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PDR swim team coach. In 1971, Ellis formed the PDR ("Pride, Determination, Resilience" or "Philadelphia Department of Recreation") swim team at the Marcus Foster Recreation Center in Nicetown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia. The team is recognized as being the first African-American swim team in the country, and Ellis is credited with helping ...
In the film, the inner city black teenagers coached by a black man encounter nasty prejudice when they go up against a white coach and his swimmers from the affluent suburbs. Jim Ellis says in ...
Until 2010, Jim continued to coach swimming at the Marcus Foster pool, with the program qualifying swimmers for the US Olympic Trials from 1992 through 2008. Jim has achieved several accolades and awards, including being named one of USA Swimming's 30 for 30 as one of the 30 most influential people in the sport of swimming for the last 30 years.
Feb 12, 2024 · He swam for Winchester High School and then Cheney State, a historically Black college near Philadelphia. As the movie PRIDE recounts, Ellis took job in an impoverished neighborhood and founded the P.D.R. (Philadelphia Department of Recreation) Swim Team, based at the Marcus Foster Recreation Center in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia, in 1971.
Mar 29, 2007 · The new film Pride is based on the story of math teacher Jim Ellis, who fought off racial prejudice in the 1970s to put together an all-black swim team in north Philadelphia. Ellis continues...
As the movie Pride recounts, Ellis took a job in an impoverished neighborhood and founded the P.D.R. (Philadelphia Department of Recreation) Swim Team, based at the Marcus Foster Recreation Center in the Nicetown section of Philadelphia, in 1971.
Apr 29, 1990 · In the mid-1980's, Ellis moved to the Marcus Foster center and changed the team's name simply to PDR. His swimmers begged him to let them be dolphins or sharks or swimming cobras but he told...
