{"id":527586,"date":"2023-04-17T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=527586"},"modified":"2023-04-17T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:46:51","slug":"passages-robert-trotman-diversity-advocate-and-club-founder-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-robert-trotman-diversity-advocate-and-club-founder-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Robert Trotman, Diversity Advocate and Club Founder, 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passages: Robert Trotman, Diversity Advocate and Club Founder, 82<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Trotman<\/strong>, who spent six decades coaching swimming and extending swimming opportunities to historically underserved communities, died on March 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/powellfh.com\/tribute\/details\/2860\/Robert-Trotman\/obituary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He was 82 years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trotman founded Nu-Finmen Swim Team in 1959, with <strong>Charles Simmons,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nu-finmen.com\/about-nfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with the aim of<\/a>, \u201cprovid(ing) opportunities for children who might not otherwise have the opportunity to swim.\u201d From the original location in Brooklyn, it expanded into Nassau County and Newark and Jersey City. The team is currently based in Cambria Heights, Queens. It has developed swimmers who would become all-state and NCAA All-American swimmers as well as numerous coaches. Trotman\u2019s family estimates that more than 2,000 of his student-athletes graduated from college.<\/p>\n<p>Both of his children, <strong>Jennifer<\/strong> and <strong>Todd,<\/strong> swam at William Paterson University. Jennifer is a swim coach, including at York College in Queens, where Robert was <a href=\"https:\/\/yorkathletics.com\/news\/2023\/3\/25\/mens-swimming-yorkcardinals-mourns-passing-of-coach-robert-trotman.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her assistant for 14 years<\/a>. Todd is a swim official. Also among his pupils is <strong>Paulana Lamonier,<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/black-people-will-swim-an-organization-on-the-rise-making-a-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founder of Black People Will Swim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trotman grew up in Harlem and swam at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in the 1950s, as the school\u2019s first Black swim team captain. He worked for most of his life to dispel myths about the ability of Black people to swim and to extend opportunities to young Black children to access swim facilities and instruction. He also competed in AAU swimming and became a New York City lifeguard as a teen, then enlisted in the United States Army in 1962. He coached with the Finmen, which were variously called Trot\u2019s Finmen before becoming Nu-Finmen in the 1990s, while working for the New York City subway as a motorman.<\/p>\n<p>Trotman founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Swim Classic in 1981, which annually brings more than 1,000 swimmers to Long Island for a multicultural meet that attracts swimmers from the U.S. and the Caribbean. He was profiled for his work by the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1973\/04\/15\/97132017.html?pageNumber=125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in 1973<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/04\/05\/nyregion\/a-coach-for-success-in-the-pool-and-in-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">again in 1998<\/a>. He won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaswimming.org\/news\/2016\/02\/05\/trotman-continues-to-guide-and-inspire-young-minority-swimmers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2014 USA Swimming and Diversity Inclusion Award<\/a> and was the first minority coach to train age-group swimmers at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, as part of its outreach program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to get rid of the myth that Black people can\u2019t swim,\u201d Jennifer Trotman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/17\/sports\/robert-trotman-dead.html?smid=tw-nytsports&amp;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the <\/a><em>New York Times.<\/em> \u201cHe grew up in swimming not seeing someone who looked like him. 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