Bob Winslow was hired as the Belfast Area High School varsity boys swim coach in 1973. Back then, how meets were timed was far less sophisticated.

“Stopwatches,” said the 75-year-old Winslow. “You recorded the time with the three watches. If two times were the same out of the three, that was the official time. If there were three different times, it was the middle time. And they weren’t digital stopwatches. There were two or three hands on it. One would give you the seconds, one the tenth of a second and one the hundredth of a second.”

He has been hands-on with the program since stopwatches had hands. Suffice to say, it has been a long, storied and successful coaching career for the Belfast resident.

Last winter, Winslow wrapped up his 52nd season as the school’s boys swim coach. It wou

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