Calder retires

Press, 7 July 1977, Page 36

Calder retires

PA Dunedin One of Dunedin’s Olympic swimming representatives, Allison Calder, has retired from all competitive swimming. Miss Calder, who started work with a Dunedin bank on Monday, has not swum competitively since she returned from Montreal last year. She said then that she : would take a spell out of I the pool before, deciding 'whether she would return to it.

“I’ve found I really haven’t missed it at all,” she said yesterday. The new job is not the only reason behind her decision., "I think. I’d had enough!

of it after the Games.” Miss Calder, who took over Jaynie Parkhouse’s New Zealand freestyle dominance at the 1975 national championships before the sudden emergence of Rebecca Perrott, went to the Olympics to compete in the 400 m and 800 m freestyle events.

She holds all Otago open freestyle records and the 200 m medley record, as well as 10 Otago age-group records. Miss Calder will not, however, be entirely lost to Dunedin swimming. “I’m going to get back into swimming in some way — I hope to help teach young kids ihow to swim,” she said.