{"id":458827,"date":"2021-01-04T13:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=458827"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T20:11:32","slug":"david-marsh-joins-ishofs-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-the-people-who-are-most-engaged-in-our-sport-need-to-be-engaged-in-supporting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/david-marsh-joins-ishofs-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-the-people-who-are-most-engaged-in-our-sport-need-to-be-engaged-in-supporting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"David Marsh Joins ISHOF’s One in a Thousand Campaign, “The People Who Are Most Engaged in Our Sport Need to Be Engaged in Supporting It”"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Swimming Olympic coach\u00a0David Marsh\u00a0<\/strong>joined the International Swimming Hall of Fame\u2019s One in a Thousand campaign, designed to help the hall prosper during the difficult financial times of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

“The Hall of Fame is the one place where, not just records, but memories are kept for our sport,” David Marsh said. “I think anything I can do to help support the memories and recognition that are so well deserved and are not often recognized is something that I would hope I can do. It is with great hope with the new building of Fort Lauderdale and with the growth of our sport that has been trending well even during these COVID times. I would say even now with the need for our sport, it is as safe as we can get<\/a>, and it is crucial to young kids in understanding goal setting and delayed gratification.<\/p>\n

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David Marsh with Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace. Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

“I think when it comes to all aquatic sports, these are all sports nobody is going to get excellent if they don’t work very hard at it. You don’t get into the hall of fame without a lot of hard work, mistakes, adjustments and ultimately persistence. That universally needs to be honored and to represent the aquatic sports and aquatics community. We as the people who are most engaged in the sport also need to be engaged in supporting it.<\/p>\n

“I was down in Fort Lauderdale for a training camp with the crew leading up to the 2012 Olympics and saw the profound history of African Americans from the start of it. It was awesome that they had that as one of the feature presentations.”<\/p>\n

This hits home for David Marsh, who grew up less than an hour from the museum.<\/p>\n

“There’s been a lot of epic races at that facility. I grew up in Miami so I made my first junior national cut in the Fort Lauderdale pool. I have great memories with\u00a0Jack Nelson<\/strong>,\u00a0Andy Coan<\/strong> and people like that that put Fort Lauderdale on the map in terms of swimming.<\/p>\n

“It was always amazing to stay in hotels within walking distance of the beach and go swim out in the ocean. I remember one time one of my swimmers in between sessions convinced me to go out swimming with him in the ocean and he knew exactly where a reef was. He actually went down and reached to grab the tail of a nurse shark and was spinning it around and that was really cool. I was like, ‘don’t do that again!’ but there are so many memories of Fort Lauderdale and that facility.<\/p>\n

“The revitalization of one of true international hubs of our sport is great news and hopefully gives everybody a lot of enthusiasm for the full breath of our sport – from the beginning to the end.”<\/p>\n

David Marsh was set to be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame<\/a> this year as an honor coach.<\/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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