- Bonnie Adair
Bonnie Adair was born in
El Segundo ,California in 1952, and startedswimming anddiving at age 5. Bonnie set 35 National Age Group records and for 29 years had the fastest 50-meter freestyle record for an 8-year-old. Bonnie competed in 14 National Championships (her first at age 13) and 2 Olympic Trials in 1968 and 1972 (United States Olympic Trials (swimming) ). She was many times a National finalist in the 100 free and 100 fly. She was a member of a 400-meter relay that established 6 American records.Bonnie attended
UCLA and then went on toLoyola Marymount University Law School. During law school, Bonnie was an assistant coach of the UCLA Women's Swim Team and was the head coach of Team Santa Monica (Santa Monica College ) age group team. In 1979, Bonnie along withClay Evans started the Santa Monica Masters Swim Team, known today as SCAQ (Southern California Aquatics - http://www.swim.net/SCAQ/). In 1997, Bonnie was selected as the United States Masters Coach of the Year cite web|url=http://www.usms.org/coach/coy.php|title=United States Masters Swimming|accessdate=November 15|accessyear=2007] andWestern State Conference Woman's Coach of the Year.References
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