Sport: Casual Champ

Ray Cone was not trying to turn his daughter into an athlete. Cone, a safety director for a Teterboro, N.J. factory, taught six year-old Carin to swim for a perfectly prosaic reason: he did not want to worry when the family went holidaying on the Jersey shore. But Ray Cone knew an athlete when he saw one. Little Carin took to the water so naturally that he sent her to a swimming coach to find out how good she really was. Today, at 16, Carin is good enough to hold all...

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