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Fred Schlicher

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  • 2010 Inducted into the New England LMSC Hall of Fame (Pool Performance)

  • USMS Records - 81 lifetime, 5 currently held

  • USMS Pool All American – 176 (1232 points)

  • USMS Top Ten – 381 Individual

  • NE LMSC All Time Top 3 – 398 points

Fred is originally from Greenwich, CT. He graduated from Culver Academy, class of 1966, where he held a number of swimming records including the 100 butterfly, 160 individual medley, 40 and 200 freestyle events.

From Around the NELMSC – September 2018:

New England swimming legend Fred Schlicher , who recently turned 70, set world records in the 200 free and 200 fly at the 2018 Pan American Masters Championships in Orlando, FL. He also set UANA records in the 50 back and 200 back. Two weeks earlier, at the 2018 South Central Zone LCM Championship meet in Texas, Fred bested the world record in the 100 fly, as well and set national records in the 200 IM and 400 IM.

Clara Walker

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  • 2010 Inducted into the New England LMSC Hall of Fame (Pool Performance)

  • 1948 Olympian

  • 1995 Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame

  • 2003 Inducted into the Masters International Swimming Hall of Fame

  • USMS Records – 146 lifetime, 0 currently held

  • USMS All American – 341 (2387 points)

  • USMS Pool All Star – 7 Years

  • USMS Top Ten – 469 Individual

  • NE LMSC All Time Top 3 – 143 points

Excerpts from the 1995 IMSHOF Induction Ceremony program:

When Clara Lamore climbed out of the pool at the 1948 Olympic Games in London after swimming the 200-meter breaststroke as a member of the United States Women’s Olympic Team, she swore she would never do it again. At 22 she had been swimming ten years and had had enough. After all, she was the winner of three U.S. national championships. She had done it.

It lasted for 33 years, until her doctor recommended, she start swimming to relieve the pain from a bad back. She was 54 at the time. She had worked for the telephone company, spent seven years in a cloistered religious order and became the first female graduate of Providence College in Rhode Island. She was married to Doneal Walker, a Naval officer and traveled through Europe with him for seven years until he died unexpectedly in 1970. She then taught school and became a guidance counselor at Western Hills Junior High School. It was then that she got back into the pool—for therapeutic reasons. Wasn’t much, just three days a week for a few months. But after she entered her first swim meet, maintaining somewhat the same stroke that Coach Joe Whatmore had taught her years before, she set a U.S. national record in the 50-yard breaststroke in the 50-54 age group. It re-inspired her and re-enthused her to train hard. It was as if all the years away from the water didn't matter. It was as though she were alive again back in the Olneyville Boys Club, her world defined by the borders of the pool.

Once again swimming became everything to Clara.

Win Wilson

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  • 2010 Inducted into the New England LMSC Hall of Fame (Pool Performance)

  • USMS Records – 24 lifetime, 0 currently held

  • USMS All American – 79 (553 points)

  • USMS Top Ten – 299 Individual

  • NE LMSC All Time Top 3 – 101 points

In his book “Good Swimming” Win shares a lifetime of swimming vignettes and the wisdom gained on his journey from a junior lifesaving swimmer in the 1930s to a top middle-distance college swimmer, and later on, record-breaking Masters swimmer.

At Brown University, Win set records in the 220-, 440-, and 1500-yard freestyle events. He was inducted into Brown’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980. Even more impressive is the fact that he had never swum competitively before he entered Brown. The coach needed a distance swimmer, saw possibilities in Win’s stroke, and proceeded to “fashion a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”

Win made his return to competition in the mid 1970s, earning many honors during his Masters swimming career.

Excerpt from the Brown University Hall of Fame website:

You don’t become a Master’s Swimmer merely by sending in your application fee. In Wilson’s case, the price he pays is between 2,500 and 3,000 yards in the Smith Swimming Center pool each morning, back and forth until his lungs curse at him.