Don Schollander

Term 2

Week 2

Topic: famous swimmers  

Purpose: about a famous swimmer

Audience: The world

Title: Don Schollander

Facts about Don schollander:

Full name:  Donald Arthur Schollander

Nationality: United States

Nickname: Don don

Born:  30th 1946

Height: 5 ft 11 in 1.80 m

Weight: 174 lb (79 kg)

Sport: swimming Club: Santa Clara Swim Club

College team: Yale university

Don: He got married  

Don Schollander full name is Donald Arthur Schollander. He was born in april the 30th 1946. Don is an  american competition swimmer. He is an olympic champion and a world record holder. Don won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 and 1968 summer olympics. With five gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Olympics. He won four gold medals in tokyo.

Schollander was born in  Charlotte north carolina and learned competitive swimming from his uncle, Newt Perry, who ran a swim school in Florida. As a boy Don moved with his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon. Although his first sporting passion was football, he was too small to compete in high school football. Instead, he joined Lake Oswego High School's swim team, and in 1960, helped lead the team to an Oregon state swimming championship as a freshman.