George Breen

George Breen first took up swimming seriously at the relatively late age of 17, but he went on to win 22 AAU championships and set six world records. His greatest performance came at the 1956 Olympics, where he lowered the world 1,500 freestyle record by 13 seconds. Unfortunately this was in the heats and he could not repeat this form in the final, where he finished third. At the 1959 Pan American Games he won gold in the 400 metres freestyle and silver in the 1500 metres freestyle. Breen attended Cortland State and later did graduate work at Indiana. He later became the head swim coach at Penn.