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After leaving behind his competitive swimming career in 2009, U.S. national champion swimmer Chris DeJong decided to embark on a new venture of his own creation—Big Blue Swim School. In the decade since then, DeJong has led the Illinois-based swim instruction franchise to become an emerging dominant player in the lucrative swim-instruction industry, expanding to five open corporate and 44 sold fitness franchise locations across 11 states.