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'''Catharine Ball Condon''' (born September 30, 1951), née '''Catharine Northcutt Ball''', is an American former competition ], Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. At the ], she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay team. Ball is a former ] holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and is remembered as a teenage star who was the dominant female ] swimmer of her generation.
'''Catie Ball''' (born ]) is a retired ] and ] ] from the ], who won her first Olympic medal at the ].


== Early years ==
At the ] Olympic Games, Ball was at her best. She ruled in the women's womens relay, and won gold in the 400m. During the ] she was one of the best swimmers from the United States. It should also be noted that Ball attended the ].


Ball was born in ], in 1951.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://flasportshof.org/fshofmember/catie-ball/ |title=Catie Ball |website=Florida Sports Hall of Fame |language=en-US |access-date=September 29, 2018 }}</ref> As a teenager, she swam for the J.E.T.S. swim team in ] (AAU) competition, the Florida Yacht Club, and attended ] in Jacksonville.<ref name=fshofprofile>Florida Sports Hall of Fame, Inductees, . Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref><ref name=frenette7232011>Gene Frenette, "," ''The Florida Times-Union'' (July 22, 2011). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>
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In August 1966, she set a new American record of 2:44.8 in the 200-meter breaststroke at the AAU national championships, shattering the previous mark by almost three seconds.<ref>Associated Press, "," ''The Lacrosse Tribune'', p. 17 (August 21, 1966). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> In December 1966, she tied the world record of 1:15.7 in the 100-meter breaststroke at the international swim meet at the Hall of Fame pool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<ref name=ap12261966>Associated Press, "," ''The New York Times'', p. S38 (December 29, 1966). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>


While swimming for the Lee High School Generals swim team, she won the 1967 Florida 2A state high school championships in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke events, setting Florida state records in both.<ref name=secola7042010>Jamie Secola, "," ''Pensacola News-Journal'' (July 4, 2010). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref><ref name=fhsaa>'''', Florida High School Athletic Association, Tallahassee, Florida, pp. 13 & 15 (2014). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> Her Florida record in the 100-yard breaststroke stood for eleven years.<ref name=secola7042010/><ref name=fhsaa/>
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== International swimming career ==
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Ball set a new world record in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Santa Clara invitational swim meet in July 1967.<ref name=ap7101967>Associated Press, "," ''The New York Times'', p. 41 (July 10, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> At the ] in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ball won two individual gold medals in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and a third in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay in which she swam the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team of ], Ball, ] and Wendy Fordyce.<ref name=ap8011967>Associated Press, "," ''The New York Times'', p. S36 (August 1, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref><ref name=rose8021967>Murray Rose, "," ''The Evening News'', p. 4D (August 2, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> In the process, she set new world records in all three events.<ref name=rose8021967/> During 1967, she set world records in all four (two metric, two non-metric) individual breaststroke events as a 15-year-old.<ref>"," ''The New York Times'', p. S121 (December 24, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>

==1968 Mexico City Olympics==

Ball was the reigning world record holder in all four breaststroke distances and bettered her own world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in August 1968.<ref name=upi8271968>United Press International, "," ''The New York Times'', p. 50 (August 27, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>

Despite having to overcome ] and missing several scheduled meets in early 1968,<ref>"," ''St. Petersburg Times'', p. 2C (February 10, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref><ref name=ap10231968>Associated Press, "," ''The Evening Independent'', p. 2C (October 23, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> Ball was the favorite to win three gold medals at the 1968 Olympics.<ref name=secola7042010/><ref>Frank Litsky, "," ''The New York Times'', p. S17 (October 6, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref><ref>Bob Ottum, "," ''Sports Illustrated'' (September 16, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> She arrived at the ] in Mexico City, however, with a case of ].<ref name=secola7042010/>

She won her only Olympic medal, a gold, as a member of the winning U.S. ] team,<ref name=dboprofile>databaseOlympics.com, Athletes, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105194813/http://databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BALLCAT01 |date=January 5, 2010 }}. Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> alongside ] (backstroke), ] (butterfly) and ] (freestyle).<ref>Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, . Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> In the ] final, Ball led close to the finish but physical exhaustion overwhelmed her,<ref name=secola7042010/> and she finished fifth.<ref>"," ''The New York Times'', p. S2 (October 20, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> She was too ill to swim in the subsequent preliminary heats of the 200-meter breaststroke and was scratched from the event.<ref name=secola7042010/><ref name=ap10231968/>

