{"id":451106,"date":"2020-10-29T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=451106"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:16:03","slug":"tom-boak-joins-ishofs-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-the-hall-of-fame-is-incredibly-valuable-to-our-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/tom-boak-joins-ishofs-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-the-hall-of-fame-is-incredibly-valuable-to-our-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Boak Joins ISHOF’s One in a Thousand Campaign, “The Hall of Fame is Incredibly Valuable to Our Sport”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time Masters swimming contributor\u00a0Tom Boak<\/strong>, who has served as Master of Ceremonies at the last 11 Masters Hall of Fame inductions, has recently joined the growing list of members of the “One in a Thousand Campaign,” designed to help the International Swimming Hall of Fame grow and prosper during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

“It seems to me like the Hall of Fame is incredibly valuable to our sport in that it is the only repository of our history,” Tom Boak said. “Not just masters swimming but all aquatics. It’s the only place that exists and my interest in the Hall and my reason for supporting is because I see this incredible value to aquatics and it obviously needs all the support it can get.”<\/p>\n

Boak has been Master of Ceremonies at the MISHOF Induction since 2008, and was also inducted as a Masters Contributor in 2016.<\/p>\n

“My initial involvement was as the Master of Ceremonies. It’s really easy to get pumped up about the Hall when you do that. Not only did I induct a number of my friends from swimming but also my wife<\/a> and then I was inducted as well. Those events were all very meaningful. I got to induct a number of guys I swam against directly.<\/p>\n

“That was a great experience and then ultimately I was called by Brent Rutemiller\u00a0<\/strong>to serve on the Board of Directors and I’ve served on the Board for three years. That’s opened up another experience with the Hall of Fame and of course now one of the things going on is the renovation of the swimming pools and hopefully the renovation of the existing buildings so I’ve been involved in all of that and I’ve been serving as Treasurer so I’ve gotten exposed to the financial side of things with the Hall which has been on rocky ground for quite some time.”<\/p>\n

Join the One in a Thousand Club by helping ISHOF on a monthly or one-time basis.<\/p>\n

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