Philip Long

Last updated

Philip Long
Personal information
Full namePhilip Edward Long
Nickname"Phil"
National teamUnited States
Born (1948-12-06) December 6, 1948 (age 75)
Washington, D.C.
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight161 lb (73 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
ClubSuburban Seahawks Club
College team Yale University
Coach Frank Keefe
Suburban
Phil Moriarty
Yale

Philip Edward Long was born December 6, 1948, in Washington D.C., and was an American former competition swimmer.

Contents

Early swimming

In his youth, Long worked out with Philadelphia's Suburban Swim Club, an outstanding program started by Hall of Fame Coach Peter Daland around 1950, [1] [2] and after 1966 was under ASCA Hall of Fame Coach Frank Keefe, who coached Long during several of his years with the club. [3] At the age of 12 in February 1961, while swimming for Suburban Swim Club, he competed in the 50-yard breaststroke at the AAU Age Group championship in York, Pennsylvania. [4] Diverse in his stroke skills, by 1963 while swimming for the Suburban Club, he had distinguished himself in the individual medley, and competed in the AAU Tournament of Champions in York, Pennsylvania where he set a meet record of 1:06.9 for the 100 breast stroke in the Boy's 13-14 age group category. [5]

1968 Mexico Olympics

After placing third in the Olympic trials in the 200-meter breast, Long represented the United States in the event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. [6] He did quite well in the Olympic preliminaries swimming a 2:33.1 for the men's 200-meter breaststroke to qualify for the final of the event, where he finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6, not quite able to match his preliminary time. [7] [6] [8] His time placed him a little less than four seconds out of medal contention with American bronze medalist Brian Job. The gold medal winner, Felipe Munoz, represented Mexico in an Olympics where the Mexican Olympic team fared well, as they may have had an advantage swimming in their home country, being able to practice more frequently at altitude. [9]

He attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1967 to 1970, swimming as a Freshman in 1967. Showing skills in the breast stroke in his first year swimming for Yale, he set an NCAA Freshman record of 2:12.8 in the 200-yard breaststroke. [10] In one of his first years swimming for Yale, at the National AAU Swimming Championships in Greenville, North Carolina, in mid-April, 1968, Long placed third in the 100-yard breaststroke, with a time of 59:39. [11] He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. [12] [13]

He graduated from Yale with a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1970, and worked in Yale's information technology services starting in 1971. He held the formal title of Director of Academic Computing in January 1999, and served as Director of Yale's Information Technology Services from 2001 to 2010. [14] [15] [13]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Don Gambril</span> American swimming coach

Donald Lee Gambril 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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeremy Linn</span> American swimmer (born 1975)

Jeremy Porter Linn is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, world record-holder and current swim coach. Linn set an American record in the 100-meter breaststroke while winning the silver medal in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in a time of 1:00.77. With a burst of speed in the final stretch, he finished just .12 seconds behind the gold medal winner from Belgium who had previously set the World Record.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Hencken</span> American swimmer (born 1954)

John Frederick Hencken is an American former competition swimmer for Stanford University, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder primarily in the 100 and 200 meter breaststroke events. Hencken won five Olympic medals during his career in the 1972 Munich, and 1976 Montreal Olympics, including three golds.

David Lee "Dave" Wharton is an American former competition swimmer, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, and former world record-holder in two events. During his competition swimming career, Wharton set world records in both the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Yorzyk</span> American swimmer (1933–2020)

William Albert "Bill" Yorzyk Jr. was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and one-time world record-holder.

Patricia Kempner is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carl Robie</span> American swimmer (1945–2011)

Carl Joseph Robie III was an American competitive swimmer, who swam for the University of Michigan and was first a silver medalist in the 1964 Olympics, and then a gold medalist in the 1968 Olympics. He was a three-time world record-holder in the 200-meter butterfly, continuing to lower his times from 1961-63. After graduating Dickinson Law School around 1970, he practiced civil law in Sarasota, Florida.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Furniss</span> American swimmer (born 1952)

Steven Charles Furniss is an American former swimmer, business owner, Olympic bronze medalist and world record-holder.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catie Ball</span> American swimmer (born 1951)

Catharine Ball Condon, née Catharine Northcutt Ball, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay team. Ball is a former world record holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and is remembered as a teenage star who was the dominant female breaststroke swimmer of her generation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharon Wichman</span> American swimmer (born 1952)

Sharon Lynn Wichman, also known by her married name Sharon Jones, is an American former competition swimmer and 1968 Olympic champion in the breaststroke.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Daland</span> American swimming coach

Peter Daland was an International Swimming Hall of Fame U.S. Olympic and collegiate swim coach from the United States, best-known for coaching the University of Southern California Trojans swim team to nine NCAA championships from 1957-1992. Daland started Philadelphia's Suburban Swim Club around 1950, an outstanding youth program, which he coached through 1955, then served briefly as an Assistant Coach at Yale from 1955-56, where he was mentored by Olympic Coach and long serving Yale Head Coach Bob Kiphuth.

