Meet Bob Sherman, a 97-year-old who continues to defy age with his passion for diving. For nearly a century, Sherman has been taking the plunge, making the diving board his second home and maintaining a rigorous routine despite his advancing years.
He has done it thousands of times. Even as he approaches the age of 97, walking up the ladder to his beloved diving board is a well-worn routine."It's a reflex, so I don't have to think," Bob Sherman said recently at his family's longtime swim school in Lafayette, the Sherman Swim School. "I'm in the air and everything's a reflex.
"He's something to keep up with," Shirley Sherman said with a smile. "He's a go, go, go."Bob Sherman founded the Sherman Swim School in Lafayette and, of course, made sure there was a diving pool. His son, Steve Sherman, an All-American diver and who competed in college for Brigham Young University, took over his father's business and has now become his father's coach. Of course, the diving board is always there for Dad.
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