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Coach Joe

 

Head Coach

Joe Biondi
216 Elizabeth Street
Clearwater FL 33759
727-725-9978

President Christine

 

President

Christine Kelly
1871 Pasadena Drive
Dunedin FL 34698
727-733-5000

Nancy

 

Vice President

Nancy Durstein
1191 Mineola Circle
Palm Harbor FL 34683
727-784-5780

MBradley

 

Treasurer/Registrar

Marianne Bradley
869 Manning Road
Palm Harbor FL 34683
727-784-0420
727-433-0894

Don

 

FACT Team Communications

Don Puchalski
157 Lakeview Way
Oldsmar FL 34677
727-786-1530 (winter)
262-537-2609 (summer)
Joan

 

USMS/LMSC/Sr Games Liaison

Joan Campbell
802 Old Mill Pond Road
Palm Harbor FL 34683
727-938-7181
 Florence Delaney  
SUN Board Member

Florence Delaney
407 Driftwood Dr. E.
Palm Harbor FL
34683

727-937-0163
 Pat Crow

 

SUN/LMSC Newsletter writer

Patricia Cohen Crow
3846 Timber Ridge Court
Palm Harbor FL 34685
727-785-5095

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IN MEMORIAM - BEVERLY TUCKER - March 20, 1935-April 4, 2008

BEVERLEY swam away peacefully into the sunset on April 4, 2008, after a very short valiant battle with cancer. Many of us who remember a vibrant, active, enthusiastic, loving and caring personality just four months ago.  Bev invented our term “aquaquack” and to say she taught us well is an understatement.  Rarely was she not offering us animated conversation and her quality of life was inspirational.  “Where’s Bev going this time?” was always a topic – to Colorado to bike and hike or ski, to Mexico to enjoy her friends, to California to swim in San Francisco Bay, and to Australia to swim in Sydney with the sharks.   Of course, she spent at great deal of time in Asheville, North Carolina with friends and a good team there and her life in Collingwood, at the south end of Georgian Bay in Canada, consisted of a great deal of skiing, which she enjoyed immensely. 
    Beverley’s long swimming history included many open water swims, which she excelled in.  This past year she swam the Lake Placid Swim and she has participated in distance swims throughout the world.  In Brazil they were foolish enough to claim she was too old to swim the open water 5K in the Latycar World Championships.  With her signature tenacity she prevailed – of course won her age group and swam faster than many others younger than she. 

     She started her swimming career as a child and was a member of the Canadian Synchronized Swim Team and awarded a demonstration medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games.  She was active in Canadian swimming,  competing in past Canadian National and World Championships.   In the U.S. she was a member of the North Carolina Masters Swimming (while living in Asheville). Beverley first joined the St Petersburg Masters Team around 1981; was former president and influential in bringing the legendary coach George Bole to their team in l984.  Tiger Holmes of the Holmes Lumber Jax team recalls the help Bev gave them when many swimmers from Florida made the trip to Australia for the Masters Worlds in Brisbane in 1988.  Her friendliness and thoughtfulness in making sure everyone was taken care of was exemplary of her always bright and cheery outlook.  Her friends at St Pete recall the great times at the Penn Flora, which the Tuckers owned, with Bev and her husband hosting many a party there and caring for George after his first heart attack.  She was currently a member of our SUN Masters Team & swam with the Florida Aquatic Combined Team.  She had planned to swim in Perth, Australia at the FINA World Masters Championships this month with her Canadian Team, but it was not to be. Beverley, we will miss you and our Aquaquacking!

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Marilyn Belson

Diane Berberian

Alexis Biondi

Jamie Biondi

Joe Biondi

Ellen Bowen

Marianne Bradley

Maria Buda O'Toole

Joan Campbell

Joyce Chiavetta

Gladis Choueifati

Bill Conlon

Rosalind Corbo

John Cornish


Patricia Crow

Florence Delaney

Robert Ditro

Nancy Durstein

Cheryl Forgang

Patricia Frantz

Arnaud Glacet

Danielle Griffin

Paul Giuliani

Steven Hunt

Allen Jones

Clayton Keller

Christine Kelly






Gary Laursen

Betty Lorenzi

Didier Malagies

John Marzulli

Louise Moran

Steve Morris

Dan Mullett

Jerry Napp

Paul Polgar

Don Puchalski

Roz Randall

Marie Reed



Brian Rohrsen

Elliott Schofield

David Shawver

Janet Shellenberger

Linda Simpson

Elspeth Smith

Lora Spratt

Kim Thinel

Winnie Walter

Peter Williams