Lan O’Loughlin Aquatic Center Naming Application

Lan was such an amazing swim coach and I give thanks to him and the swim team for being a lifelong recreational swimmer

Lan O’Loughlin Aquatic Center Naming Application

Lan was a coach and mentor to thousands. He deserves this.

Lab was my Children’s coach. We loved him.

Thank you, Lan! A small gesture compared to your commitment, dedication, and passion.

He was my first swim coach when I started at the Watauga club team at age five! I always loved his presence, support, & positive attitude.

This is a recognition that is well deserved for Lan and his family. I support the naming of the New aquatic center to be Lan O'L oughlin Aquatic Center

A truly first rate coach and, more importantly, person.

Lan taught me how a true coach was supposed to treat you and I value every moment I had the privilege of learning from him. I learned how to swim but so much more as well.

There is no one in my mind more deserving of having their name on the Watagua County Recreation Complex's aquatic center than Lan O'Laughlin. He worked for years along side many who held tight to the vision that has finally become a reality in our recreation facility.

Lan touched the hearts of so many of the children of Watauga County and worked tirelessly to have the kind of facility that the County Built.

A beautiful opportunity to honor Lan and a reminder that goodness overrides all. Thanks

As a former WHS swim team member who was coached by Lan it would be a wonderful tribute to his legacy for this aquatic center to be named after him. He was a wonderful coach but even more importantly, he was a wonderful teacher and mentor to so many Watauga County young people.

In Watauga County the Soccer field have been named after Ted Mackorell fields and the track at the high school was named after Leigh Cooper Wallace. Leigh did not teach half as long as this man did, just because his family was not a local shouldn't mean he doesn't have the right to have the aquatic center named after him.

For Lan's dream of the new aquatic center and his dedication to the community!

A man who deserves to have the County Rec pool named after him for sure!

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I was the Aquatics Director of the old Swim Complex during part of Lan's coaching tenure. I saw firsthand his love and dedication to his students, swimmers, the swim team, and his family. To name this facility after Lan would be so appropriate and deserving!

20+ years later and I can still hear Lan’s whistle as he walked the pool deck. I was never going to be the top swimmer, but I got the same attentive, individualized coaching from a coach who understood both who I was and, in understanding that, what I needed in order to be better. Exceptional human, exceptional coach - I can think of no more appropriate name for this facility.

Lan was an amazing influence on me as I grew up in NC, and my entire family will always hold him close to our hearts. Naming this new center after him would be such a great way to keep his memory strong within the community he loved.

I have so many fond memories of Lan and his enthusiastic coaching.