User:Dcw2003

dcw2003 was a technical writer and trainer who worked two decades writing documentation for companies focusing in the area of network management software. He received a BS in Political Science from Tufts University in 1977, and studied Political Theory, International Relations, and Soviet government and history. He received a Masters in Teaching in 1979, an Associates in Electronics Technology in 1981, and later trained as a paralegal. He has currently completed over 43,000 edits, and is a Master Editor. He swam with a college swim team, mostly for the exercise during college, and was an enthusiastic masters swimmer for thirty years. He is currently adding and editing the bios of olympic swimmers, distance swimmers, and swim coaches.

(Kenny Beck, Bob Bray, Ralph Budelman, Lee Case, Devere Christensen, Harold Dash, Dixon Fiske, Eddie Knox, Jerry Miller, Don Tierney and Frank Walton)

A brief list of boxing articles created and most heavily edited include but are not limited to:


 * Abraham Jacob Hollandersky
 * Austin Rice
 * Dave Palitz
 * Mosey King
 * Captain George Fried
 * Joe Glick
 * Syd Terris (From Small Stub)
 * Jack Bernstein (boxer)(From small stub)
 * Abie Bain
 * Jack Silver (boxer)
 * Jimmy Goodrich
 * Phil Bloom
 * Venice Borkhorsor
 * Solly Seeman (In progress)
 * Mushy Callahan (from small stub)
 * Benny Valgar
 * Joe Bernstein (Added references and boxing table)
 * Joe Benjamin (boxer) (In progress)
 * Eddie Kelly (boxer)
 * Tom McCormick (Added image, table, and two sections of text)
 * Matt Wells (From small stub)
 * Harry Lewis (boxer) From short stub
 * Mike (Twin) Sullivan
 * William "Honey" Mellody
 * Frank Erne
 * Tommy Freeman (boxer)
 * Al McCoy (From short Stub)
 * Joe Gans - (Fixed in-line references for web-sites)
 * Al Hostak
 * Rube Ferns
 * Solly Krieger
 * Pat Bradley
 * List of welterweight boxing champions (Added seven champions)
 * Mike Glover (boxer)
 * Ray Bronson
 * Waldemar Holberg
 * Isadore Schwartz
 * Newsboy Brown (From Stub)
 * Kid Norfolk (Added five references, and removed references needed warning)
 * Added sources for boxer Johnny Coulon, and section titles
 * Wrote Frankie Neil from scratch, bantamweight boxing champion
 * Added Record box and photo for boxer Montie Attell, also photos, and did minor grammar edit
 * Created Harry Forbes from scratch, included table, photos, and many references
 * Created Boxer Eddie Martin, bantamweight, as Eddie Martin (boxer)
 * Updated and added greatly to Abe Goldstein, bantamweight champion boxer, photo, 25 references, etc.
 * Added 23 references to Terry McGovern, from the existing three, as references were required. Improved headers and added text.
 * Wrote Ike Weir from scratch.
 * Added photo, references, and section headers to Torpedo Billy Murphey
 * Added greatly to Young Griffo, which had been a short stub. Created an additional twenty references, photos and text.
 * Created articles Ben Jordan
 * Created article Eddie Santry from scratch
 * Created article Mike Ballarino, Jr. Lightweight champion
 * Created article Tippy Larkin from tiny stub
 * Heavily edited and organized article on Thai flyweight boxer Chartchai Chionoi
 * Created from scratch Flyweight Champion Filipino boxer Bernard Villacampo
 * Heavily added to and edited Lou Salica from very small stub. Added photo, content, and over 20 references
 * Created article Eddie Connolly (boxer) Need to add disambiguation pages
 * Added references to boxer Harry Harris, and much text
 * Completed article Georgie Abrams from stub
 * Wrote most of Izzy Jannazzo article
 * Completed and improved article Ruby Goldstein and added photo and many references
 * Completed Petey Sarron, boxing stub
 * Completed Johnny Jadick, boxing stub
 * Completed Al Foreman, boxing stub
 * Completed most of Pinky Silverberg from tiny stub, 25 references added, photo, etc.
 * Added photograph, text, better headers, boxing record, and numerous references to Pete Sanstol, boxer
 * Created Tod Morgan from tiny stub, adding 30 references, photos, and several pages of text
 * Updated boxer Steve Cruz from small stub, added numerous references
 * Updated boxer Frankie Burns from small stub with no references
 * Created from scratch Bantamweight title claimant, "Little" Jackie Sharkey
 * Added greatly to tiny stub for 1920's heavyweight Bill Brennan (boxer)
 * Updated and greatly added to boxer Floyd Johnson, added references, and photo
 * Added to 1860's Jewish American Lightweight Boxing Champion Young Barney Aaron, adding important primary source references, photos
 * Greatly added to Jewish boxer Maxie Berger's bio from small stub adding photos, and more accurate and complete data
 * Completed boxer's Ike Williams and Juan Zurita's bios from small stubs.
 * Sammy Angott from stub
 * Lew Jenkins from small stub
 * Completed boxing bios for Paddy DeMarco and Jimmy Carter from stubs
 * Completed entry for George Chip, middleweight champion
 * Rewrote boxers Julie Kogon, Leo Rodak, Petey Scalzo, Joey Archibald, adding hundreds of inline references
 * Added boxers Alphonse Halimi, Robert Cohen, Freddie Gilroy, Raul Macias, John Henry Lewis, and Ben Jeby from small stubs
 * Rewrote and added Benny Leonard, PT-109, PT-59

