{"id":471970,"date":"2021-05-10T21:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=471970"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T04:43:30","slug":"penny-pence-taylor-turns-92-plans-on-attending-u-s-olympic-swim-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/penny-pence-taylor-turns-92-plans-on-attending-u-s-olympic-swim-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Pence Taylor Turns 92, Plans on Attending U.S. Olympic Swim Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"
Penny Pence Taylor<\/strong> continues to be involved with swimming, something that has been such a big part of her life, which now spans 92 years.<\/div>\n
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Taylor, a 1948 U. S. Olympian, will celebrate her 92nd year by attending the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, in June, according to sources. The trials have been a place for national team reunions in the past.<\/div>\n
\nShe turned 92 on Tuesday, May 11.<\/div>\n
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At 19, she raced for the United States in the 200m breaststroke at the London 1948 Olympics<\/strong>, the first Games\u00a0to feature an indoor swimming pool. \u00a0That was just the beginning of a lifetime of dedication to swimming.<\/p>\n

More from last year’s tribute to Penny Pence Taylor:<\/p>\n

At the London Games, Pence competed in the preliminary heats of the 200 breaststroke, and finished with a time of 3:28.1 at a time when half the participants were still swimming what we know as breaststroke today, the other half much faster and racing with a double-arm butterfly recovery.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how that looked at the 1948 U.S. Olympic Trials:<\/strong><\/p>\n