Joan McSheehy

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Joan McSheehy
Baltimore, Maryland
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
ClubWomen's Swimming Association

Joan McSheehy (July 22, 1913 – April 16, 1948), also known by her married name Joan Wilson Huffman, was an American competition

women's 100-meter backstroke
with a time of 1:23.2.

During her competitive career, she would set many national and sectional records.[2]

Biography

At age 13, she won her first accolade, when she came first in the 440-yeard junior title at Melrose. The following year, at the somerville YMCA, she won the New England women's senior backstroke championship.[3]

In 1929, at 15, she won a national backstroke championship in Chicago, and placed 3rd the 300-yeard medley title swim at the same event. She competed in the National A. A. U. outdoor women's swimming championships in Honolulu, with Albina Osipowich.[3] The next year she beat, by 0.2 seconds, the world record for the 75-yeard breaststroke, completing the distance in 53.6 seconds, 34th annual swimming meet of the Brookline Swimming Club.[4]

At the

women's 100-meter backstroke.[5] She was also on the winning medley-race team.[6]

After the Olympics McSheehy appeared with one of the early professional swimming tours in Boston, that also featured Eleanor Holm.[2] However, she gave up completive swimming in 1933, though she continued swimming for pleasure.[7]

McSheehy married sailor Wilson Huffman, from Luray, Virginia, in November 1945.[7][6] She Died 16 April 1948, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, of meningitis.[2][7]

References

  1. ^ "As East and West Prepare for Olympic Classic at Los Angeles Next Summer". The Pittsburgh Press. 1 May 1932. p. 25. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Joan McSheey Ex-N. E. Swim Champion, Dies". The Boston Globe. 16 April 1948. p. 38. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Two N. E. Girl Swimmers to Seek Titles in Honolulu". The Boston Globe. 13 July 1929. p. 10. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  4. ^ Sawyer, Ford (7 March 1930). "Joan McSheehy Sets New Mark". The Boston Globe. p. 32. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  5. ^ Stedler, Bob (20 April 1933). "Karper's Comment". The Buffalo News. p. 27. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Dog Grieving Self to Death". The Baltimore Sun. 29 April 1948. p. 24. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  7. ^ a b c "His Mistress Dead, Loyal Pet Dying, Too—Of Broken Heart". The Baltimore Sun. 29 April 1948. p. 36. Retrieved 17 August 2023.

External links

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