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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Checkoway, Julie.     Subjects     Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)     Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.     Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.     Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Checkoway, Julie.       by title:      The three-year swim ...       by call number:      797.2106 C514t     Search the Web     Checkoway, Julie.     Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)     Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.     Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.     Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.       MARC Display

The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory / Julie Checkoway. by Checkoway, Julie. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. Call #: 797.2106 C514t Subjects Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)   Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.   Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.   Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.   Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.   Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography. ISBN:  9781455523443 (hc.) 1455523445 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  viii, 415 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-388) and index. Contents:  Preface -- Part One: Such Stuff as Dreams (1932-1937) -- Chapter One: To Race with Giants -- Chapter Two: Hardhead -- Chapter Three: A Wide Awakening -- Chapter Four: The Pursuit of Greater Ventures -- Part Two: On Such a Sea (1938) -- Chapter Five: An Exercise of Will -- Chapter Six: Owing to the Protracted Hostilities -- Chapter Seven: Keeping 1940 in Mind All the Time -- Part Three: Takenat the Flood (1939) -- Chapter Eight: Down Under -- Chapter Nine: Youths of the Sea -- Chapter Ten: The Coup -- Part Four: A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1940-1941) -- Chapter Eleven: A Season of Flame -- Chapter Twelve: Santa Barbara -- Chapter Thirteen: Mr. Smith Comes to Maui -- Chapter Fourteen: Blitzkrieg-- Part Five: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight (Nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948) -- Chapter Fifteen: Go for Broke -- Chapter Sixeen: Home Front -- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948) -- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices -- Afterword -- Author's Notes -- Section Notes -- Three-Year Swim Club Members -- Mahalo Nui Loa/Thank You -- Index -- About the Author. Summary:  The inspirational story of a group of impoverished sugar plantation kids who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 on the island of Maui, Soichi Sakamoto, an ordinary grammar school teacher, whose swiming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water, took a group of underprivileged children mostly of Japanese ancestry and, in three short years, transformed them into Olympic champions. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 797.2106 C514t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 797.2106 C514t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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