Julie Checkoway - The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
A documentary filmmaker with an extensive creative writing background, Checkoway devotes her first book to the story of one of the world’s most unlikely sports triumphs. In 1937 a visionary schoolteacher on Maui turned his impoverished, malnourished students into amateur swimmers—and coached them into true athletes. By 1940, when this Japanese-American swim-team struggled against racism as well as physical privations, they not only persevered, but triumphed.