ON March 27 the exceptional Dr. Jane Katz will be amongst the latest Inductees in to The National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
At 67 years of age and as a World Class Swimmer for 50 years Jane Katz pushes the boundaries of achievement as she keeps on keeping on winning championships around the world. Dr. Katz will be inducted along with eight others and will be joining nine other swimmers–-amongst them Dara Torres, Mark Spitz, and Jason Lezak–as well the celebrity inductees Sandy Koufax, Hank Greenberg, Red Auerbach, and Howard Cosell. At precisely 10:30am the ceremonies begin at the Suffolk Jewish Community Center in Commack, NY.
It is a rarity for an inductee anywhere to be still active as an active competitor in a sport. But Dr Katz will be at the 13th European Maccabiah Games in Vienna, Austria in July 2011. She won four gold medals during the 2010 U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships and the 2009 World Senior Games, and had competed at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in Israel, won 13 gold medals at the 2008 Maccabiah Games, and was swimming at the 2008 Pan American Masters Maccabiah Swim Championships in Argentina. Additionally, remarkably there have been 34 All-American U.S. Masters Swimming titles, of which a astounding ten were long-distance championships.
And you may be interested to know that her love of synchronized swimming lead to the introduction of that sporting performance to the Olympic games when she was a member of the 1964 U.S. Synchronized Swimming Team at the Tokyo Olympics.
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