San Antonio Movers and Shakers

George Block – 7/17/10

Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Haven for Hope

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George Block is currently Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for Haven for Hope of Bexar County, our community’s new transformational homeless center. Prior to joining Haven for Hope on July 1, 2009, he was an educator and coach in San Antonio for 36 years.

In his nearly four decades of coaching, Coach Block has developed 6 different Olympians in three different sports, 50 UIL State Gold Medalists, over 285 All-Americans, Olympic Trials qualifiers in 1984-88-92-96 and 2000, and numerous National and Junior Champions.

In 1987, Coach Block was awarded the Phillips 66 Performance Award. In 1992, Coach Block was the Coca-Cola Texas Coach of Honor. In 1997, the United States Water Fitness Association named Coach Block its Top Aquatics Director. From 1997-98, Coach Block served as the President of the American Swimming Coaches Association and in 2000 Coach Block was been awarded the Silver Award of Excellence for 20 years of USA Swimming National finalists. He is currently Vice-President of USA Swimming and President of the World Swimming Coaches Association.

Also heavily involved in the community, Coach Block was one of the founders of the San Antonio Sports Foundation and of Voices for Children – San Antonio, an early childhood advocacy organization of which he is now Chairman of the Board.

Coach Block is married to Margie, a retired nurse. They have three children, Meagan, an attorney in private practice in San Antonio; Jeremy, an archaeology graduate student at the University of Texas – San Antonio; and Jackson, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Rochester.

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