The Haines Dolphins held their own version of a graduation earlier this month, with departing coaches Robert Butker and Diana Mallory providing inspirational words during a season-ending potluck at Tlingit Park.
“The best swimmers I’ve ever known were not necessarily the naturally gifted ones, but the ones who worked the hardest at it,” Butker said. “Those people tended to be better people, in general. We’ve got a lot of good people on this team.”
Butker,…
