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Rusty Owens<\/strong>, an International Swimming Hall of Fame member who coached for more than 60 years and worked with two Olympians, died Sunday at age 84.<\/p>\n

Owens carved out a legendary career in his native central Pennsylvania, where he worked with Olympians Anita Nall <\/strong>(who won silver and bronze in breaststroke plus medley relay gold in Barcelona in 1992) and Jeremy Linn<\/strong> (winner of silver in the 100 breast and gold in the medley relay in Atlanta in 1996). Owens was inducted to the International swimming Hall of Fame in 2010 as the recipient of the G. Harold Martin Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cause of death was listed as<\/a> complications due to dementia.<\/p>\n

Owens started his sporting life as a football player at John Harris High School and Lebanon Valley. But after enlisting in the Marines in 1953, he became a swimming instructor, a decision that would alter the course of his life. He returned to Harrisburg in 1958 to start a string of coaching jobs, first at the local YMCA.<\/p>\n

Owens coached at Hershey Aquatic Club as well as Harrisburg Swim Club, plus stops at Harrisburg High School, Elizabethtown College and Lebanon Valley College. He was equally devoted to tutoring swimmers on the country club scene as he was in bringing learn-to-swim clinics to inner-city pools. Into his 80s, he was still coaching<\/a> at the Colonial Golf and Tennis Club and the Lower Paxton Aquatic Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t so much about creating Olympic swimmers that he could rack up on his own, he was about seeing you achieve greatness and applying that greatness to the rest of your life,\u201d Rusty Owens\u2019 son, Dr. R. Scott Owens,<\/strong> told PennLive.com. \u201cI think his legacy, it was more of a teacher and a molder of individuals. He allowed each individual to pursue their own greatness and helping them achieve that, and that\u2019s what he did, and most people who he coached walked away feeling better about themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"