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The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest
Grand Central Publishing
November 2015
On Sale: October 27, 2015
ISBN: 1455523445
EAN: 9781455523443
Kindle: B00U6DNZU8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Sports
For readers of Laura Hillenbrand and The Boys in the
Boat:
The inspirational story of a group of impoverished
children
who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island
of
Maui took a group of underprivileged children mostly of
Japanese ancestry and, in three short years, transformed
them into Olympic champions. He called his plan the
"Three-Year Swim Club." None of the barefoot children had ever laid eyes on a
pool;
their only experience in water was playing naked in the
filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the
mountains and into the sugar cane fields. And the coach
knew
nothing about coaching and couldn't swim a lap to save
his
life. But, against all odds, and during a period of US
history marked by virulent racism against a backdrop of a
second global war, the boys embarked on an unlikely path
that that led them to become celebrated swimmers and
real-life American heroes.
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