Bonnie Adair was born in El Segundo

El Segundo, California

El Segundo is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located on the Santa Monica Bay, it was incorporated on January 18, 1917, and is one of the Beach Cities of Los Angeles County and part of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments...

, California

California

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 in 1952, and started swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 and diving

Diving

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

 at age 5. Adair set 35 National Age Group records and for 29 years had the fastest 50-meter freestyle record for an 8-year-old. Bonnie competed in 14 National Championships (her first at age 13) and 2 Olympic Trials in 1968 and 1972 (United States Olympic Trials (swimming)

United States Olympic Trials (swimming)

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). She was many times a National finalist in the 100 free and 100 fly. She was a member of a 400-meter relay that established 6 American records.

Adair attended UCLA and then went on to Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

 Law School. During law school, Bonnie was an assistant coach of the UCLA Women's Swim Team and was the head coach of Team Santa Monica (Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College

Santa Monica College is a two-year, public, junior college located in Santa Monica, California.Santa Monica College was first opened in 1929 as Santa Monica Junior College. Current enrollment is over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study...

) age group team. In 1979, Adair along with Clay Evans

Clay Evans

Clayton Evans is a former medley swimmer from Canada, who was born in South America to Canadian parents. He moved to Huntington Beach, California at age fifteen and was recruited by UCLA on a swimming and water polo scholarship...

 started the Santa Monica Masters Swim Team, known today as SCAQ (Southern California Aquatics - http://www.swim.net/SCAQ/). In 1997, Bonnie was selected as the United States Masters Coach of the Year and Western State Conference

Western State Conference

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Woman's Coach of the Year.