Emily+B's+book+report+(March)

Name: Date: Reading Mr. Jacobson

=Biography of a Famous Woman=


 * Directions: Each section must be 1 paragraph!**

I chose to research on Trudy Ederle ___, because she is a famous swimmer. She is one of the first girls on the 1924 girls olympic swim team.Trudy Ederle beat the two best girls in America in her first swim. Ederle was part of the WSA. {Women's Swimming Assocation.}__ __Trudy Ederle is still one of the most famous swimmer's today.

This famous women was born Trudy Ederle was born on October 23, 1905. She had a happy childhood. She got measles which caused her to become partly deaf. Ederle was a very rich child. When she was born she was her parents dream. Trudy was the youngest of three children. Sadly,____She died on November 30,200__3 at the age of 98.

__Her early years were spent__ __At the beach. Trudy was too young to swim.Her father taught her to swim by dangling her from a rope off a bridge.Two years later she swam for the WSA. She usually was swimming in meets. When she wasen't then she was swimming at the WSA pool. She spent most of her time with her older sister, Meg. She was usually in the water, doing her favorite thing, SWIMMING!

Her later years were spent Training to swim the English Channel. She tried twice using two different coaches. This was when she was eighteen. After she sucessfully swam the Channel,Trudy was also spending lots of time around people. Trudy did not realize she was becoming famous. When she got older she taught swimming to children.This is how here later years were spent.__

__Her accomplishments include__ _ Being the first girl to swim the English Channel. She shattered the world record by two hours. She invented the bikini{, but did not put the trade mark on it.}.She also invented water tight goggles. Trudy Ederle changed the mind of the world that women were not only equal to men in sports ability, but also could be better then men in any sport. But most importantly she accomplished her own dreams._