== College coaching career ==

After the Olympics, Ball received a special scholarship to attend the ] in Gainesville, Florida,<ref>Associated Press, "," ''Sarasota Journal'', p. 16 (January 22, 1969). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> but effectively dropped out of competition swimming because there were no women's college swim teams at the time and because of her desire to lead a more "normal" life.<ref name=secola7042010/>

As a senior at the University of Florida, she was hired by athletic director ] to be the first head coach of the newly organized women's ] team in ] (AIAW) competition during the 1972&ndash;73 school year.<ref name=fshofprofile/> In their first year of intercollegiate competition, Ball's Lady Gators swimmers were undefeated in dual meets and placed second at the AIAW national championship during her single-season tenure.<ref name=fshofprofile/>

Ball graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in education in 1973.<ref>''University of Florida Alumni Directory'', University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (2000).</ref>

== Life after swimming ==

Ball currently resides in ].<ref name=secola7042010/> In the time since retiring from competition swimming at the age of 17, she has been a college swim coach, ] teacher, junior swim coach, housewife and ].<ref name=secola7042010/><ref>United Press International, "," ''The Palm Beach Post'', p. D6 (January 28, 1974). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref> Ball and her business partner have operated a successful interior decorating business, "Beside the Point," for the past decade.<ref name=frenette7232011/> She and her husband Tom Condon have three children and two grandchildren.<ref name=secola7042010/>

She was inducted into the ] in 1976,<ref name=ishofprofile>{{cite web |url=http://www.ishof.org/catie-ball.html |title=Catie Ball (USA) |website=ISHOF.org |publisher=] |access-date=March 14, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110121/http://www.ishof.org/catie-ball.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the ] in 2010.<ref name=fshofprofile/><ref name=secola7042010/>

== World records ==

'''Women's 100-meter breaststroke'''

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! width=50 | Time
! width=125 | Date
! width=230 | Event
! width=180 | Location
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| '''1:16.40'''
| July 15, 1966
| Cady Way Pool Summer Invite
| ]<ref name=ap12261966/>
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| '''1:15.60'''
| December 28, 1966
| ] international swim meet
| ]<ref name=ap12261966/>
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| '''1:14.80'''
| July 31, 1967
| ]
| ]<ref name=ap8011967/>
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| '''1:14.60'''
| August 19, 1967
| ] National Outdoor Championships
| ]<ref name=nyt8221967>"," ''The New York Times'' (August 22, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>
|-
| '''1:14.20'''
| August 25, 1968
| ]
| ]<ref name=upi8271968/>
|}

'''Women's 200-meter breaststroke'''

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! width=50 | Time
! width=125 | Date
! width=230 | Event
! width=180 | Location
|-
| '''2:40.50'''
| July 9, 1967
| ] Invitational Swim Meet
| ]<ref name=ap7101967/>
|-
| '''2:39.50'''
| August 20, 1967
| ] National Outdoor Championships
| ]<ref name=nyt8221967/>
|-
| '''2:38.50'''
| August 26, 1968
| ]
| ]<ref name=upi8271968/>
|}

'''Women's 4×100-meter medley relay'''

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center"
! width=50 | Time
! width=125 | Date
! width=230 | Event
! width=180 | Location
|-
| '''4:30.00'''
| July 30, 1967
| ]
| ]<ref name=ap8011967/>
|-
| '''4:28.10'''
| September 14, 1968
| United States Olympic team exhibition
| ]<ref>Associated Press, "," ''The New York Times'' (September 16, 1968). Retrieved November 10, 2014.</ref>
|}

Note: All record times and locations are sourced to USA Swimming's list of world records.<ref>USASwimming, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107173111/http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/364341b1-2973-4439-a446-9620a068a9cf/women_lcm_toptimes.pdf |date=November 7, 2014 }}. Retrieved November 7, 2014.</ref>

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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Latest revision as of 01:34, 26 October 2024

American swimmer (born 1951) This article is about the American swimmer. For the British rower, see Katie Ball. For the British journalist, see Katy Balls.

