query: where does the us olympic swim team train

pos: United States Olympic Training Center do so. The Colorado Springs OTC was the first to be built, and has been the home of the U.S. Olympic Committee since 1978. Its location on the former Ent Air Force Base was selected for its relatively high elevation, which is often thought to improve training effectiveness. Its facilities include an Olympic-size swimming pool, an indoor shooting range, the Olympic Training Center Velodrome, two sports centers housing numerous gymnasiums and weight rooms, and a sports science laboratory, in addition to an athlete center and dining hall, several dormitories, a visitors' center, and the offices of both the USOC and

pos: Sang Chul Lee (taekwondo) so that you can kick continuously and quickly."" The US Team responded to these new innovations accordingly, attributing international competition winnings to the transition, and therefore culminating in the growing success at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Shortly after moving to Colorado Springs, Lee founded the US Taekwondo Center. In typical Lee fashion, he spared no expense. He wanted to build a world class dojang where Olympic athletes could train and where he could showcase Taekwondo to international athletic directors, especially those from Eastern European Bloc countries, when they came to visit the US Olympic Training Center. Lee took out

neg: Peter Vanderkaay four and a half seconds. On December 20, 2010, Vanderkaay announced that he would be leaving Ann Arbor and Club Wolverine, where he had trained for over eight years, to move to Gainesville, Florida and train with the Gator Swim Club. The Gator Swim Club is affiliated with the University of Florida and is coached by Gregg Troy, the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic men's team, and is home to several elite swimmers including Ryan Lochte, Conor Dwyer and Elizabeth Beisel. At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the qualifying event for the U.S. Olympic

neg: Lake Forest Swim Club its exceptional coaching. Multiple coaches have served in roles on the US Olympic team - one as Assistant Manager for the 2004 Olympic team and another as the Head Manager of Open Water swimming for the 2016 Olympic team. In March 2016, LFSC hosted the USA Speedo Sectional Championships for the Midwest region in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. During this swim meet, a record-breaking 17 Olympic trial qualifying times were achieved by swimmers. Notable Members and Alumni Lake Forest Swim Club Lake Forest Swim Club (LFSC) is a private year-round USA Swimming program located in Lake Forest, Illinois. Since its founding

neg: Mary Mohler and after her collegiate career, Mohler qualified for the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials but failed to make either the 2004 or th 2008 Olympic Swim Team. Even though she had two disappointing results from the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, she continues to train for the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics with hopes of making the team. To aid in her efforts towards the 2012 games, Mohler competed in the 2008–2009 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series and was ranked first in the series and obtaining best times for her Butterfly events. She has two other siblings who also shared the love for

neg: Bolles School turf. The swim team has been coached by Gregg Troy, current head coach at the University of Florida, and 2012 US Olympic men's team head coach. Troy was followed as head coach by Olympic medalist Sergio Lopez until 2014 when Lopez left to become the Singapore National team head coach. The current Bolles coach is former Olympic swimmer Jon Sakovich. The school's swimming facility has its own offices, weight room (separate from the weightroom that the rest of the school uses), and two swimming pools (one Olympic-sized). , the boys swim team has won 29 consecutive Florida State championships and

neg: Don Schollander he was too small to compete in high school football. Instead, he joined Lake Oswego High School's swim team, and in 1960, helped lead the team to an Oregon state swimming championship as a freshman. As a teenager in 1962, Schollander moved to Santa Clara, California to train under swim coach George Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. Two years later at the age of 18, he won three freestyle events at the AAU national championships. He made the U.S. Olympic team in two individual events and two relays. Months later, he won four gold medals and set three

neg: Tara Kirk 4×100-meter medley relay. Tara Kirk's younger sister, Dana Kirk, joined her on the 2004 USA Women's Olympic Swimming team, becoming the first set of sisters to swim on the same US Olympic Team. Kirk finished third at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials by one-hundredth of a second and did not qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in the 100-meter breaststroke. Kirk had decided to not swim the 200-meter breaststroke in order to concentrate on the 100. On July 21, 2008, the winner of the women's 100 breaststroke at the Trials, Jessica Hardy, was notified that she had tested positive for

