{"id":439057,"date":"2020-07-08T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=439057"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:27:39","slug":"the-only-one-jim-gamble-tells-his-poignant-story-of-resilience-growing-up-black-in-livingston-nj-in-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-only-one-jim-gamble-tells-his-poignant-story-of-resilience-growing-up-black-in-livingston-nj-in-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only One: Jim Gamble Tells His Poignant Story Of Resilience Growing Up Black in Livingston, NJ, in 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Commentary from Jim Gamble, swimmer and then coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers, on his experience of growing up in swimming as “the only one”, in other words, the only black kid on the blocks – and why he says “I have no idea what my life would be like if it wasn’t for swimming.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Coach Mark Rauterkus<\/strong> and colleagues have been collating stories to share with city school students via the Swim Coaches Idea Exchange Group on Facebook<\/strong>, writes Craig Lord. Jim Gamble<\/strong> tells his own moving story below and that requires no comment from this editor beyond these two thoughts:<\/em><\/p>\n