By Maddie Strasen, Swimming World College Intern
Kelley Allen never stood still, sprinting up and down the pool deck to urge on his swimmers in each race. In fact, the popular club coach in Florida’s Tampa-St. Petersburg area proved he could not even sit still. Once, after a leg condition forced him to remain seated during a stretch of meets, Allen found a way around it – hauling a rolling office chair onto the deck so he could sit and wheel himself up and down the outside lane.
Four years after Coach Kelley and his girlfriend, Imari Shibata (both 49), were murdered by Shibata’s 18-year-old son, Benjamin Bishop, many of Allen’s former pupils still swim in his honor at the Kah20 Memorial Meet in Clearwater, Florida.
“His spirit will never die,†said Tampa Bay Aquatics coach Alex Richardson, who took over the program just weeks after Bishop, who had a history of psychological issues, burst into his mother’s room holding a sawed-off shotgun and senselessly took two lives. “Everyone involved in the program will always hold up the values, lessons and great inspiration Coach Kelley gave this team for many years.â€
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