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Shanaman Sports Museum

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1233L

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Kaye Hall-Greff was awarded this backstroke championship trophy, for 25 yards, when she was seven years old in 1958. Hall-Greff went on to become the first woman to break the one-minute barrier in the 100-yard backstroke and the incredible athlete was just getting started. Hall-Greff was a senior at Wilson High School in Tacoma swimming for renown coach Dick Hannula when she won a gold medal and set a world record in the 100-meter backstroke and was part of the 400 medley relay team in 1968 Olympic Games. Hall-Greff also earned a bronze in the 200-meter backstory. At the Pan-American Games leading up to the Olympics, she won a silver medal in 1967 and set three national indoor and four American swimming records. Hall-Greff went on to become a collegiate All-American, won three gold medals representing the University of Puget Sound at the World University Student Games in Torino, Italy, in 1970. She is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the Washington State Sports HOF and the Tacoma Pierce-County Sports HOF. She was named the Washington State Athlete of the Year in 1968.

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