48-3 (Long Beach State) 237 of 269 (Alabama) .864 Percentage [1] 300 total wins, all teams
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
3 Southeastern Conference team titles: Men-(1982, 1987) Women –(1985) Top Ten NCAA Finishes-16 U.S. Olympic Asst. Coach 1968-1980 Olympic Head Coach 1984
Awards
USA Swimming Award 4 time SEC Coach of the Year 1985 Scholastic Coach of the Year International Swimming Hall of Fame
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Donald Lee Gambril (born January 2, 1934) is an American former Hall of Fame swimming coach who is best known for coaching the University of Alabama from 1973 to 1990. His Alabama teams had top ten NCAA finishes eleven times, 3 Southeastern Conference titles, and were the runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 1977. Earlier, his Long Beach State teams had top ten NCAA finishes four times from 1968-71. He had the rare distinction of serving as a U.S. Olympic coach in five Olympics from 1968 to 1984.[2][3]
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Donald Lee Gambril (born January 2, 1934) is an American former Hall of Fame swimming coach who is best known for coaching the University of Alabama from...
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brother Jack, later swimming for a club in El Monte, California coached by Don La Mont, a talented coach. Beginning around the age of 13 in 1970, Shirley...
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times. In 1969, while attending Long Beach State University under Coach DonGambril, he broke the world record in the 400 m freestyle, and next year he broke...
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(1887–1940), NCAA Champion, Olympic and Hall of Fame Wrestling Coach; Perth DonGambril (born 1934), Hall of Fame swimming coach; Altamont Ted Gilmore (born...
Fame Coach DonGambril as head coach in 1971 through 1978, and also coached for the highly successful Long Beach Swim Club, where Gambril had also coached...
Clara, he coached 26 future Olympians including Mark Spitz, Greg Buckingham, Don Schollander, Donna deVarona, Chris von Saltza and Claudia Kolb. During Haines's...
Sterkel (team captain) Susie Thayer Susan Walsh Sippy Woodhead Coaches Paul Bergen DonGambril George Haines Dennis Pursley Randy Reese Mark Schubert...
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