Two USMS Members in MISHOF 2024 Class

Two USMS members will be part of the Masters International Swimming Hall of Fame’s 2024 induction class, the International Swimming Hall of Fame announced Friday.

Puget Sound Masters member Charlotte Davis and Sarasota Sharks Masters member Diann Uustal were part of the eight-member class. They’ll be inducted during the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore next summer alongside the 2025 induction class.

Davis and Uustal are being recognized for their outstanding swimming accomplishments.

Davis, 74, has set 37 AQUA (formerly FINA) Masters world records and 91 USMS records, largely in freestyle and IM events. She received the 2006 David Yorzyk Memorial Award, which was given to the most outstanding performer in the 400 IM at USMS’s Spring Nationals until it was discontinued in 2010.

Davis’s competitive career began in synchronized swimming, joining her first team at age 8. She went on to become the head coach for the U.S.’s synchronized swimming team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and assistant coach and team leader at the next two Games. In 1996, her athletes won two gold medals and one silver medal. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2014 for her coaching success.

She turned to Masters swimming and has experienced success since.

“It’s a social outlet as well as an athletic outlet,” she said in a SWIMMER article in 2016. “Being in the water offers big health benefits.”

Uustal, 77, has set 43 AQUA (formerly FINA) Masters world records and 140 USMS records, largely in freestyle and backstroke events.

She has overcome many challenges in order to succeed.

In 2003, she was in a car accident that severely damaged her spinal cord. The injury was bad enough that doctors said she might never walk or race again. A fall in 2008 left her with severely injured her hamstrings and broke her arm and shoulder.

“I don’t give the injuries power,” she said in a SWIMMER article in 2013. “I stay disciplined in my swimming. I’m grateful to be back in the water!”

Uustal credits her grandmother for teaching her how to swim, starting her lifelong passion.

“She more than introduced me to what it’s like to be free in and love the water,” Uustal said in the SWIMMER article from 2013.

This story will be updated.