Elder Wisdom:
An Interview With Marion Olsen by Eloise Tweeten SANTA
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Marion Kane Elston, born Marion Olson, grew up in San Francisco and started swim- ming on the Russian River at age 3 near the family's summer home. By age 13, she started coach- ing the young- er girls on her San Francisco competitive
swim team,
Crystal Punch, to perform in their annu- al "Crystal Cades" fund- raising water show, and by age 16 she was coaching all the girls for this annual off- season performance.
After attending the
University of Hawaii and teaching elementary school in San Mateo, Marion married and was hired in 1954 by the San Francisco Recreation Department to coach synchro-
nized swimming four hours per week for $2.75/hour. That team's success grew into the San Francisco Merionettes
and the team received the first national championship title in 1960 followed by 19 consecu- tive high point titles, not to mention numerous other indi- vidual and team awards. Fast forward to 1981, when
Marion was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
According to the IHSOF website, Marion was
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"one of the most successful coaches in any sport" and "the world's first great synchro- nized swimming coach" who "did most to create the quality and class that gave her sport the world recognition that led to World Championships and Olympic acceptance." Now, 65 years after her humble coaching beginnings, Marion is still going strong at her pool in Santa Rosa's Rincon Valley, Oak Park, with students rang- ing in age from 6 to 89! While Marion is best known for her gifts at coaching syn- chronized swimming, having developed 51 National AAU Synchronized Swimming champions with 303 first place national and interna- tional awards by 1981, she has also coached volleyball, track and field, kick ball, and boys soccer, and has no par- ticular favorite. When asked what led her to coaching other girls on her competitive team, she simply replied, "you just do it" when you're asked to. Her own success as an athlete began quite unexpectedly: at age 10, her older sister was the one who wanted to swim competitively and she tagged along. But it was Marion who went on to participate in 13 Senior National meets and become an Olympic Team finalist.
What is it that makes Marion such a great coach? First, she understands the basic ele- ments of body movement, and credits both this understand- ing and intuitiveness in being
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able to pick out the elements that will "get to the heart of what will make someone bet- ter."
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parents, Ethyl and Ed Olson, for supporting her athletic and coaching careers. Her mother, Ethyl , was the "bedrock of the family"
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