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Foxcatcher Swim Club at the recently completed 50-meter pool at Dupont's Foxcatcher Farm athletic center. He remained with the Foxcatcher program from 1976 to 1978. Returning to the place of his birth, he accepted an offer to coach the Yale University Men's
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Championship in 1997–98. He also served as head coach of the Women's team from 1980 to 2010, impressively leading them to five Ivy League Championships. While at Yale, he founded and coached the Omni Swim Club in
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Downington, Pennsylvania, not far from Newton Square where he coached the Foxcatcher Swim Club. He died on May 4, 2023, in the Philadelphia area. He was married to Kathleen M. Lawless Keefe and was father to four children, Kelly Anne, Frank Keefe Jr., Luke and Sean Keefe.
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Villanova at a dual meet in February 1959, Keefe helped set a record of 4:10.4 swimming the first leg of a 440 Medley relay, and swam a pool record of 2:22.2 for his specialty, the 220 backstroke. Keefe frequenty swam with Villanova's 400 Medley Relay team, which usually took first
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