neg: Bruce Gemmell (coach) US Olympic Trials in 1980 and 1984. 6. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/sports/olympics/katie-ledecky-swimming-coach-rio-2016.html Bruce Gemmell (coach) Bruce Gemmell is an American Swimming coach. He is also "an engineer and inventor" with "11 American patents on which his name appears..." In 2016 Gemmell was named an women's assistant coach for the United States Olympic Swimming Team. Gemmell is a coach at the Nation's Capital Swim Club, where he has worked with athletes including Katie Ledecky and Andrew Gemmell. Gemmell has been named coach of the year by the American Swim Coaches Association three times. Gemmell is signed to the company DLE.As an athlete Gemmell swam

neg: Paul Blair (swimming) the second winningest coach ever of all sports in the state of Arkansas. Blair individually coached 6 US National Champions, 1 US Open National Champion, 12 US Junior National Champions, 2 Olympic Festival Gold Medalists, 35 National Age Group Champions, 17 National Age Group Record Holders, 9 Masters National Champions, 1 Pan American Silver Medalist, 25 World Ranked Swimmers, 25 Olympic Trials Qualifiers, 4 Pan Pacific Team Members, 6 Olympic Swimmers, 1 World Championships Silver Medalist, and 1 Olympic Gold Medalist. Blair was the head coach and owner of the Arkansas Dolphins Swim Team. He was also associate head coach

neg: Iowa Hawkeyes the University of Florida swim team, Olympian Conor Dwyer swam with the Hawkeyes swim team on scholarship for his first two collegiate seasons: the Hawkeyes were the only university to offer Dwyer a scholarship after high school. Nancilea Underwood (now Foster) was a diver on the United States Olympic Team in 2008 after completing her career diving for the University of Iowa. She was a 4-time US National Champion in individual and synchronized springboard events. She placed 8th on the 3 meter springboard at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Men's tennis became a varsity sport at Iowa in 1939,

neg: Bill Boomer Bill Boomer William "Bill"/"Buzz"/"Boomer" Boomer was the head coach of the men's swim team at the University of Rochester from 1962 to 1990. Since the early 1990s, Boomer has been a guest speaker for the Stanford University swim team and has worked one-on-one with many world-class swimmers. Boomer was a coach for the 2000 US Olympic team. Boomer had no experience coaching swimming when he started at Rochester. The graduate assistant to the track and field team had in fact never seen a swim meet prior to being offered the job. In order to better understand his swimmers, Boomer studied

neg: Orinda, California mayor. Several Orinda summer-league swim teams compete for a championship cup in mid-August every year. Over two thousand individual swimmers typically participate. Orinda is also home to the popular year-round swim team, Orinda Aquatics. Orinda has raised numerous competitive swimmers (and waterpolo players) from Orinda have gone on to compete for major colleges and in the Olympics. Notables include Kirk Everist '86 (US Olympic Team '92 and '96), Heather Petri '96 (Gold: 2012 Olympics; Silver: 2000 Olympics, 2008 Olympics; Bronze: 2004 Olympics), and Michael Sharf (NCAA All-American, 2007 US National Team Member). Orinda borders Tilden Regional Park, a 2,079 acre

neg: Mary Mohler Butterfly. A year before graduating from the University of Georgia, Mohler signed with major swimsuit brand TYR Sports, Inc.. TYR will be her official swimwear until 2010. Mohler had a smooth transition from swimming as an amateur in college to a professional swimmer. Unlike amateur swimming, she now gets paid to swim, do photo shoots, and hold swim camps. Narrowly missing the 2004 Olympic Swim Team, DeScenza knew that she had to redeem herself. She felt that it was a "blessing in disguise" because she was able to focus more of her swimming and train harder by learning from her

neg: Mary Mohler mistakes. Mohler continued training in 2007 for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials by competing in the 2007–2008 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series. She came in second in the rankings, behind Michael Phelps by 76 points. The 2008 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials brought disappointment once again. Mohler was just short of a spot on the 2008 Olympic Swim Team. She just missed a spot on the team by coming in fourth place, top two make the team, in the 200 meter Butterfly. Mohler represented the Athens Bulldog Swim Club and came in with the time of 2:09.23. She was out

