Margaret and the late Paul Savage were the first swimming and diving coaches at Simon Fraser University. The dictionary describes dynasty as a length of time in which one is in power. Spell it the SFU swimming program.
Our two coaching inductees created a remarkable dynasty, coaching members of their team to international prominence over more than two decades. They guided SFU teams to ten men’s and three women’s NAIA championships and along the way he was named NAIA Coach of the Year five times and was inducted into the NAIA Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 1982.
She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985. Together they coached or managed 27 Canadian National teams at the Olympics, World championships, Commonwealth and World University Games. More than 30 of their swimmers competed internationally and two of their swimmers, Gary MacDonald and Bruce Robertson, were Olympic medalists.
The diving and swimming pool at SFU is named in their honor. Paul unfortunately passed away in 2002 after a lengthy illness.
