{"id":345588,"date":"2019-01-06T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=345588"},"modified":"2019-01-06T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:23:23","slug":"tribute-to-jim-wood-a-life-of-offering-a-fork-in-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tribute-to-jim-wood-a-life-of-offering-a-fork-in-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to Jim Wood: A Life of Offering A Fork in The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Commentary by Chuck Warner<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-size:0\" class=\"has-drop-cap\">If we are fortunate in our personal lives, we meet an individual or two that offer a fork in the road to our principle opportunities and purpose. In conducting the sport of swimming \u201cpath creators\u201d are also rare.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-coach-james-jim-martin-wood-leaves-unparalleled-legacy-to-aquatic-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> Jim Wood<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-coach-james-jim-martin-wood-leaves-unparalleled-legacy-to-aquatic-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> <\/a>offered a fork in the road to many people personally and to all of those involved in competitive swimming. <\/p><p>The instincts of this fearless, big-thinking leader, were molded at Union Catholic High School in New Jersey where Jim studied, ran track and served on the student council. His junior year he and his friends invited and secured the rock band \u201cCream\u201d (with leader and rock legend <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>) to perform at the fund raiser for their tiny student body. His senior year they went a step further and brought the rock hall of fame group <strong>\u201cThe Who\u201d <\/strong>to their school. Jim Wood was never shy around big ideas.<\/p><p>His employment was the casualty of a change in athletic\ndirectors, while he was a very young head coach at the University of North\nCarolina completing graduate school. He retreated to his family home in New\nJersey and set a course to own his future. He became sole owner of the Berkeley\nAquatic Club (BAC), and purchased his family home where he lived to his\npassing. <\/p><p>For many years, he served then \u201cUS Swimming\u201d as the chairman of the Olympic International Operations Committee. Tirelessly, he prepared a process and procedure for American international teams to compete successfully around the world with nothing personal to gain from it except to fulfill his sense of service&#8211;a demand he has made on everyone who works for him. <\/p><p>When Jim decided to run for USA Swimming president one\nnational supporter said, \u201cWe have the right man, but the wrong candidate.\u201d Jim\nwas never a politically minded candidate, just a person of the highest\nintegrity and intelligence willing to let the USA Swimming membership vote for\nhim or not, based upon his record of service, his character and his vision for\nthe organization. Standing on that platform he was elected the first coach\npresident of USA Swimming. Then re-elected. Then elected president of US\nAquatic Sports. Then re-elected. <\/p><p>Coach Wood showed us a path in everything from the conduct\nof a meeting, to a four-year plan, that was informed from our past and created\nmore opportunity for our future.<\/p><p>When disagreements arose, Jim\u2019s only sword to fight the\nbattle of what he believed was the right course (which almost always proved to\nbe right for you and I and the sport of swimming) was preparation, principal\nand the brilliance with which he could convey his point. One example, was his\nrole in successfully stopping the \u201cbig suits\u201d from stealing the effect of\nout-preparing the opposition from swimmers around the world. Closer to home, when\nRutgers University decided to drop men\u2019s swimming and five other sports, the\ncoalition of the affected sports asked Jim to be their spokesman in a meeting\nwith the university athletic director and representatives of the Rutgers Board\nof Trustees. When the university noted that there was a shortfall of $35,000 in\nour plan to self-finance men\u2019s swimming, Jim offered to pay the sum annually\nfrom his own pocket to continue to offer the opportunity to New Jersey\u2019s boys\nto swim at their state university. <\/p><p>Never married, Jim\u2019s children were his swimmers. For nearly\nhis entire career he coached his morning practice, then his senior group from\n3-6 pm and another group of the best age-groupers until 8 pm. In the summer, 60\nswimmers would greet him most mornings at 6 am to giggle, update their lives\nfrom 10-12 hours before and work. The only light glistening brighter than the\nsunrise sparkling on the water was the smile on his face. He loved the girls,\nand hugged them judicially and appropriately. As most American swim teams saw\nthe decrease in boys over the decades, not so at BAC. His guys found a role\nmodel to look up to outside the home. Each year Jim designated a night for the\nsenior boys to get together for beans and steak where they could joke and just\nbe boys. Nothing speaks more fondly about his coaching, than the annual Thanksgiving\npractices where more than 100 alums and college students would visit the team\nand their coach. <\/p><p>If you were Jim Wood\u2019s friend, you were most fortunate. He loved his Yankees, Giants and could pick up a golf club whenever he liked and play like a seasoned amateur. A few years ago, his New Year\u2019s Day wasn\u2019t spent on any of those activities, but instead he spent the entire day visiting with his friend <strong>Chuck Wielgus<\/strong>, ailing from cancer in a New York hospital. <\/p><p>There were swim coaches before me and after me that looked to Jim for help when their career took a tough turn. Five years ago, he and I formed a business partnership. A former partner in owning the Metro Swim Shop, <strong>Greg Eggert<\/strong> advised me, \u201cJim has a better business sense than any of us.\u201d There was an element of risk to a major deal I wanted to make and Jim deliberated carefully and analyzed it at length. When we came to our own crossroads to make a commitment we simultaneously agreed that \u201cwe wanted to do something for our community that would outlive our lifetime.\u201d (He has done that many times with other partnerships, and in particular, creating the amazing Berkeley Center of Excellence in his home town of New Providence, NJ). When Jim agreed to move forward, I said to him, \u201cthanks a million.\u201d He said carefully to me, \u201cno, thanks\u2026\u201d and reiterated the exact number of dollars that he had shared a commitment to. <\/p><p>In August of 2018, Jim finally visited Cuba, a bucket list\nitem for him. His health had been suffering for some time, but no one told Jim Wood\nhow to live his life.&nbsp; Off he went by\nhimself and we texted and emailed back and forth during the trip. When they\ndocked in Havana a surprise awaited him. He shuffled into the town square and\nheard his name being called by someone with a Cuban accent, \u201cCoach Wood! Coach\nWood!!\u201d Much to his surprise a boxing coach he had met and helped at a recent\nOlympics, recognized him. The coach provided Jim a two-hour private tour of\nHavana and his club; quite simply a small return on the investment Jim had made\ninto the world of sport. <\/p><p>When it came to the governance of swimming and it\u2019s effect\non us all \u201cThe Wood Edict\u201d has been: <em>if\nwe act in the best interest of the sport around the world, we will also best affect\nthe sport in the United States. <\/em>So at times he has been sent on his own\nfrom the USA to the powers there are internationally to talk sense about suits,\nabout drug testing and other critical topics. With him he packed only his sword\n(preparation, principal, brilliance) to argue for whatever he believed was\nright. Through his efforts, we have been offered a fork in the road for our\nsport, just as he has done for friends like me. Most importantly, he has\noffered a model to his beloved swimmers of how to choose a life of purpose and\nservice. <\/p><p>Where is the next person with the metal of Jim Wood? Is she\nor he out there now, waiting to decide whether to serve? If so, please pick up\nyour sword and step forward. We need you. <\/p><p>Eight years ago, Jim, and his swim school director <strong>Towney Brewster<\/strong>, introduced me to a young woman named <strong>Lisa Rivera<\/strong>, who has become my right-hand person in developing a key venture for our community, the Little Dolphin Swim Academy. As night dropped the curtain on New Year\u2019s Eve 2018, Jim fought a losing battle to stay in this life. A the very same time Lisa bore <strong>Kaitlin Iris Rivera<\/strong> into the world and the year 2019 began. Is it you, Kaitlin, that will open forks in the road to others? <\/p><p>As the poet said, \u201cHe took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.\u201d <\/p><p>Thanks for my fork Jim. 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