Anna Mae Gorman Lindberg

Anna Mae Gorman grew up on what is now Eighth Avenue in Homestead, close by the mill where her father worked. At age 11, she began swimming in the basement pool at the Carnegie Library nearby. Soon she moved up to the “big team” and started competing. Anna Mae qualified as an alternate on the 1932 Olympic team. She and teammate Lenore Kight traveled by train to Los Angeles to compete. After the Olympics, Anna Mae continued to swim for the Homestead relay team, which went undefeated in competition from 1931-34, garnering national championships. She married her swim team sweetheart Russell Lindberg. Only illness kept her from a spot on the 1936 Olympic team where teammate Lenore Kight added a bronze medal to the silver she had won in ’32. Anna Mae continued to live in Homestead and swim at the pool well into her 90s. She died in 2014 at the age of 98.