction Weekend, originally
scheduled to take place in Santa Clara, Calif., June 3-5, to a date
still to be determined in either October or November.

The cause of the change is necessitated by a conflict with the Copa
America Soccer tournament, says ISHOF CEO Bruce
Wigo. “Subsequent to our announcement last year,” says
Wigo, “the City of Santa Clara and Levi Stadium were selected by
CONCACAF, the continental governing body for association football
(soccer) in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, to host
the Copa America. We have tried to work things out, but realize
that the impact of these games and the crowds they will attract will just
be too disruptive for our attendees as the events were scheduled to
take place in the same general area as Levi Stadium.”

The ISHOF considered other options in San Jose and other nearby
cities, but as Santa Clara is the new home of the organization, it
remains committed to host its events in the City and now must wait
until after the Olympics. ISHOF expects to make an announcement
confirming a new date once the NFL schedule is published in April –
so the organization won’t face the same situation in the fall.

3
of the Award winners are from the Santa Clara area: Chris Carver,
Jessica Steffens & Bill May.

Budapest
– FINA Gala

Crowning
the stars of 2015

A man and a woman
for each of FINA’s six disciplines have been awarded on January 31st
in Budapest, Hungary, on the occasion of the second edition of the
FINA World Aquatics Gala – “Soirée des Etoiles”, an evening
paying tribute to the great aquatic stars of 2015.

Picture
on L: LtR: Agnes Kovacs, Bruce Wigo, Dr. Andrea Gyarmati, Norbert
Rosza

Picture
on R: LtR: Water polo great Tamas Farago & Dr. Frenc Solomon

New
Feature on ISHOF Webpage

Our webpage is now searchable!!! You will find a
search button at the top of the webpage.

Once selected, you can type in any name, organisation,
product etc. and the search machine will direct you to the right
place on our page. Check
it out here:

From
the Water Polo European Championships in Belgrade

(R) Interview with
Honor Coach Denes Kemeny and Tibor Benedek, 3 x Olympic Champion who
will be part of the Class of 2016, during a press conference in
Budapest, Hungary to recognize the Federation for being the only
nation to medal in both the men’s and women’s events at the European
Water Polo Championships.

Visitors
to the Hall of Fame

LtR upper
row: Melinda Hough Simms, granddaughter of Dick Hough, & her
family;

Marco Birri,
Sports Director of the LEN (European Swimming League) his wife Teresa
and FINA water polo referee Mark Kaganov;

LtR: lower row:
Ken Hamdorf pointing to his name on the US Water Polo Hall of Fame
Trophy;

Susan Silvia
Laing, daughter of 1976 honoree Charles Silvia (R) and life member
Kim Wiezbicki Trudeau examining the Silvia collection of historic
films. The collection includes NCAA, AAU and Olympic films from the
1930s through 1974.

The
US Diving Team Visited ISHOF in preparation for the World Cup in Rio;
February 19-24, 2016.

(L) David Boudia and Steele Johnson. David and Steele
are Men’s 10 meter synchro partners at the World Cup in
Rio; (R) Kristian Ipsen, and ISHOF grant recipient will be
competing at the World Cup in two events: Men’s 3 Meter and Men’s 3
Meter Synchro with Miami grad Sam Dorman.

(L&R) Scott Donie, the silver Medalist on Men’s 10m
in Barcelona 1992 as a member of the FLL Diving Team under Dr.Ron
O’Brien. He is the current coach at NYU and was here in an Advisory
Role to the Athletes & Coaches as a former Olympic
medalist, (L) Scott excited to see his old Olympic teammate Mary
Ellen Clark.

New
Publication (Out In May) To Look Forward To:

BOB
BOWMAN: THE GOLDEN RULES TRANSCEND PHELPS & SWIMMING – A BOOK FOR
ALL SEASONS

By
Craig Lord

Dust down a shelf, make room for a pride-of-place gem
heading to the book storeand tablet this May: The Golden
Rules by Bob Bowman.

Yes, the foreword is written by the biggest ticket he
help punch: Michael Phelps. Yes, it is well-written, the
co-author Charles Butler, entertaining and instructive all at
once. And you can get your hands on the works from May 17. NB: don’t
think ‘swimming book’.

Bob
Duenkel Retired After

40
Years

At
ISHOF

On Saturday,
January 9, 2016 family, friends and co-workers came together to
celebrate Bob’s retirement from ISHOF.

In
The News

Michael Phelps
anchors

‘Curtain of
Distraction’

in Sun Devils’
rout

Watch
it here:

In
Theaters Now:

“Hail,
Caesar! and the Rise & Fall of the Aquamusical”

Vicki
Valosik, a freelance writer from Washington, D,C., who has done
extensive research at ISHOF on the history of synchronized swimming,
reviews the Coen

brother’s newest film, Hail, Caesar!. The
film channels the glamour of theGolden-era
“aquamusical,” made popular by Esther Williams in the 1940s
and early 1950s. In one of the film’s movie-within-a-movie subplots,
Scarlett Johansson plays a sequined Hollywood mermaid starring in an
Esther Williams style aquamusical with daring high dives, spouting
water fountains and aerial shots of synchronized swimmers in
shifting, geometric patterns reminiscent of those directed by
celebrated choreographer Busby Berkeley.

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