Mary Jane Parks is an American former competition swimmer and 1956 Olympic Bronze medalist.

Miriam Smith is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. Smith swam in the preliminary heats of the women's 200-meter backstroke event, and recorded a time of 2:22.05. In the preliminaries, she finished with the 13th fastest time, though in the competitive world of Olympic competition, her time was only 7 seconds behind the finalist who took the bronze medal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Johnson (swimmer)</span> American swimmer (born 1947)

David "Dave" Charles Johnson is an American former competition swimmer and 1968 Mexico City Olympic competitor. He later graduated Yale Medical School and became an orthopaedic surgeon, specializing in sports medicine.

William Roy Johnson was an American competition swimmer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeanne Hallock</span> American swimmer (born 1946)

Jeanne Courtney Hallock, also known by her married name Jeanne Craig, is an American former club, high school, and Olympic competition swimmer who was voted to the AAU All America team twice. Serving as the U.S. team Co-Captain, she swam in the preliminary heats of the gold medal-winning women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, though she did receive a medal as she did not swim in the finals. She also swam in the 1964 Olympic preliminaries for the 100-meter freestyle, her signature event, but did not make the finals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Philip Riker</span> American swimmer (born 1946)

Philip Riker III is an American former competition swimmer for the University of North Carolina, and a 1964 U.S. Olympic competitor in the 200-meter butterfly.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mary Freeman (swimmer)</span> American swimmer (born 1933)

Mary Gray Freeman, also known by her former married name Mary Kelly, as Mary Freeman Kelly and by her subsequent married name Mary Spitzer, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland in the 100-meter backstroke. After leaving competitive swimming in 1953, she became a Hall of Fame swim coach for Philadelphia's Vespar Boat Club from 1955-68 and coached the Women's Team at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. Recognized as one of the most outstanding women coaches of her era, in 1964 she was the first woman to be recommended as an American Olympic coach but declined the nomination, believing a man should take the honor as they were more reliant on earning wages to live.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gregory Jagenburg</span> American swimmer

Gregory "Greg" Jagenburg is an American former competition swimmer and a World Aquatics Champion in butterfly who swam for Long Beach State and the University of Arizona under Hall of Fame Coach Dick Jochums. In August 1975, Jagenburg swam a 2:00.73 in the 200-meter butterfly, just .03 seconds behind Mark Spitz's standing world record in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

Juan Carlos Bello is a Peruvian former butterfly, freestyle and medley swimmer. He was an outstanding competitor for the University of Michigan swim team and represented Peru at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. He later worked as a coach and served as the President of the National Swimming Foundation of Peru.

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Daland". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 4, 2008.
  2. ↑ "History of Suburban Swim Club". gomotionapp.com. gomotionapp. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  3. ↑ "American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Coach Frank Keefe". swimmingcoach.org.
  4. ↑ "28 Records Set in AAU Swim", The York Dispatch, York, Pennsylvania, 13 February 1961, pg. 12,
  5. ↑ "1500 Swimmers Take Part", The York Dispatch, York, Pennsylvania, 11 February 1963, pg. 14
  6. 1 2 Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Philip Long. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Olympic Games, Men's 200-meter Breast Preliminaries", The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, 22 October 1968, pg. 48.
  8. ↑ Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Swimming at the 1968 Tokyo Summer Games, Men's 200 metres Breaststroke Final. Retrieved October 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Olympedia 1968 Mexico Olympics Men's 200-meter Breast Final Results". olympedia.com.
  10. ↑ Bishop, Ken, "Big Crowd Expected for Stanford", The Peninsula Times Tribune, Palo Alto, California, 4 February 1969, pg. 25
  11. ↑ "Protest Disallowed", The York Dispatch, York, Pennsylvania, 13 April 1968, pg. 18.
  12. ↑ IvyLeagueSports.com, History of the Ivy league, NCAA Championships (1957–Present) Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved September 25, 2012.
  13. 1 2 "Olympedia Bio, Phil Long". olympedia.com.
  14. ↑ "Yale Confronts Aryan Nation", The Daily Utah Chronicle, Salt Lake City , Utah, 20 January 1999, pg. 4
  15. ↑ Sam Greenberg, "After a 'Long' career, IT chief steps down Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine ," Yale Daily News (October 7, 2010). Retrieved September 25, 2010.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.