{"id":221440,"date":"2016-09-21T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=221440"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:39:16","slug":"lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Maddie Strasen, Swimming World College Intern<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelley Allen<\/strong> never stood still, sprinting up and down the pool deck to urge on his swimmers in each race. In fact, the popular club coach in Florida\u2019s Tampa-St. Petersburg area proved he could not even sit still. Once, after a leg condition forced him to remain seated during a stretch of meets, Allen found a way around it \u2013 hauling a rolling office chair onto the deck so he could sit and wheel himself up and down the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend, <strong>Imari Shibata<\/strong> (both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/publicsafety\/crime\/son-held-in-murder-of-mom-boyfriend-at-oldsmar-home\/1258799\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Benjamin Bishop<\/strong><\/a>, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis spirit will never die,\u201d said Tampa Bay Aquatics coach <strong>Alex Richardson<\/strong>, who took over the program just weeks after Bishop, who had a history of psychological issues, burst into his mother\u2019s room holding a sawed-off shotgun and senselessly took two lives. \u201cEveryone involved in the program will always hold up the values, lessons and great inspiration Coach Kelley gave this team for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelley never spoke a bad word to a swimmer, ever,\u201d said <strong>Susan Curnette<\/strong>, another TBAY coach who was Allen\u2019s colleague for several years. \u201cEven if you didn\u2019t have a good swim, he made each child feel like he or she was the best swimmer in the pool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I swam for Coach Kelley all through middle school, and had just started my freshman year of high school when he was killed in October of 2012. It was a devastating blow, to say the least, for me and all of my club teammates. How do you handle the loss of a coach, a mentor and a great role model?<\/p>\n<p>I wondered, for a while, whether I wanted to continue club swimming. There was already the adjustment to an International Baccalaureate high school and a high school swim team. It was a lot for everyone on the team to overcome.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_221425\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221425\" data-attachment-id=\"221425\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sacrifice-and-reward-a-swimmers-mental-battle\/maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"5184,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 60D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1412794555&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Eric Ryan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-221425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"maddie-strasen-robinson-by-eric-ryan\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-221425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Eric Ryan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One thing that helped me see things more clearly was focusing on some of the things Coach Kelley always taught us \u2013 and certainly would have been emphasizing in a tough time. One of his big ones was perseverance. No matter how horribly a swim meet or a practice or a day might have been going, Coach Kelley would always be there clapping, smiling and telling us to think positive thoughts and get through it.<\/p>\n<p>Every dark cloud had a silver lining in Coach Kelley\u2019s book. Every \u201cbad\u201d finish was an opportunity to learn and do better. Every obstacle was a reason to work hard and focus on doing the right things. It was not only what he taught, but how he lived.<\/p>\n<p>So in the darkest time for all of us, it became very clear to me that Coach Kelley would not have listed \u201cgiving up\u201d as an option. Quite the opposite! He would have urged us to remember all the lessons he taught us and all the examples he showed us about battling through the hard times and coming out stronger for it.<\/p>\n<p>There was truly no replacing Coach Kelley in our swim program, but when a permanent replacement did come aboard as coach the following spring, he told us about his plan for an intense summer program that would require long hours, double sessions in the pool and lots of dry-land work out of the pool. In other words, it was going to require great dedication at a time when a lot of students were enjoying leisurely summer vacations.<\/p>\n<p>With the spirit of Coach Kelley\u2019s lessons about perseverance at the top of my thoughts, I overcame my initial reservations about this new coach and these new workouts and decided to throw myself into the program. It\u2019s what Coach Kelley would want \u2013 not because it would do anything for him, but because it would make me a better swimmer and more importantly, a better person.<\/p>\n<p>I can now point to that summer as a turning point in my swimming career. It was a time when I saw tremendous progress toward many of my goals in the pool, and finding the strength to get through it taught me a lot about myself outside the pool, too. I can almost see Coach Kelley sprinting down the pool deck, cheering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maddie Strasen, Swimming World College Intern Kelley Allen never stood still, sprinting up and down the pool deck to urge on his swimmers in each race. In fact, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":221441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Swimming World\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Maddie Strasen\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@swimmingworld\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maddie Strasen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maddie Strasen\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/87a39650851729e28d044370ee291b08\"},\"headline\":\"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\"},\"wordCount\":752,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Commentary\",\"USA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\",\"name\":\"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00\",\"description\":\"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg\",\"width\":960,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Photo Courtesy: Jean Strasen\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"description\":\"The Global Leader in Aquatic News\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Swimming World\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg\",\"width\":1799,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Swimming World\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/87a39650851729e28d044370ee291b08\",\"name\":\"Maddie Strasen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fc8c2a4c1ad0ff80c1c4a823c2c2955?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fc8c2a4c1ad0ff80c1c4a823c2c2955?s=96&d=blank&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Maddie Strasen\"},\"description\":\"Maddie Strasen, originally from Tampa, Florida, is a freshman at the University of Vermont where she is double majoring in English and Political Science. She is also a breaststroker and distance freestyler for their Division I program.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/maddie-strasen\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On","description":"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On","og_description":"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/","og_site_name":"Swimming World","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","article_published_time":"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":960,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Maddie Strasen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@swimmingworld","twitter_site":"@swimmingworld","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Maddie Strasen","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/"},"author":{"name":"Maddie Strasen","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/87a39650851729e28d044370ee291b08"},"headline":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On","datePublished":"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/"},"wordCount":752,"commentCount":3,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","articleSection":["Commentary","USA"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/","name":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","datePublished":"2016-09-21T16:00:50+00:00","dateModified":"2016-09-20T15:39:16+00:00","description":"Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend,\u00a0Imari Shibata\u00a0(both 49), were murdered by Shibata\u2019s 18-year-old son,\u00a0Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen\u2019s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","width":960,"height":720,"caption":"Photo Courtesy: Jean Strasen"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lessons-of-murdered-swim-coach-kelley-allen-live-on\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lessons of Murdered Swim Coach, Kelley Allen, Live On"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","name":"Swimming World","description":"The Global Leader in Aquatic News","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Swimming World","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SWorld_BLKBKG-1.jpg","width":1799,"height":900,"caption":"Swimming World"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwimmingWorld","https:\/\/x.com\/swimmingworld","https:\/\/instagram.com\/swimmingworldmag\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SwimmingWorldSPI"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/87a39650851729e28d044370ee291b08","name":"Maddie Strasen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fc8c2a4c1ad0ff80c1c4a823c2c2955?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4fc8c2a4c1ad0ff80c1c4a823c2c2955?s=96&d=blank&r=pg","caption":"Maddie Strasen"},"description":"Maddie Strasen, originally from Tampa, Florida, is a freshman at the University of Vermont where she is double majoring in English and Political Science. She is also a breaststroker and distance freestyler for their Division I program.","url":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/author\/maddie-strasen\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"Photo Courtesy: Jean Strasen","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/flex-maddie-strasen-by-jean-strasen-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p56Jja-VBC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}