I first learn to swim with my father at the mobile home park pool as a 7 year old. Then I took lessions in the summer time at the community pool in our area thru Red Cross. I went to a swim school to learn butterfly.
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Also,Skaky, in high school, many of the kids were hispanic since I had moved to Fountain Valley California during Jr high and attended Los Amigos High which had 25 percent of the students with spanish surnames and everyone was require to learn to swim in their freshmen year. Los Amigos had a lot of kids from Santa Ana, a city in those days which was already 25 percent hispanic. So, in some ways it was different but hispanics in those days number few on AAU teams. I remember a hispanic girl from Commerce, she switched from swimming to water Polo and did really well in AAU polo than she did at swimming.
Also,Skaky, in high school, many of the kids were hispanic since I had moved to Fountain Valley California during Jr high and attended Los Amigos High which had 25 percent of the students with spanish surnames and everyone was require to learn to swim in their freshmen year. Los Amigos had a lot of kids from Santa Ana, a city in those days which was already 25 percent hispanic. So, in some ways it was different but hispanics in those days number few on AAU teams. I remember a hispanic girl from Commerce, she switched from swimming to water Polo and did really well in AAU polo than she did at swimming.
