Malcolm has quite a bit in common with Superman; he is an interplanetary traveler and swims faster than a speeding Dolphin. (He was transferred to his "parent's" care in Buffalo NY by a specialized Aliens Witness Protection Program after being "left" on the blue desert Planet Oceana (not Oceania - that's the Pacific Islands).

He learned to swim "human style" at about age 5.  When he was 11, he joined an AAU team, the "Delmar Dolphins". He earned "All-American" honors in his senior year after a summer of swimming with the Jack Nelson swim camp in Ft. Lauderdale.

 

Malcolm went to Harvard College and became their sprinter. From his sophomore year on, he did not lose a single race in the 50 while competing on the east coast (if you wanted to beat him, you better get under 20.5).  He competed in Div I NCAA's every year while there.  In the summers of "76" & "77" he came to Hawaii and started swimming for Punahou Aquatics under Steve Borowski (now coaching Kona Aquatics) and went to nationals for a couple of summers with the likes of Chris Woo, Kathy Shipman, Brett Phillips, Janey Cooper, Daniel Arakaki and others.  In college, he was All-American in the 50 free and relays at the 1978 long beach NCAA's and Eastern 50 free champion for a couple of years.  He also was in the top 2 or 3 in the 100 fly, 100 back, 200 free, and 100 free at the Eastern Champs.

 

After college, he moved to LA and started swimming with Caltech Masters and Pasadena Athletic Club (where he also coached from 1984).  Caltech Masters coached from on deck, PAC from in the water.  He attended masters nationals every couple of years and was relatively successful but never won top honors in any event.  (He also worked as a lecturer at Griffith Observatory and was the test engineering manager for Beckman-Coulter as a software engineer.)

 

Malcolm moved to Maui to swim and windsurf (or is it windsurf and swim?) in 2000. He also came to coach swimming.  He started coaching Maui Dolphins & Seabury Hall in 2001; about the same time he went to Masters Nationals and won 5 of 6 events (50 free, 50 fly, 50 back, 100 free, 100 fly, and 200 free).  He served as Maui VP for HMSA for a couple of years and did the newsletter.  Malcolm was voted Maui News High School coach of the year with Seabury Hall in 2001-2 & 2003-4.  Malcolm manages to find time to do computer consulting and he continues to swim both masters ocean swims and age group USA-S pool meets. He organizes ocean swims for Maui Masters, and is the Age-Group chair position running the computers, keeping equipment, and tracking records for MAGSA and High School.  He participates every year in the Maui Channel Swim relays and has swum the channel solo.

Malcolm created a swimming tide calendar for Makena swimmers with Don Bloom's beautiful TropicalLight Photography. 

He will keep this activity up until he runs into the shark "that's going to gobble me up some day". Don't worry about that happening though, because he's out there most Sunday mornings with his friends, one of which is protecting him with his massive fingernails that are capable of ripping the peel off an orange - (but that's another story).