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Pioneer Athletics Hall of Fame

John Benedick

  • Class
    1973
  • Induction
    2022
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Swimming & Diving, Men's Water Polo
  • Four-time All-American Team Captain
  • All-America honoree in five events in total
  • Swam on national runner-up 400 Freestyle Relay team
  • Runner-up in the NCAA National Collegiate Championships in the 50 yard freestyle and 100 yard breaststroke
  • Far West Conference champion in 50 Freestyle
  • Inducted into Collegiate Water Polo Hall of Fame in 2012
  • 2019 CSCAA Ben Franklin Award Winner
  • Coached men's water polo and men's and women's swimming for 22 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Two-time New England Intercollegiate Swimming Association Coach of the Year
  • Spent 22 years as an athletic administrator at MIT, retiring in 2019 as Senior Associate AD
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