Joseph M. (Jody) Grant
An accomplished swimmer and coach, Grant learned to swim at the San Antonio Country Club under Coach Jack Tolar, where he won his first “High Point” trophy at six years old. In the summer of 1953, at age fourteen, he began swimming competitively with the San Antonio Aquatic Club coached by Roy Kneip. That summer he and a group of boys started the Alamo Heights High School Swim Team. He ended his high school career as a three-time all-American and set national Junior Olympic records in the 200-meter freestyle and the 400-meter freestyle. Competing for SMU, he won all three 1650 titles at the Southwest Conference Championships during his varsity eligibility. In 1959, he won the High Point trophy and set a new Southwest Conference record of 18:34, which was the fastest time in the NCAA that year… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Leigh Ann Fetter-Witt
A record-breaking swimmer at the University of Texas, Fetter-Witt was a fifteen-time NCAA Champion. Not only did she win the 50-yard freestyle all four years in college (1988-91), she also became the first woman ever to swim the 50-free in under 22 seconds. Simultaneously holding the American record in the 50-yard and 50-meter freestyle, she became only the third woman in NCAA history to win the same event four times. As a freshman, she represented the United States at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She finished fifth in the final of the women's 50-meter freestyle. Returning to Texas, she won the 100 free her last three years and was a part of three national championship Teams… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Carl Arthur (Cal) Loock
An innovator in the sport of diving, Cal took USA Diving literally higher than it had ever been. Son of Carl J (Joseph) Loock, TSDHOF inductee and the “pioneer of Texas diving,” Cal Loock racked up accomplishments at all levels: high school, collegiate, national and international. In springboard, he was a high school all-American, state champion, TAGS champion and Texas-Mexico Games champion. An NCAA all-American while diving at SMU, Loock was undefeated at the Southwest Conference Championships in the 1-meter all four years and won two 3-meter conference championships… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Susan Ingraham
The 2008 U.S. Masters Swimming National Coach of the Year, Susan Ingraham has coached scores of athletes for more than 45 years. Shortly after joining the University of Arizona, where she was an all-American and scholarship swimmer, Ingraham began coaching at a local swim program. It would be the start of an incredible career molding swimmers. Her national accomplishments kicked off with the founding of Masters of South Texas (MOST) in San Antonio. Starting with “zero” swimmers in the first two weeks, the program grew into producing six world record holders, 16 USMS national champions, 21 World Championships Iron Man qualifiers, 43 Masters all-Americans, and 105 nationally ranked top ten swimmers… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Steve McFarland
McFarland has done everything there is to do in diving: diver, coach, judge, administrator, broadcaster, and promoter. McFarland grew up in Amarillo, Texas, where he was introduced to the sport of trampoline at the age of ten. His coach, Gymnastics Hall of Fame inductee Nard Cassel, encouraged him to dive in the summer as it would make him a better trampolinist. His father, Clint, took him to Phoenix, Arizona, to train with Olympic diving coach Dick Smith. He spent his summers competing in Texas Age Group Swimming events until he was sixteen, diving against rivals Cal Loock and Mike Malone. McFarland left diving to pursue his trampoline career as he intended to bounce for coach Newt Loken at the University of Michigan. However, his plans were de-railed when the NCAA dropped trampoline as a sport his senior year in high school. Fortunately, University of Texas coach Hank Chapman offered a diving scholarship, and McFarland’s diving career was renewed… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Sam Kendricks
Known as “the voice of swimming,” Sam Kendricks's talent, love, enthusiasm, and dedication to the sport brought him to announce all major USA and NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships for the past thirty years. This list includes the past six U.S. Olympic Trials. He grew up swimming in age-group and high school competition in Irving, Texas. This led him to walk on to the University of Texas swim team. Kendricks had a strong desire to be a coach and switched from swimmer to team manager with the 1981 team that won the NCAA Championship. Kendricks went on to coach under Eddie Reese at Texas for five years and on Richard Quick's staff for three years before coaching club swimming in Arkansas until retiring from coaching in 1995… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
Wally Pryor Distinguished Team:
Dallas Mustang Swim Team and Dallas Mustang Diving
Dallas, Texas, has been a center for aquatic success since the 1940s, when Wally Hofrichter led the Dallas Aquatic Club. Hofrichter, a University of Texas all-American and TSDHOF honoree, was perhaps the earliest in what became a long line of coaches and swimmers with connections to major programs and success at state, national, and international levels. In 1966 Legendary SMU Coach Red Barr along with Walter Kaspareit started the Junior Mustang Swim Team. In the late ‘60s the team began to truly impact swimming beyond Dallas, and swimmers from each iteration of the Mustang Swim Club have competed at every Olympic Trials since 1968. To this day, there continues to be a close relationship between the club and the SMU women’s and men’s swimming programs… [Full Bio, Videos, Photos]
