Life After Swimming
Ball currently resides in Pensacola, Florida. In the time since retiring from competition swimming at the age of 17, she has been a college swim coach, kindergarten teacher, junior swim coach, housewife and interior decorator. Ball and her business partner have operated a successful interior decorating business, "Beside the Point," for the past decade. She and her husband Tom Condon have three children and a grandchild.
She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1976, and the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
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