Dick Cleveland

Ohio State After graduating Punahou in 1947, where he also was on the school's Golf Team, Cleveland served in the Army while weight training for a year with athlete Moki Kealoha at the Schofield Barracks army base in Honolulu. He also swam competitively for the Army. He attended University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for a year where he continued to be coached by Soichi Sakamoto. He then transferred to Ohio State University, where he swam for the Ohio State Buckeyes swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). While managed by Hall of Fame Coach Mike Peppe at Ohio State, Cleveland's achievements grew. He captured four NCAA national titles including the 50-yard freestyle in 1952, three Big Ten Conference titles, and was a six-time AAU First Team All-American.

International highlights At the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he won gold medals in the men's 3×100-meter medley relay, 4×200-meter freestyle relay, and 100-meter freestyle. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, he competed in the 100-meter freestyle but failed to reach the final. He retired from competitions around 1960. He later worked as a real estate broker in Maui, with his business Inter-Island Real Estate, Inc., a career from which he retired. As late as 1990, Cleveland was still involved in selling real estate and acting as a broker in Hawaii, largely on Maui. In 1995, he and his wife Pauline moved to the larger island of Hawaii, likely from Maui where he grew up in Honolulu.