Gertrude Ederle

                Gertrude Ederle was the daughter of German immigrants. When she was a child, her father taught his children how to swim at a New Jersey beach. Gertrude was a natural. She got so good that she dropped out of school to race competitively. She won her first race at Read more…

  Gertrude was born on Oct. 23, 1905 in New York City to German immigrants.  She loved to swim as a girl and dropped out of school as a teenager to train as a competitive swimmer.  She joined the Women’s Swimming Association.  She invented the “eight beat crawl” which was Read more…