Wolf Wigo - Personal

Personal

  • His given name is Wolfgang, reportedly from a character in a James Fenimore Cooper novel.
  • After college, Wigo worked as an equity options trader at the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco (1996–2000). For most of the four years he made trades for Cole Roesler Capital Management until about 2:30 p.m., then went to either Stanford, or across the bay to Cal for his water polo workouts. Every Friday, he would head from the trading floor to the airport, fly south to train with the US National Team all weekend, then back home Sunday night.
  • Wolf and his wife Barbara have a daughter, Athena, born during the Athens 2004 Olympic games.
  • His father, Bruce Wigo, is the former executive director of US Water Polo, and now CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft Lauderdale, Florida.
  • Drac and Janson, Wolf's younger brothers, have signed national letters of intent to play water polo at Stanford in Fall 2006. The Wigo twins played for Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Florida, reaching the Florida state championship game in 2004 and helping Northeast win the state title in 2005 and 2006.
  • In December 1998, Wigo was in his father's backyard pool trying to win a bet with his 12-year-old twin brothers that he couldn't swim 20 laps underwater. He blacked out from lack of oxygen—because he hyperventilated too much before he got into the water. His father dived in, pulled him out and performed CPR, saving his life.
  • Wigo's mother, Dawn Young, an actress and filmmaker in New York City, made him the subject of a 2004 award-winning documentary, Beneath The Surface, about his rise in the water polo world to compete in three Olympics.

Read more about this topic:  Wolf Wigo

Famous quotes containing the word personal:

    “The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up—or else all go down—as one people.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”
    —Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)