Dick Hannula

Dick Hannula is a swimming coach in Tacoma, Washington who coached for Tacoma Swim Club, also known as TSC. He was the swimming coach at Lincoln High School from 1952-1959, then coach at Wilson High School from 1959-1983. The Wilson High School swimming pool is named the Dick Hannula Pool in his honor.During his time coaching, his students won 24 consecutive state championships, a total of 323 swim meets with no loss. In 1980, he was chosen as the National High School Swim Coach of the Year, was a 1987 Honor Coach in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and in 1990 was the commissioner of swimming for the Goodwill Games. A four-term president of the National Swimming Association, he coached the US National Swim Team in 1973, 1975 (in the Pan American Games), 1976, 1978, and 1985. He managed the national swim team in 1979, at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics. A member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Hannula became the assistant coach for The University of Puget Sound's men's and women's swim teams in the 2007-2008 season and coaches for Tacoma Swim Club on a regular basis. He resides in North Tacoma with his wife, Sylvia. He has four children. Hannula is of Finnish and Austrian origin.

Hannula is the author of Coaching Swimming Successfully. ISBN 0-7360-4519-8. ,The Swim Coaching Bible. ISBN 0-7360-3646-6.  and The Swim Coaching Bible, Volume II. Hannula is the inventor of Han's Paddles, the first "holed" paddles Template:Http://www.hanspaddles.com/.