neg: Fiona Doyle While she failed to achieve the A qualifying standard she was determined to pursue a dream she had since she was eleven to swim at the Olympics. In 2009, she moved to Dublin to train with Portmarnock Swimming Club and the NAC High Performance Centre where she was coached by Anne Burdis, Peter O’Brien and Paul O’Donovan. Fiona accepted a sports scholarship from the University of Calgary as it had a proven track record under Head-Coach Mike Blondal, in coaching international and Olympic class swimmers and has one of the top performing women’s swimming team in the CIS In 2014

neg: Mitch Ivey Mitch Ivey Mitchell Ivey (born February 2, 1949) is a former American international swimmer who was a backstroke specialist and Olympic medalist. Ivey later became a prominent Olympic and college swimming coach. He was born in San Jose, California, and trained with the Santa Clara Swim Club under coach George Haines. As a member of the Santa Clara Swim Club, he won three Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) United States national championships. He initially attended Stanford University, but transferred to California State University, Long Beach, where he swam for coach Don Gambril's Long Beach State 49ers swim team in National Collegiate

neg: Sal Cenicola U.S. Army where he won the "Outstanding Soldier of the Cycle" for his Basic Training. He would go on to represent the NJ Gladiators/USA Boxing Team in international bouts. Among his most notable wins was against Ireland's Sean Doyle, Ireland's national champion. In 1979, Cenicola began to train with the US Olympic Boxing team. He trained until his left shoulder was injured in February 1980, just 3 weeks before the Olympic Trials team was set to fly to Poland for an exhibition match. Cenicola was taken off of the team because of the injury and never made the trip to

neg: Danielle Beaubrun September 2009. On 2010 she was the flag bearer for Saint Lucia at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. <br> Danielle Beaubrun Danielle Beaubrun (born May 6, 1990 in Saint Lucia) is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. She swam for Saint Lucia at the 2008 Olympic Games, where she was the youngest member of the country's Olympic team. Danielle started her swimming career at the age of five with 'learn to swim' classes with the Sea Jays Swim Club, as she became more able, she

neg: Danielle Beaubrun Danielle Beaubrun Danielle Beaubrun (born May 6, 1990 in Saint Lucia) is an Olympic and National Record holding swimmer from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. She swam for Saint Lucia at the 2008 Olympic Games, where she was the youngest member of the country's Olympic team. Danielle started her swimming career at the age of five with 'learn to swim' classes with the Sea Jays Swim Club, as she became more able, she started competing competitively, coached by her mother, Karen Beaubrun. Six years later, at the age of eleven, she began her training with the Cuban coach,

neg: Missy Franklin morning until eleven at night, and had to report where she was at all times. She would be given one hour a day and within that hour she had to be at that exact location, in case they would come to drug test her. Franklin started training for the London Olympics with Kara Lynn Joyce on the Colorado stars swim team. Within the London Olympic trials, Franklin became the first female to qualify for seven Olympic events. At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Franklin qualified to swim in four individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In her first

neg: Bill Boomer fingers in a farming accident, and he credits coping with the trauma of that episode as an integral part of shaping many of his life and coaching philosophies. Bill Boomer William "Bill"/"Buzz"/"Boomer" Boomer was the head coach of the men's swim team at the University of Rochester from 1962 to 1990. Since the early 1990s, Boomer has been a guest speaker for the Stanford University swim team and has worked one-on-one with many world-class swimmers. Boomer was a coach for the 2000 US Olympic team. Boomer had no experience coaching swimming when he started at Rochester. The graduate assistant to

neg: Brian Hill (swimmer) vision. Since the 2004 Summer Paralympics, he has resided in Montreal, Quebec. During his childhood, Hill's parents dug a 17-metre pool for him to swim in. "It was the first sport where I was able to train and compete with other kids at an equal level," he says. He started competitive swimming at the age of nine. Hill's girlfriend Karine Thomas is a member in Canada's Olympic synchronized swimming team. After he retires, he wants to have a culinary career. At the age of 17, Hill participated in six events at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. He won

