Beth Rotko taught swimming and coached synchronized swimming to over 250 girls and women a week while serving as the PE Director at the Bristol Girls Club from 1965 to 1973.

She led her swimmers to both in state and out of state swimming competitions and won numerous medals and titles in solo, duet and team competitions in the Connecticut AAU Championships and Junior Age group events.

She was the first coach of Karan and Sarah Josephson, winners of Olympic Silver and Gold medals in synchronized swimming.

She was a founder of the Bristol Women’s Slo-Pitch Softball League and played and coached in the league for nearly 20 years, winning numerous championships.

She later joined the Pequabuck Golf Club and was Ladies Senior Club Champion nine times and also the Ladies Club Champion one year. At the Farmington Woods Golf Club Ladies Championship she was the runner-up and also won the Ladies Club Championship and the Senior Ladies Club Championship at Simsbury Farms Golf Club. She has had three holes-in-one and has twice entered and made the cut at the Connecticut Women’s Amateur event.

She has been a swimming referee and was the softball coach at Tunxis Community College in 1977.

 

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