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Olympic Dreams Deferred

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by Madeline Pace, The Well

In 1979, Sue Walsh swam the fastest 100-meter backstroke in the world. Today, Walsh is the Rams Club Associate Executive Director of Scholarship and Legacy Gifts. Back then she graduated high school a year early to train for the 1980 Olympics, but her dreams were dashed when the U.