{"id":496240,"date":"2022-01-29T20:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=496240"},"modified":"2022-01-29T20:43:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T03:43:47","slug":"passages-don-lemieux-coach-of-olympic-champion-samantha-arsenault-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-don-lemieux-coach-of-olympic-champion-samantha-arsenault-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Don Lemieux, Coach of Olympic Champion Samantha Arsenault, 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passages: Don Lemieux, Coach of Olympic Champion Samantha Arsenault, 65<\/strong><\/p>\n

Longtime club and high school coach Don Lemieux<\/strong>, whose pupils include Olympic gold medalist Samantha Arsenault,<\/strong> died on Saturday, Jan. 29. He was 65 years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lemieux was a much-respected coach in Massachusetts. He coached Gardner High School to 16 state championships, including 15 consecutive titles from 1994-2008. He was also the head coach of Greenwood Swimming, where he mentored 16 qualifiers for U.S. Olympic Trials and helped dozens of swimmers get to college<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arsenault, who swam at the University of Michigan and the University of Georgia and won a gold medal in the 800 freestyle relay for the U.S. at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was the best known of the group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arsenault (now Samantha Livingstone) posted a memorial to her longtime coach on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Samantha Arsenault Livingstone (@slivingstn)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n