{"id":462003,"date":"2021-02-12T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=462003"},"modified":"2021-02-12T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T00:16:01","slug":"peter-heatly-joins-ishof-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-to-continue-family-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/peter-heatly-joins-ishof-one-in-a-thousand-campaign-to-continue-family-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Heatly Joins ISHOF’s One in a Thousand Campaign to Continue Family Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Heatly<\/strong>, the son of 2016 ISHOF Honor Contributor by the same name, has joined the One in a Thousand campaign, designed to help the Hall of Fame prosper during the financial difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

“My dad used to go over to the Hall of Fame regularly and officiate diving events and had a great relationship with the people there,” Peter Heatly said. “I never went with him but I had always been interested in sport. Two months after he passed away in 2015, we got the letter that he was going to get into the Hall of Fame. Ironically, that year it would be in Santa Clara. It wasn’t where the Hall of Fame was but it was still great to be there.<\/p>\n

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Peter Heatly next to his father’s honoree panel. Photo Courtesy: Peter Heatly<\/p><\/div>\n

“In 2018, Becky Adlington\u00a0<\/strong>got into the Hall of Fame<\/a> and said to my wife, Sue, ‘why don’t we go over to Fort Lauderdale? Becky Adlington is getting into the Hall of Fame and I know quite a lot of people there and it would be nice to see where dad used to go to. It was a great weekend but the Hall of Fame pool was coming to the end of its lifespan. It was rundown then but you could see how glorious it was, and it’s great to see it being refurbished at the moment.<\/p>\n

“I’m a bit of a fanatic of sport and I have a lot of my dad’s records so I am very enthusiastic and I enjoyed it over there. We decided we would come back to see the new pool when it was finished. We wanted to keep my dad’s legacy alive but also my family and I just enjoyed the place and love what they’re doing with the sport.”<\/p>\n

Heatly would make frequent visits to the Hall of Fame pool to referee diving events at the facility and had developed a friendship with then ISHOF CEO\u00a0Buck Dawson<\/strong>, and had even been on the Hall of Fame selection committee. In 2016, Heatly had been invited to attend the Hall of Fame induction on behalf of his late father in Santa Clara, but had booked his plane ticket before the event had been postponed from June to October.<\/p>\n

Instead of cancelling, he took the trip with his son Gary and brother Robert to meet with then CEO Bruce Wigo\u00a0<\/strong>and attended the Santa Clara International Swim Meet<\/a> and two soccer matches, and again made the trip for the induction in October, with his three siblings, his son, and three nephews.<\/p>\n

“It was our second home at this point,” Heatly joked about Santa Clara, where he was able to make good relationships with the Hall of Fame staff during his visits, but hadn’t been to the legendary Fort Lauderdale facility. So when Adlington had been selected<\/a> two years after, Heatly made the trip over to Florida with his wife Sue to meet with the staff again and see the museum and pool that his father spent so much time at.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t actually know Becky Adlington that well, but we wanted to take the opportunity to go over.<\/p>\n

“I had the pleasure of looking after my dad’s affairs in the later years of his life and I had been asked by Bruce to make a speech in 2016. At the end of my speech I said we had been to a lot of events that we have organized ourselves for dad’s legacy but this was one we didn’t organize, we were invited to come to. It was the best one of all.”<\/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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