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Don Gambril

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was composed of many Rosemead Swim Club members. Gambril had previously founded the Rosemead Club in 1958. Commerce Swimming Club was located in the small town of City of Commerce, just outside Los Angeles, and though the town was small, it was prosperous and had a beautiful new swimming facility completed in 1963. The team included 1964 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder
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in 1983. Gambril was Scholastic Coach of the Year in 1985, and was made SEC Coach of the Year four times. In 1998, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, and in 1987, was inducted into his alma mater California State University's Hall of Fame. In 1996, Gambril was one of the first
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During the same period he was coaching at Long Beach State, Gambril started and coached the Phillips 66 Club team in Long Beach, training them at Belmont Plaza Swimming Pool. Phillips 66 won three National men's club championships in '68, '69, and '70. A few of Phillips 66 original members had come
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Around the same time, as his service at Pasadena City College, Gambril had an opportunity to coach a Club team that had demonstrated great achievement, as their Women's team had attended National tournaments, and Olympic trials. He took over the City of Commerce Swimming Club team around 1965, which
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After serving seventeen years as Swim Coach at Alabama through 1990, Gambril served six years, through around 1997, as the Associate Athletic Director at Alabama where he helped to manage sports programs with the exclusion of football, men's basketball, and gymnastics for women. In his last coaching
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where he continued to swim for a year. At East Los Angeles, he specialized in distance swimming, making the Junior College All-American team in the 1500-meter event. After marrying his wife Teddy on March 14, 1953, he went to work full time and then enlisted in the Navy reserves before graduating
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who is best known for coaching the University of Alabama from 1973 to 1990. His Alabama teams had top ten NCAA finishes eleven times, 3 Southeastern Conference titles, and were the runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 1977. Earlier, his Long Beach State teams had top ten NCAA finishes four times
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looked to Gambril to take over their Head Coaching position. Gambril was interested in a chance to coach a college team, but worked hard to find a suitable replacement at Arcadia, eventually settling on Ray Peterson, who would do an exceptional job, and coach at Arcadia for thirty years. Gambril
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of the Cincinnati Pepsi-Marlins and Lakewood Swim Clubs swam and coached with Gambril at the University of Alabama, and Pepsi-Marlins and Santa Clara Swim Club coach Jay Fitzgerald was an Alabama assistant coach under Gambril. San Jose swim club coach and 100-meter record holder
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From around 1956-57, he served in the Navy and swam for the All-Navy "B" team, competing occasionally in intercollegiate swimming competition and water polo. He swam on the winning 800 free relay at the All-Navy championships. While serving on the U.S. Navy Destroyer
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Gambril served on the United States Olympic Committee, and the AAU Men's and Women's Swim Committees. He has served on the United States Swimming Board of Directors, and the Rule Committee for the NCAA. He also served on the board of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
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Returning to college studies around 1957 after his service in the Navy, he completed his BA and Master's degree while attending California State at Los Angeles around 1960. The school was about 12 miles West of Rosemead High School where Gambril was coaching.
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became known as a coach who would work hard to find outstanding coaches to replace him when he made a move. In his first full year at Pasadena City College, the team won the league championship in 1966, and won it again in 1967. Future UCLA coach
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where he was on the swim team and played football, starting as a Center by his Senior year. He grew up shortly after the depression with a family of limited means where he learned the importance of a work ethic and the necessity of thrift.
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With a long history of coaching many championship teams, Gambril excelled in mentoring his assistant coaches, and worked with a number of future coaches who would make great contributions to swimming. Besides mentoring Stanford coach
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The team would have more than one world record holder, including John Sylvio Fiolo, who had set the world record for the breast stroke in February 1968 before coming to swim with Don at Long Beach State. 1972 Olympian Silver medalist
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In 1981, Gambril had a heart attack, and underwent quintuple bypass surgery to save his life. He changed his diet, lost weight, and made a thorough recovery, continuing to coach Alabama swimming for another nine years.
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in butterfly, who swam for Don for over five years, and 1964 world record holder Patty Caretto in distance freestyle. Other female Olympians he coached at City of Commerce included 1964 Olympic breast stroker
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swam for Gambril at Alabama, and Irvine Aquatics and Saddleback College Coach Flip Darr assisted Gambril at Phillips 66. Darr coached accomplished Olympic Gold Medalist Shirley Babashoff, among others.
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During Gambril's seven-teen year tenure at Alabama, the swim team had 11 top ten NCAA finishes, five times the number required to be made a member of the American Swim Coaches Hall of Fame.
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In his retirement, Gambril made the short move from Tuscaloosa to Northport, Alabama. As of 2020, he continued to try to exercise with light strength training and walking.
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college. Returning to complete his studies at California State, Los Angeles, he also played center and linebacker on their Football team for a year.
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In 1958, after his Navy service, Don had his first position as a fulltime teacher, instructing Social Studies at California's
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Gambril was born on January 2, 1934, in Altamont, Kansas, and after moving to El Sereno, California, attended El Sereno's
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In September 1963, Don took over the swim coach position as well as coaching Football and teaching P.E. and History at
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from 1968-71. He had the rare distinction of serving as a U.S. Olympic coach in five Olympics from 1968 to 1984.
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Following Long Beach State, Gambril began a two-year stint from 1971 to 1973 as head coach at prestigious
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would be mentored as an Assistant Coach under Gambril for one year at Pasadena City College around 1966.
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Gambril attended and swam for East Los Angeles Jr. College, from 1951-52, before transferring to
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position he coached the U.S. Swim team at the World Championships in Perth, Australia.
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and worked as a lifeguard at the end of 1957 upon his return from Naval service.
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at Long Beach State from 1967 to 1971, where he mentored Assistant Coach
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Gambril coached many well-known Olympic swimmers, including
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List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
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Master's Degree completed around 1960 in Kanner, Burt,
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swam for Gambril at Phillips 66 for eight years, Coach
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U.S. Olympic Coach and Assistant U.S. Olympic Coach in
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Coach 1968-1980 14: 1074:Don Gambril: A Coach With a Heart 954:"Olympedia Bio, Barbara Hounsell" 825:Don Gambril: A Coach With a Heart 812:Don Gambril: A Coach With a Heart 787:Don Gambril: A Coach With a Heart 478:from Long Beach State College. 270:1985 Scholastic Coach of the Year 3057:Harvard Crimson swimming coaches 1130: 1109: 1029:"USA Swimming Awards and Honors" 2677:1984 USA Olympic swimming team 2331:1980 USA Olympic swimming team 1933:1976 USA Olympic swimming team 1569:1972 USA Olympic swimming team 1172:1968 USA Olympic swimming team 1: 693:. 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Altamont, Kansas
California State University, Los Angeles
HC
Long Beach State
Harvard University
University of Alabama
USA Swimming Award
International Swimming Hall of Fame
swimming
coach
Woodrow Wilson High School
Occidental College
USS Cunningham
El Monte High School
Rosemead High School
Arcadia High School
Pasadena City College
Ron Ballatore

Sharon Stouder
Sandy Nitta
Jeanne Hallock Craig
head coach
Skip Kenney

Hans Fassnacht
Gunnar Larsson
Dick Jochums
Harvard University

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