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Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory
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Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to VictoryThe inspirational and little known story of a dedicated teacher who coached Hawaiian swimmers all the way to the Olympics, beautifully told in simple rhyme. When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher Soichi Sakamoto had an idea. He offered to take responsibility for the children and then he began training them how to swim. Using his science
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