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Roque will assume an immediate role with FINIS working with strategic team dealers, swim coaches and swimmers engaging in strategic product and business development issues.  Roque will begin his full-time position at FINIS following the completion of the United States Masters Swimming competition in Hawaii, at which he will be competing.<\/p>\n<p>Roque Santos, significant accomplishments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Swam for U.C. Berkeley; Team Captain in 1989 and 1990<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 7 time NCAA All-American<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Set school records in the 100 (still standing) and 200 yard Breaststroke<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Achieved world rankings from 1989 \u2013 1995, setting American and Olympic Trials records<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Member of the 1992 Olympic Team (200 breaststroke)  <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Currently Roque is one of the most prized swimmers in Masters swimming:<\/p>\n<p>. Has broke 6 World Records (2 still standing)<\/p>\n<p>. Won 24 National Titles<\/p>\n<p>. Ranked in the USMS Top 10 in every event swum during the past 5 years  <\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Outside of the pool, Roque was as a recent member of the Olympic International Operation Committee, Planning Committee and Athlete Executive Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finis Inc., manufacturer of innovative products for swimming (Swimmer\u2019s Snorkel, monofins\u2026) and exclusive North American Distributor for Lane 4 swim goggles, is excited to announce the hiring of its newest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zzzzzzzzz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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