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253:. At Norristown High, Shoulberg helped manage the Track Team under Coach Pete Lewis, and had dreams of coaching as a profession. Despite choosing swim coaching as a career, Shoulberg has noted he was not an exceptional high school swimmer, never broke a standing record, and never swam for a college team. A Norristown area native, he lived within a two-mile radius of East Norriton township in the Philadelphia area his entire life. After High School, he served in the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1959 and then from 1961 to 1962.
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Germantown Academy, so the dates provided by the American Swimming Coaches Association are used. He had a long stint at the Mermaid Swim Club from 1958 to 1968, and coached at the Roxborough YMCA from 1968 to 1969.
345:(1984). David Berkoff, Dan Jorgensen, Sean Killian and Dave Wharton trained with Shoulberg at Germantown Academy Aquatics Club and Foxcatcher Swim Club for the 1992 swim season in preparation for the Olympics. Shoulberg's work as an Olympic Coach and Advisor in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics and with the U.S. Olympic team gave him extra time to work with Olympians.
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After his service in the army, he started work as a precision machinist, married his wife Molly around 1958, and eventually had four children, Steve, Rick, Becky and Bert. He began swim coaching at the
Norristown YWCA upon his return from military service around 1958, remaining there through 1968.
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