Her association with synchronized swimming began at the Margaret Eaton School in Toronto in 1935, and continued during her undergraduate and teaching years at Mount Allison University. It increased in scope and intensity in 1958 when she began a whirl-wind decade of teaching skill courses, coaching competitive teams, helping to establish new clubs wherever an indoor or outdoor pool could be found, and in leading her New Brunswick team to the 1st Canada Winter Games in Quebec City. Her earliest work was with young swimmers; in 1980 she reached out to include in her pool of converts a group of senior citizens who belonged to The Fredericton Silver Dolphins. Coach, teacher, executive, sport historian, nationally accredited judge, Della Cody is acknowledged as the pioneer of synchronized swimming in New Brunswick, as well as the glue that bound her “synchro” creations together so successfully for the better part of half a century. Enrolled in the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, June 2nd, 1990