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Swimmers pool their support for Mount Rainier
facility
By Sandy Ringer
Seattle Times staff reporter
DES MOINES --- They are separated by more than eight decades, but
Ariana Kukors and Faith Callahan share a passion about the Mount
Rainier swimming pool and a conviction to help keep it open.
Kukors, a 20-year-old Auburn Mountainview graduate who competed at
Washington before the program folded, credits her training at the
pool the last seven years for helping her shatter the world record
and earn a gold medal in the women’s 200-meter individual
medley in July at the World Swimming Championships in Rome.
"This pool has been so important to the success I’ve had,"
said Kukors, who began swimming at age 5. "It’s absolutely an
amazing facility. It is absolutely crucial that this pool stays
alive."
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