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Carl Johansson, Millikin’s first swim coach, coached the Big Blue Swim Team from 1969 to 1975. During that time, he coached at least seven CCIW individual champions, his team won two CCIW championships (1972, 1973), and reached one Top 15 NAIA finish. Included among his student athletes was Marcia Morey ‘78, who won seven national championships, was captain of several USA national teams, including the 1976 Olympic team, and was named to the Millikin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992. She was the first woman to swim for Millikin. Johansson developed the Decatur Swim Club into an outstanding group, which helped encourage many individuals to join Millikin and the swim team. After coaching at the Big Blue, Johansson coached women’s swimming at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1977 to 1992.
Between them, Carl and his wife, Georgia DeFever, have two daughters, two grandsons and one granddaughter.
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