Nina Harmar Thompson '63

A member of the 1960 and 1964 U.S. Olympic swim teams, Nina Thompson holds a fifth-place finish in the 100-meter backstroke. In 1962, she was a member of the Pan American Olympic team, and between 1961 and 1965 she won eight national swimming championships: four individual and four relays. Mary Kelly Spitzer, Thompson’s coach for much of her swimming career, said: ”One of Nina’s qualities was that even while she was very young, she maintained a balanced perspective on her activities and interests of her life. During those years of devotion to swimming, she had also her allegiance to her school life..but she more than managed to keep afloat in both worlds without drowning.”