Peter Daland
Peter Daland (April 12, 1921 – October 20, 2014) was an International Swimming Hall of Fame coach from the United States, best-known for coaching the University of Southern California Trojans team to nine NCAA championships from 1957-1992. He was born in New York City to Elliot and Katherine Daland, but grew up in Philadelphia, where after college, he began a coaching career that spanned over 40 years. His father was slow to approve his choice of careers. Daland attended Harvard University as did his father, and grandfather, before he enlisted in the United States Army for World War II. After the war, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1948 and got his first coaching job at Rose Valley, Pennsylvania, where he won 8 straight Suburban League titles (1947–55). He founded and was the first coach of the Suburban Swim Club, now called the Suburban Seahawks Club in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania and served as an assistant coach to Bob Kiphuth at Yale University. In 1956, he decided to take Horace Greeley's advice and head west and become coach at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Recognizing the future of California swimming, and showing persistence, Daland endured rejection from fifty California clubs that turned down his application. Demonstrating his early success, in 1958, after two years on the USC coaching staff, he returned to Yale with 5 USC Freshmen and won the National AAU Team Title from the New Haven Swim Club. Collegiate coaching career 

For 35 years (1957–1992), Daland was the swimming coach for the USC Trojans, where he led the Trojans to 9 NCAA Championships. Harvard educated, and a graduate of Swarthmore, he was known for bringing the "bearing of an upper crust Eastern sophisticate" to the less stodgy USC campus, and would often come to the swim deck in a white shirt, coat and tie. He led teams to 14 AAU Men's National titles, and 2 AAU Women's National titles. He is the only coach to have won all three major national team championships—8 NCAA, 14 National AAU Men's, and 2 National AAU Women's (Los Angeles Athletic Club). Specializing in family dynasties, Daland had the good fortune of obtaining championship wins from the brothers Bottom, Devine, Orr, and the House brother and sister act. His Trojan teams won more than 160 dual meets with more than 100 individual titles. As of 1974, Daland's record boasted 183 individual national champions. Some of the most outstanding swimmers he mentored included four time gold medal winner John Naber and American record holders Dave Wharton and Mike O’Brien. Olympic coaching 
Daland also coached the U.S. women's swim team at the 1964 Olympics, where his swimmers won 15 of the 24 medals awarded in women's swim events. The women's team won six of eight events. He then coached the US men's team at the 1972 Olympics, where his men swimmers won 26 of 45 medals awarded in men's events. In those Olympics, Mark Spitz of the United States had a spectacular run, lining up for seven events, winning seven Olympic titles and setting seven world records. Outstanding Olympians coached by Daland included Roy Saari, Murray Rose, Jeff Float, Joe and Mike Bottom and Bruce and Steve Furniss. Swimming community roles 
Daland was also active in the swimming community via his roles/positions with FISU, the International University Sports Federation, and ASCA, the American Swimming Coaches Association. He was one of the founders of ASCA, and was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977. Daland served as a swimming consultant for Philips Petroleum, the sponsor of U. S. Senior Swimming from 1972-82. The pool of USC's Uytengsu Aquatics Center bears his name. Daland was also the founder of the Junior Swimmer newsletter, and co-founded the widely subscribed Swimming World Magazine. Originally little more than a mimeographed journal, Daland began Swimming World in the 1950's with Yale coach Bob Kiphuth who mentored him in his first College coaching assignment. Daland was married to former German top-class swimmer Ingrid Feuerstack. They had three children, Peter Jr., Bonnie, and Leslie. Leslie won a gold medal in the 900 meter freestyle at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow. Leslie now owns Daland Swim School, which was founded by Ingrid, in Thousand Oaks, California. On October 20, 2014, Peter died in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 93 of Alzheimer's disease. Honors and awards
1962 ASCA Coach of the Year
1964 Olympics Women's Swimming Team Coach for the USA
1972 Olympics Men's Swimming Head Coach for the USA
1977 AAU Swimming Award recipient

See also
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame

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American swimming coaches
USC Trojans swimming coaches
2014 deaths
1921 births
Sportspeople from New York City
Harvard University alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
Yale Bulldogs swimming coaches
Swarthmore College alumni
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Deaths from dementia in California