Catie Ball
Catie Ball in 1967
Personal information
Full nameCatharine Northcutt Ball
Nickname"Catie"
National team United States
Born (1951-09-30) September 30, 1951 (age 73)
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight128 lb (58 kg)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke, medley
ClubJ.E.T.S.
College teamUniversity of Florida
(Head coach)
Medal record
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City 4×100 m medley relay
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1967 Winnipeg 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 1967 Winnipeg 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 1967 Winnipeg 4×100 m medley relay

Catharine Ball Condon (born September 30, 1951), née Catharine Northcutt Ball, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay team. Ball is a former world record holder in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and is remembered as a teenage star who was the dominant female breaststroke swimmer of her generation.

Early years

Ball was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1951. As a teenager, she swam for the J.E.T.S. swim team in Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) competition, the Florida Yacht Club, and attended Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville.

In August 1966, she set a new American record of 2:44.8 in the 200-meter breaststroke at the AAU national championships, shattering the previous mark by almost three seconds. In December 1966, she tied the world record of 1:15.7 in the 100-meter breaststroke at the international swim meet at the Hall of Fame pool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

While swimming for the Lee High School Generals swim team, she won the 1967 Florida 2A state high school championships in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke events, setting Florida state records in both. Her Florida record in the 100-yard breaststroke stood for eleven years.

International swimming career

Catie Ball in the 1960s

Ball set a new world record in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Santa Clara invitational swim meet in July 1967. At the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ball won two individual gold medals in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events, and a third in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay in which she swam the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team of Kendis Moore, Ball, Ellie Daniel and Wendy Fordyce. In the process, she set new world records in all three events. During 1967, she set world records in all four (two metric, two non-metric) individual breaststroke events as a 15-year-old.

1968 Mexico City Olympics

Ball was the reigning world record holder in all four breaststroke distances and bettered her own world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in August 1968.

Despite having to overcome mononucleosis and missing several scheduled meets in early 1968, Ball was the favorite to win three gold medals at the 1968 Olympics. She arrived at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, however, with a case of influenza.

She won her only Olympic medal, a gold, as a member of the winning U.S. 4×100-meter medley relay team, alongside Kaye Hall (backstroke), Ellie Daniel (butterfly) and Susan Pedersen (freestyle). In the 100-meter breaststroke final, Ball led close to the finish but physical exhaustion overwhelmed her, and she finished fifth. She was too ill to swim in the subsequent preliminary heats of the 200-meter breaststroke and was scratched from the event.

College coaching career

After the Olympics, Ball received a special scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, but effectively dropped out of competition swimming because there were no women's college swim teams at the time and because of her desire to lead a more "normal" life.

As a senior at the University of Florida, she was hired by athletic director Ray Graves to be the first head coach of the newly organized women's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) competition during the 1972–73 school year. In their first year of intercollegiate competition, Ball's Lady Gators swimmers were undefeated in dual meets and placed second at the AIAW national championship during her single-season tenure.

Ball graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in education in 1973.

Life after swimming

Ball currently resides in Pensacola, Florida. In the time since retiring from competition swimming at the age of 17, she has been a college swim coach, kindergarten teacher, junior swim coach, housewife and interior decorator. Ball and her business partner have operated a successful interior decorating business, "Beside the Point," for the past decade. She and her husband Tom Condon have three children and two grandchildren.

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1976, and the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

World records

Women's 100-meter breaststroke

Time Date Event Location
1:16.40 July 15, 1966 Cady Way Pool Summer Invite Winter Park, Florida
1:15.60 December 28, 1966 ISHOF international swim meet Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1:14.80 July 31, 1967 Pan American Games Winnipeg, Manitoba
1:14.60 August 19, 1967 AAU National Outdoor Championships Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1:14.20 August 25, 1968 United States Olympic Trials Los Angeles, California

Women's 200-meter breaststroke

Time Date Event Location
2:40.50 July 9, 1967 Santa Clara Invitational Swim Meet Santa Clara, California
2:39.50 August 20, 1967 AAU National Outdoor Championships Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2:38.50 August 26, 1968 United States Olympic Trials Los Angeles, California

Women's 4×100-meter medley relay

Time Date Event Location
4:30.00 July 30, 1967 Pan American Games Winnipeg, Manitoba
4:28.10 September 14, 1968 United States Olympic team exhibition Colorado Springs, Colorado

Note: All record times and locations are sourced to USA Swimming's list of world records.

