Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2024
An AIAW Division II National Champion and All-American in the women's 200 and 400 medley relays in 1980, Granger broke countless individual and relay school records during her Cal Poly career from 1978-80 and was a team captain. She served as head coach for the Cal Poly swimming and diving program during the 1984-85 season.
Granger, widely regarded as one of the fastest swimmers in the world in her age group, has had a decorated Masters swimming career both nationally and internationally. She has won a number of U.S. Masters Swimming national titles, including claiming five short course championships this June in Indianapolis and eight in the 65-69 age group at last year’s spring nationals.
Granger is the current world record holder in the women’s 50-meter butterfly in two age groups — the 60-64 age group (short course) and 65-69 age group (long course).
She has earned numerous FINA World Championships over her illustrious career in the pool, including four at the 19th World Aquatics Masters Championships in Japan last August in the in the 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly and 100 fly. She currently holds six American records across several age groups and has set 19 during her swimming career.
A 1980 Cal Poly grad with her bachelor’s in physical education, Granger is a multiple-time Pan-American champion and still owns a handful of Pan-American records to this day. Granger is the first woman from the Cal Poly swimming and diving program to be inducted into the Cal Poly Hall of Fame.
Granger started her collegiate swimming career at College of the Sequoias from 1976-78, where she set multiple records and was a two-time Most Valuable Female Student-Athlete of the Year. Granger, a former Cal Poly professor, taught Kinesiology at El Camino College in Torrance for 35 years and was the associate head coach for the school’s swimming and diving program for 20 years. While earning her master’s in education administration with an emphasis in athletic administration from Colorado State, Granger served as the women’s assistant swim coach for two years and mentored several Olympians before returning to Cal Poly in 1984 to lead the Mustangs’ program. From 1986-88, she was also the associate athletic director of women’s sports at UCLA.
