Donna de Varona

TV sports commentator; Olympic swimming champion; Select Director of the Board, U.S. Soccer Foundation Joined CSAC in 2007 Member of CSAC subject subcommittee

From 1960 to 1964, de Varona won 37 national swimming championships and two Olympic gold medals. In 1965, she joined ABC Sports and has since covered 17 Olympics as a reporter. In her 1976-1978 role as consultant to the U.S. Senate on the Amateur Sports Act, she was a proponent of the landmark Title IX legislation. “I will always be an activist,” she once said. In October 2004, de Varona was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY.