evanston township high school 1987 yearbook

“It was always very satisfying to beat New Trier, and the State meet was always the biggest meet of the year. Coach Burton was like a father to all of us, and it was an honor for me to be a part of such a great team. I didn’t know any of the other guys before I got there, but we were very unified as a team before too long. “So I was fairly new to swimming when I came to Evanston. “I cracked my vertebrae playing football when I was a 7th grader and that’s when I made my own choice to stop playing. “I was 14 or 15 years old when I first started swimming, and I just entered some swim meets on my own,” Alderson recalled. Not bad for someone who began his high school career at Chicago Latin and only participated in swimming on his own at first. Only two other Wildkit male swimmers - fellow Hall of Famers Dick Hanley and Mike Farmer - have been part of three state championship squads. Tom Alderson started high school at a place where there was no school-sponsored swim team.īut it didn’t take Alderson long to make a splash when he transferred to a place where there was a dynasty in the making.Īlderson was a major contributor to the Evanston swim teams that collected three straight Illinois High School Association state team titles under Hall of Fame coach Dobbie Burton, winning three gold medals and a silver in his 3-year ETHS career.

Evanston township high school 1987 yearbook