{"id":9738,"date":"2020-01-01T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:04","slug":"untitled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera Athletic Hall of Fame swimmer passes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most decorated swimmers in Madera Coyotes history, Mr. Arthur Ruble, passed away on Christmas day. He was 65-years-old.<\/p>

Mr. Ruble, who swam in the in the early 1970\u2019s, is still has top 10 swimming times in a few disciplines.<\/p>

Mr. Ruble was inducted into the Madera Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016 and his honor was long-awaited.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to be inducted,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI don\u2019t want to sound snobbish. I think I should be there and I\u2019m glad I\u2019m there. It was my hometown where I developed into a swimmer that was able to go to the next level.\u201d<\/p>

Mr. Ruble grew up in Woodlake and moved to Madera in the fourth grade when his father got a teaching and coaching job at Madera High School. He swam with an AAU program and entered open events against 18-year-olds and beat them.<\/p>

When he was a sophomore Mr. Ruble set school records in the 50-yard butterfly and 100-yard individual medley. He also was an All-American in the 50-yard and 100-yard feestyle events while winning and setting a Central Section records as a junior.<\/p>

\u201cI was allowed three events and one relay in high school,\u201d Mr. Ruble said. \u201cMy dad placed me in whatever events I would be most effective. My dad was a strategist. He would take me out of an event and put me in another event he thought I could beat their best guy.\u201d<\/p>

He was an All-American as a senior in the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle while winning Central Section championships in all three events. He earned a full-ride scholarship to Fresno State.<\/p>

\u201cMy dad made me work out in every stroke,\u201d Mr. Ruble said. \u201cMy best event was the individual medley, but my favorite was the 100-yard freestyle. It wasn\u2019t the all-out sprint like the 50. It was a very controlled sprint. You\u2019re just at the verge of going all-out. After you\u2019re coming off the turn, it\u2019s all you got.\u201d<\/p>

By the time Mr. Ruble was done at Fresno State, he held every swim record for the Bulldogs.<\/p>

He also was the Big West 50-yard freestyle champion in 1975 and 1976 and the 100-yard champion in 1974 and 1976. He placed fifth in the NCAA championships and was the Fresno State Athlete of the Year in 1976.<\/p>

At Fresno state, he swam in 76 individual events and lost just twice, both to future Olympians.<\/p>

Mr. Ruble also won the gold medal in the 100-freestyle relay at the Pan Am Games and won an unofficial gold medal for the 50-meter freestyle. He missed out of going to the Olympics by one-hundreths of a second.<\/p>

After he was done swimming, Mr. Ruble spent his adult years working in agriculture.<\/p>

\u201cI worked for Blue Diamond Almonds for a while,\u201d he said. \u201cI received almonds from the growers, weighed them, evaluated them and put them by variety in the right storage.\u201d<\/p>

He then worked with his uncle grafting trees and got a job for eight years for UC Davis as an ag technician.<\/p>

He worked for Dave Wilson Nursery selling almond trees.<\/p>

He is survived by his wife Diane and has three daughters who are all nurses. He is proceeded in death by his son, who passed away at 4 1\/2 years old.<\/p>

Funeral arrangements are taken care by Boice Funeral Home. A public visitation will be held Jan. 9 from 2-6 p.m. at Boice Funeral Home (308 Pollasky Ave. in Clovis).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most decorated swimmers in Madera Coyotes history, Mr. Arthur Ruble, passed away on Christmas day. He was 65-years-old. Mr. Ruble, who swam in the in the early 1970\u2019s, is still has top 10 swimming times in a few disciplines. Mr. Ruble was inducted into the Madera Athletic Hall of Fame in 2016 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":40086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[32,50],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-culture","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}