This subcollection unedited footage from the documentary Coach. Coach highlights the highly successful career of Maui coach Soichi Sakamoto who trained swimmers such as the infamous Three-Year Swim Club, Bill Smith, Keo Nakama and others who went on and won medals in the Olympics. Such swimmers trained in a sugar cane irrigation ditch.
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The video contains interviews about the shutdown of the Puna Sugar Company (Olaa Sugar Company) and how it will affect the local credit union and...
This video contains a copy of a film reel recorded onto videotape. The reel contains footage of crowds around town for the 1941 Nationals, swimmers...
This video contains a copy of a film reel recorded onto videotape. The reel contains various footage of members of Coach Sakamoto's Three-Year Swim...
Interview with Alonzo "Lee" Priest the athletic director at Puʻunēnē at the time of Coach Sakamoto's Three-Year Swim Club recorded on July 2, 1984....
This video contains several takes of Chris Conybeare talking about plantations and irrigation ditches. Also includes footage of the water flowing...
This video includes photographs from the collection of Coach Sakamoto, taken in the early to mid 1900s on the island of Maui. Photographs include...