Paul Bergen is an Olympic

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coach from the United States. He has coached in the USA and Canada, winning coach of the year honors in both countries in different years.Olympic and Hall of Fame Coach Paul Bergen and Katie Hoff's Coach Paul Yetter Talk About the Common Traits of a Champion
, Swimming World Magazine, 2006-12-22; retrieved 2012-01-18 He was inducted into the

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as an Honor Coach in 1988.Bergen's bio page
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website (www.ishof.org); retrieved 2011-01-18 He has coached swimmers to 21

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records. Among the athletes he has coached are:

Deena Deardurff Deena Diane Deardurff (born May 8, 1957), also known by her married name Deena Schmidt, is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and former college swim coach. Swimming Deardurff swam for the Cinci ...

Tracy Caulkins Tracy Anne Stockwell, Medal of the Order of Australia, OAM, (born January 11, 1963), née Tracy Anne Caulkins, is an American former competition swimming (sport), swimmer, three-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time world champion, and former w ...

and

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. He has coached with the

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in Ohio, Nashville Aquatic Club in Tennessee, the

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, Tualatin Hills in Oregon, and Etobicoke in Ontario, Canada. In 2010,

revealed that Bergen had sexually abused her from the time she was 11 until she stopped his abuse at the age of 15. As a result of Deardurff's revelations, Tulatin Hills Swim Club removed Bergen's name from its premier swimming event in 2013. He served on USA coaching staffs to

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in 1975, 1978 and 1982, and with Canada in 1986. He was an Olympic coach in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000.

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