Gloria Callen

Gloria Callen

Gloria Callen, a backstroke swimmer from the United States, was the 1942 Associated Press Athlete of the Year. [http://web.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/_Rainbow/Documents/be8486ac-eb60-4aab-807b-966b288b72eb/awards_and_honors.pdf USA swimming awards table] ]

Biography

"Glamorous" Gloria Marie Callen was born in 1922. She married Herbert Erskine Jones Jr. in 1944. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,932490,00.html Marriage announcement] in Time magazine, October 23 1944]

Gloria Callen set 35 American records and one world record in swimming, and won 13 American championships. Due to World War 2, she was never able to compete in world chamionships or Olympic Games, even though she qualified for the 1940 Olympic Games. She quit swimming when she went to college at Barnard College and joined the American Women's Voluntary Services. [http://www.ishof.org/honorees/84/84gcallen.html International Swimming Hall of Fame] biography]

Gloria Callen was one in a row of glamorous swimming champions, and was voted one of America's 13 best-dressed women by the New York's Fashion Academy.

Honours

*1942: Associated Press Athlete of the Year
*1976: inducted in the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame [ [http://www.rcshf.org/inductees/inductees_J.html Inductee list] of the Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame]
*1984: International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer

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