The following Rhodium Editing Star on left is from: Service awards/Table

{{Infobox college coach }} Eddie Lawrence Sinnott is an American former All-American competition swimmer for Southern Methodist University, who coached the Southern Methodist swim team for thirty years from 1989-2019, leading them to 16 league crowns and 11 top NCAA Division finishes.
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Sinnott was born in Greenwich,CT on February 24, 1954, to Anita and Lawrence Sinnott.

Swimming at SMU from 1972-76, he earned All-America honors in 1973 and 1974, was a four-time letter winner, and in 1973 captured the Southwest Conference Championship in the 400 IM.

In his first coaching position, he Assistant Coached Louisiana State University in 1988 when they were winners of the Southeastern Conference Title. As Head Coach at SMU from 1989-2019, his teams won 16 conference championships, consisting of four WAC Championships from 1997-2000, five in the NIC conference from 2001-2005, and seven in Conference-USA from 2006-2010, and 2012-2013. He had 16 Coach of the year honors with 3 with the Southwester Conference, 3 with the Western Athletic Conference, 3 with the NIC conference, 6 with Conference-USA, and 1 with the Big 8 Conference.

In 1996, Sinnott coached SMU swimmer Ryan Berube to a gold medal as a team member of the U.S.A. 4×200 free relay team. In the summer of 2000, Lars Frolander became the fourth SMU swimmer to capture a gold medal at the Olympic Games, winning the 100 butterfly in Sydney, Australia. During Sinnott coaching tenure, both Berube and Frolander were recipients of the NCAA Swimmer of the Year award within two years, with Berube in 1996, and Frolander in 1998.

Your first barnstar
Frank Elm was an American competitive swimmer and a Hall of Fame swimming coach for Rutgers University from 1961-1993, and the first coach of the Rutgers Women's Swimming team from 1974-1993. He served on the staff of Olympic Teams, as an Assistant in 1968 and 1976, and as Head Coach in 1980. Elm was born on October 30, 1929, and was an All-American swimmer at Indiana University. He would later serve as a swimmer/coach in the Marine Corps.

One of his first coaching assignments was at Summit, New Jersey's YMCA where his men's team won 68 consecutive meets, and his girls team won 70 consecutive meets.

Coaching Rutgers
Elm coached Rutgers teams from 1961 though 1993. From 1961 through 1972, his men's team captured 11 consecutive winning seasons, achieving an overall record of 79-42. The Eastern Seaboard Championships, created in 1965 improved Rutger's Athletics, with the contributions of top swimming performers Bill Clark in 1963, Larry Jones and John Wasylyk in 1964, Don Galluzzi, and Marty Flickenger in 1965, and diver Roy Nicholas, an Eastern Champion, in 1964.

Simultaneous with coaching the men's team, Elm started the Rutger's Women's team, coaching them from 1974 through 1993. Judy Mellick, from the class of 1977 was the first woman to swim for Rutgers. Impressively, Elm's women's team started the season with three successive undefeated seasons from 1975-77, and dominated the Eastern Championships. At the 1977 National Championships, they became the only Eastern team in the East to place in the top ten.

Honors
Elm was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Rutgers Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.

He died on October 30, 1929 in Piscataway, New Jersey at the age of 92.

Union College
Bassett led Union College swimming team from 1987-1995. In her eight years with the men's team, she led them to a New York State Championship in her last year with the team in 1995, earning an overall record of 42-20.

In eight years coaching the women's team, Bassett earned an overall record of 63-10, and led the team to its first New York State Title in 1990, and again in 1994, when the team completed a very rare perfect 9-0 season. Forty-two Union women swimmers made it to NCAA meets, with twenty earning All-American honors. Union's single women swimmer to win an NCAA National Championship was Julie Benker in 1993, swimming the 100-backstroke. The women's swim team at Union qualified for the NCAA Division III championships during each of her eight seasons, and had three consecutive Division III top ten finishes between 1992-1994. She was also named the College Swimming Coaches Association of America's (CSCAA) NCAA Division III Co-Coach of the year in 1993.

