{"id":788,"date":"2013-04-24T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T14:29:43","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-coach-wilmot-babs-babcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/04\/24\/athletic-hall-of-fame-coach-wilmot-babs-babcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame: Coach Wilmot \u201cBabs\u201d Babcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/Wilmot-Babcock1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-809\" title=\"Wilmot Babcock\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/Wilmot-Babcock1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/Wilmot-Babcock1.png 329w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/files\/2013\/04\/Wilmot-Babcock1-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a>Coach Wilmot \u201cBabs\u201d Babcock certainly knew how to win, accumulating an astounding 341-47-2 record over the course of 20 years. After starting the Williston swimming program in 1951, Coach Babcock took the team to 15 New England Championships \u2014 11 of them in a row. This legacy also produced 15 national prep champions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one\u2019s a no-brainer. Just looking at Bab&#8217;s record speaks volumes by itself,\u201d wrote Paul Doty \u201864, one of Mr. Babcock\u2019s former swimmers. \u201cBut what you may not know is how advanced he was for his time. We were doing pulley weights before Doc Councilman at Indiana was!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Coach Babcock had attended Springfield College as a wrestler, and did graduate work at Dartmouth College, and Harvard and Boston University. He was named business manager at Williston Academy in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a \u201clegend\u201d by those who knew him, Coach Babcock\u2019s success lay in his ability to both attract and develop some of the best swimmers in New England, said Rev. Dr. Theodore Babcock, who swam for the coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Williston&#8217;s absolute dominance in swimming during his coaching years is a testament to Babs\u2019 skill as a coach and leader,\u201d Rev. Babcock wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach Babcock built a swimming dynasty at Williston,\u201d agreed Robert Tullis &#8217;73. \u201cI&#8217;m sure his teams&#8217; records will qualify him for a spot in the Hall of Fame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Babcock passed away on May 29, 1978 and the school\u2019s pool was named in his honor.<\/p>\n<p><em><em>The Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony, dinner, and reception will be held on Saturday, June 8, 2013. Register to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williston.com\/sslpage.aspx?pid=2815\">here.<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Wilmot \u201cBabs\u201d Babcock certainly knew how to win, accumulating an astounding 341-47-2 record over the course of 20 years. After starting the Williston swimming program in 1951, Coach Babcock took the team to 15 New England Championships \u2014 11 of them in a row. This legacy also produced 15 national prep champions. &#8220;This one\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2013\/04\/24\/athletic-hall-of-fame-coach-wilmot-babs-babcock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athletic Hall of Fame: Coach Wilmot \u201cBabs\u201d Babcock<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[313,4,3],"tags":[317,321,323,322],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletic-hall-of-fame","category-personal-results","category-team-scores","tag-athletic-hall-of-fame-2","tag-coach-wilmot-babs-babcock","tag-swimming","tag-williston-swimming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}