In the 1940s, some adults warned her that swimming wasn’t proper for women. Seven decades and 325 Masters records later, she’s glad she ignored them.
Gail Roper should have been terrified of swimming. At 17, she heard from a high school gym coach that she’d have chronic heart failure and might not be able to have children if she dared to swim a mile. “In the 1940s, women weren’t supposed to exert themselves,” she says. Now 89, she keeps fit in summer by swimming in the Russian River near her home in Healdsburg, Calif.
Ms. Roper grew up in Trenton, N.J., and taught herself to swim in the Delaware River. Unable to find a coach serious enough to work with her, she voraciously...
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