Bassett served as Director of Athletics at Carnegie Mellon University from 2005-13. She has served as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Ithaca College since 2013.

Swimming community roles
Bassett served on the NCAA Management Council from 1999-2004, chairing the Council in 2004, where she helped develop and pass a broad reform package that was adoped in the 2004 NCAA convention.

Honors
Bassett was a three-time New York State Swimming Coach of the Year at Union College and was a 1993 NCAA Division III Women's Coach of the Year for the Union College Women. She also received the Giambrone Service Award in 2004 for her work with the Union College Women, and as an Athletic Director. Jean Giambone Service Award (Union College)

Coaching
Kuster began his coaching career with the Wilton YMCA Yahoos from 1993-1996, where he led the team to a Women's National Championship. 

He coached at Harvard from 1996-1999, leading the team to 3 Ivy League Titles, and in 1998 to an 11th place finish at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Championships. While at Harvard, he studied for a Masters in education, human development and psychology, which he completed in June, 1999.

He coached at Williams College from September of 1999 through 2024, where he led the Williams men to 21 NESAC conference team championships and the Williams women to 20 NESCAC conference championships from 2001 to 2024. He led the men's and women's teams to a combined 37 New England Small College Athletic Association (NESAC) conference championships.

Coaching
In his early coaching career, Steele worked as a club coach in Carbondale and Peoria, Illinois. He coached nine years in the Peoria area including four years at Richwoods High School from 1962-1966, and five years at Deerfield High School from 1966-70. During his tenure as a High School coach, he mentored 27 All American swimmers, three Illinois State Champions, three state record holders, and eight conference title teams. He has also coached club teams in Wichita, Kansas, and Justus Aquatics, Fla.

Collegiate coaching
He was hired to coach swimming at Northwestern University in June of 1970, and served from 1970 through 1973, replacing former 26-year veteran Coach Bill Peterson. His 1972-3 team, largely underclassmen, had 12 members with NCAA qualifying times, and finished 23rd in the NCAA championships

In July 1973, he was hired to coach his Alma Mater Southern Illinois University by Athletic Director Doug Weaver, where he remained through 1984. His SIU teams at Southern Illinois were six time winners of the National Independent Championship and in ten years finished their swimming season rated in the top 20 in NCAA Division I competition.

From 84 through 1995, he was the Director of Athlete Development for U.S.A. swimming. One of his most distinguished periods of service was with California State Bakersfield where he coached from 1997 through 2004. From 2004 through 2010, he was a USA Swimming Master Coach/Consultant.

Nineteen of his swimmers in 41 events have been world ranked and two American Record holders have been among swimmers he coached.

He has coached swimmers at the Pan Am Games, World Championships, Olympics, and sports festivals. He has coached U.S. teams in international meets.

Mentoring roles
An active participant in the swimming community, and a swimming mentor by 1973, he was co-chair of the World's Swimming Coach Clinic in Chicago. He led over 100 USA Team camps and over 50 Winning Spirit Racing Camps, a program he founded himself. He has served as a speaker to as many as 30,000 coaches at ASCA, FINA, LSC and the High School Coaches Associations. He is the author of the book, Games, Gimmicks, Challenges, for Swimming Coaches..

Honors
Steele became a member of the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame in 2016 and is a recipient of the Southern Illinois University (SIU) Distinguished Alumnus for Professional Achievements. He is also a member of the International Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame, and the somewhat exclusive College Swimming Coaches Association of America's (CSCAA) Top 100 Coaches of the last Century.

Coaching
Kubik was Associate Head coach for the University of Texas under Head Coach Eddie Reese, from 1979 to 1981, and from 1986 through 2016.

Kubik departed UT for four years, where from 1981-1985, he was an age group coach for the Nashville Aquatics Club and then for the Longhorn Aquatics Club, a high achieving age group swim club in Austin, Texas.

University of Texas
Kubik coached a total of 34 seasons with Eddie Reese as Head Coach. During this period, Texas had 26 NCAA top-three finishes in the top three and 32 NCAA showings in the top-five. Texas had a total of 54 NCAA individual titles and 42 NCAA relay titles during Kubik's tenure, and had 32 Olympians who captured a total of 36 gold, 16 silver and eight bronze medals. The team of Kubik and Reese took SEC conference team titles in 33 of its 34 seasons working together.

