Former Newtown Square Swim Coach Honored by USA Swimming

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Frank Keefe.

Frank Keefe, the former coach at Suburban Swim Center in Newtown Square who spent more than 30 years as head coach at Yale University, has won the 2022 USA Swimming Award, writes Matthew DeGeorge for Swimming World Magazine.  

While at Suburban Swim Center, Keefe’s pupils included Olympic medalists Carl Robie and Tim McKee.  

At Yale, Keefe won 488 meets as coach of the Yale men’s and women’s teams. 

Keefe is a 1960 graduate of Villanova University and volunteered there and at La Salle University as an assistant well into his 70s. 

His name appears on the Frank Keefe Trophy, presented to the Ivy League women’s swimming and diving team champion. 

Keefe was an assistant coach on the U.S. Olympic team at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and the head manager at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.  

He was also head coach for Pan Am Games teams in 1975 and 1979 and an assistant for the U.S. at the 1978 World Championships.  

Keefe helped create USA Swimming in the late 1970s. 

He has been inducted to the American Swimming Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Villanova’s athletics hall of fame, and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. 

Read more about Frank Keefe in Swimming World.  

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