He was an NCAA swimming and diving coach for 38 years, and the permanent imprint Richard Sybesma made was both on the kids he coached in college, and the thousands of children he taught how to swim.

It’s been 60 years since a group of women began swimming together for fun and exercise, back when the city of Laguna Woods didn’t even exist yet and their retirement community was still called Leisure ...

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