In Kubik's final season, Texas had a perfect 10-0 record in dual meets, took it's 37th consecutive conference title, recorded seven NCAA four American records, and more significantly won their 12th NCAA National team title. Four swimmers form that team, Townley Haas, Jack Conger, Clark Smith and Joseph Schooling, were expected to attend the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

International coaching
He also coached several international teams. He was Asst. Coach for the U.S. team at the 2007 Pan American Games and served as a special assistant for the Coaching Staff of USA Swimming 2008 Beijing Olympics in 2008.

He also was the Team USA Asst. Coach at the FINA World Championships in 2009 and the 2015 World University Games.

Kris was married to the April Russell, daughter of David Russell's daughter, who was an outstanding defensive back on two University of Texas SEC Champion football squads from 1959-61.

Honors
In 2011, Kubik was inducted into University of Texas's Athletics Men’s Hall of Honor. In a more exclusive honor, he was more recently chosen as one of the 100 Greatest Swimming and Diving Coaches of the Century in 2021 by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). Kubik was also named to the National Collegiate and Scholastic Trophy by the CSCAA in May, 2017.

Coaching Williams
Later the coach of Wesleyan University, Hugh McCurdy, called Samuelson to ask him if he would like his name put in contention for the position of Head Swimming Coach at Williams College, as their current coach Bob Muir was retiring. Familiar with Bob Muir and the Williams College swimming program, Samuelson agreed to become a candidate for the coaching job. After a strong interview at Williams, Samuelson was offered the position of Head swimming coach, and he began the position in the 1966 season. In the early 1970's Williams became a coed University, and Samuelson, as a Swim coach and the Director of Physical Education helped ease the transition for the school to a fully coeducational institution. He coached the women's teams as well as the men's and their performances were equally outstanding. During Samuelson's tenure as head coach, the Williams Men's team were New England Champions 14 times with 8 consecutive championships, and he mentored 285 All-Americans. The Men's team had 10 top five NCAA finishes and 3 undefeated seasons.

The overall Men's record was 181 wins, 72 losses, with a .715 winning percentage.

Williams Women's team
Samuelson began coaching the Williams Women's swimming season in the 1975-76 season. In 1982, the Women's team won their first NCAA DIII championships and they won it again in 1983. In 1992, his Women's team repeated again as National Champions. Samuelson believed that those first two championships helped the women's team gain national recognition, helped improved funding and attendance for the program and helped his to recruit more competitive student athletes. His Women's teams had eight undefeated seasons, with two consecutive undefeated seasons, and had 11 top five NCAA finishes.

The Women's team overall record was 145 wins and 26 losses for .848 winning percentage.

Samuelson retired to the Sweetwood Retirement Living Community in Williamstown around 2016.

Honors
Samuelson was the 1980 New England Coach of the Year. Impressively, he was also chosen as one of the 100 Greatest Swimming and Diving Coaches of the Century by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). In 2000, the Williams College Swimming Pool, was renamed the Samuelson-Muir pool, to honor him, and Coach Muir, who how had been a long-term acquaintance and friend for many years.

Early life
Royer was born in Hilo, Hawaii on July 6, 1908 to Seki Kawamoto and Annie Hila.

Coaching
Kawamoto initially started the Schinmachi Town Swimming Club in the mid-1930s, which became the highly competitive Hilo Aquatics Club. In his early years, prior to having access to pools, Kawamoto used the Wailoa River for training.

Outstanding swimmers
Yoshi Oyakawa, who became his single greatest protege, and Hawaii's first Olympic gold medal winner, swam with Kawamoto at the Hilo Aquatics Club, and briefly at Hilo High School. Oyakawa won a gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He trained Richard "Sonny" Tanabe at Hilo High School as well as at the Hilo Aquatics Club, who would compete for the U.S. in the preliminary heats of the 1956 Olympic men's silver medal winning 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Kawamoto coached both Oyakawa and Tanabe in the 1952 Olympic trials in Detroit, Michigan. Other outstanding swimmers included Edward Kawachika, Dennis Baker, Laurence Hao, Masami Takahata, Yoshinobu Terada, Joe Kalua, Walter Silva, Jr., Roy Tanabe, Curtis and Robert Carlsmith, Carl Fujita, and Masa Onuma.

Retirement career
Kawamoto retired from his sales job at American Factors (AMFAC) in 1972, but continued coaching and conducting swimming classes for children. In 1973, he started a swimming-based exercise program for retired Hawaiians at the Senior Program of the Parks and Recreation Department. The program, which attracted wide attention was named "Aquathentics", which aided stroke patients and provided therapeutic benefit for handicapped individuals.

Kawamoto died at Hilo Hospital on April 7, 1982. He is survived by his wife Haruko, three sons and seven grandchildren.