Palos Verdes Peninsula High School Pool Restoration Effort Gets Boost from Prindle $150,000 Lead Gift
Jackie Prindle Marilyn and Ken Prindle’s lead gift of $150,000, in tribute to their late daughter Jackie, has boosted a grass roots effort at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School to restore and expand the existing swimming pool. Jackie Prindle was a water polo player and swimmer who graduated from Peninsula in 2003. She passed away at age 24 in February 2010 from complications of Marfan’s disease. In their grief, the Prindles looked to the water that energized their gangly, rambunctious daughter as a way of honoring her memory. According to Ken Prindle, “Jackie was always in the water. She loved it, and loved competing for Peninsula.” PVPHS Principal Mitzi Cress recalls Jackie as a student at PVPHS. “She always traveled around campus with a group,” Cress said. “Jackie was full of life, and always up for fun, and any activity she joined was that much better for her participation.” Fellow water polo player and PVPHS graduate Eliza Hynes recalled their days together competing for Peninsula. “She was always smiling and laughing — and her laugh was contagious! She embraced challenges and adventures like no one else I know,” Hynes said. She added, “No matter if you failed a test, got…
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