See also

References

  1. "Catie Ball". Florida Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  2. ^ Florida Sports Hall of Fame, Inductees, Catie Ball (2010). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  3. ^ Gene Frenette, "Where are they now? Olympic swimmer Catie Ball-Condon," The Florida Times-Union (July 22, 2011). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  4. Associated Press, "Little Catie Ball, 14, Sets Swim Record," The Lacrosse Tribune, p. 17 (August 21, 1966). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  5. ^ Associated Press, "Catie Ball Equals World Swim Mark; Her 1:15.7 Ties Record in Breast-Stroke Event," The New York Times, p. S38 (December 29, 1966). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  6. ^ Jamie Secola, "Hall of Fame induction cements Ball-Condon's swimming legacy," Pensacola News-Journal (July 4, 2010). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  7. ^ FHSAA Girls Swimming & Diving 2014–15 Championship Records, Florida High School Athletic Association, Tallahassee, Florida, pp. 13 & 15 (2014). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  8. ^ Associated Press, "4 Swim Records Topple On The Coast," The New York Times, p. 41 (July 10, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  9. ^ Associated Press, "Spitz and Catie Ball Shatter World Swim Records at Pan-American Games," The New York Times, p. S36 (August 1, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  10. ^ Murray Rose, "American Swimmers Garner 28 Titles," The Evening News, p. 4D (August 2, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  11. "Swimming; Pan Am Games," The New York Times, p. S121 (December 24, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  12. ^ United Press International, "Catie Ball Clips World Swim Mark," The New York Times, p. 50 (August 27, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  13. "Illness Sidelines Swimmer Ball," St. Petersburg Times, p. 2C (February 10, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  14. ^ Associated Press, "U.S.–Yugoslavia in Cage Finals," The Evening Independent, p. 2C (October 23, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  15. Frank Litsky, "U.S. Expected to Win the Most Medals (112) and the Most Gold Medals (43); Major Hopes In Swimming And in Track," The New York Times, p. S17 (October 6, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  16. Bob Ottum, "The Encore Will be in Mexico," Sports Illustrated (September 16, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  17. databaseOlympics.com, Athletes, Catie Ball Archived January 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  18. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, United States Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  19. "U.S. Swimmers Register Sweep in Women's 100-Meter Olympic Free-Style," The New York Times, p. S2 (October 20, 1968). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  20. Associated Press, "Florida To Seek Catie Ball," Sarasota Journal, p. 16 (January 22, 1969). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  21. University of Florida Alumni Directory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (2000).
  22. United Press International, "Catie Ball Still Active in Swimming," The Palm Beach Post, p. D6 (January 28, 1974). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  23. "Catie Ball (USA)". ISHOF.org. International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
  24. ^ "A.A.U. Swim Champions," The New York Times (August 22, 1967). Retrieved November 7, 2014.
  25. Associated Press, "Olympians Better 3 Swim Records; U.S. Team Members Surpass World, 2 U.S. Relay Marks," The New York Times (September 16, 1968). Retrieved November 10, 2014.
  26. USASwimming, Women's Records Archived November 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 7, 2014.

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Records
Preceded byGalina Prozumenshchikova Women's 100-meter breaststroke
world record-holder (long course)
December 28, 1966 – September 2, 1972 		Succeeded byCathy Carr
Preceded byGalina Prozumenshchikova Women's 200-meter breaststroke
world record-holder (long course)
July 9, 1967 – April 7, 1971 		Succeeded byYuliya Bogdanova


Catie Ball – Championships, awards and honors
Pan American Champions in Women's 100 m breaststroke
Pan American Champions in Women's 200 m breaststroke
Pan American champions in women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
1968 USA Olympic swimming team
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