neg: Brock Kreitzburg 2006 Named to the US Olympic Team - USA 1 Bobsled Jan 1, 2006 Appeared in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, CA 2001 Became a member of the USA Bobsled Team 1999 Attended mini-camp for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1998-99 All-Conference Wide Receiver at the University of Toledo February 2009 Quoted nationally in USA Today, Wall Street Journal & the AP regarding Home Depot's elimination of the Olympic Job Opportunity Program that benefitted the rank and file US Olympic athletes ability to live, work and train for their sport in a meaningful way via Home Depot's US Olympic Committee

neg: Margaret Hoelzer 2008, Hoelzer relocated to Seattle, Washington and then to Fullerton, California with coach Sean Hutchison to train at Fullerton Aquatics. Her grandfather, Helmut Hoelzer invented the first fully electronic analog computer and was a member of the Wernher von Braun Operation Paperclip team. Her sister, Martha Hoelzer ran cross country and track for the University of Alabama and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials, Hoelzer qualified to swim the 200-meter backstroke by placing first, with a time of 2:11.88. She also swam in the 100-meter backstroke, but did not qualify to swim that

neg: Samantha Arsenault Samantha Arsenault Samantha Arsenault (born October 11, 1981), later known by her married name Samantha Livingstone, is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion. Arsenault represented the United States at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, where she received a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Diana Munz, Lindsay Benko and Jenny Thompson. The four Americans set a new Olympic record in the event final of 7:57.80. Arsenault was born in Peabody, Massachusetts. She swam for North Shore Swim Club and Greenwood Memorial Swim Club

neg: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center The Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center is an aquatic facility in Federal Way, Washington constructed for the 1990 Goodwill Games. It has hosted US Olympic Diving Team Trials, NCAA championships, PAC-10 conferences championships, USA Swimming Winter National championships and Speedo Junior National championships. Over 200 world records have been set at the center. The center is open to the public for open swim, pool exercise, family swim, lessons and lap swim. The facility opened on 18 April, 1990. It had been constructed to host the 1990 Goodwill Games held in Seattle. The land was donated

neg: Darren Mew a summer swim camp founded by Olympic swimmers Gary Hall, Jr. and his father, Gary Hall, Sr. The Race Club, originally known as "The World Team", was designed to serve as a training group for elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To be able to train with the Race Club, one must either have been ranked in the top 20 in the world the past 3 calendar years or top 3 in their nation in the past year. The Race Club included such well known swimmers as Roland Schoeman, Mark Foster, Ryk Neethling

neg: Mark Foster (swimmer) and in the next few years, Foster broke the World Short Course freestyle record four times, the World Short Course butterfly record twice, and set the World Long Course butterfly record (in 1996) with a time of 24.07 seconds. Foster trained at The Race Club, a Florida swim camp founded by Olympic Swimmers Gary Hall, Jr. and his father, Gary Hall, Sr. The Race Club, originally known as "The World Team," was designed to serve as a training group for elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To be able to train with the

neg: Florida Gators head coach of the U.S. Olympic men's swim team in 2012. Dale Schultz is the new head coach of the men's and women's diving teams, succeeding long-time coach Donnie Craine in 2014. The Gators swimming and diving teams hold their home meets at the O'Connell Center Natatorium and train in the Carse Swimming Complex. The Florida Gators have one of the strongest and most storied women's tennis programs in NCAA history, and the women's tennis team has won seven NCAA team championships (1992, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2017). The team has also produced three individual Gators who have won

neg: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center facility has had an annual economic impact of $7.5 million USD. https://www.kingcounty.gov/services/parks-recreation/parks/activities-rentals/aquatics.aspx Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center The Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatics Center is an aquatic facility in Federal Way, Washington constructed for the 1990 Goodwill Games. It has hosted US Olympic Diving Team Trials, NCAA championships, PAC-10 conferences championships, USA Swimming Winter National championships and Speedo Junior National championships. Over 200 world records have been set at the center. The center is open to the public for open swim, pool exercise, family swim, lessons and lap swim. The facility opened on 18 April, 1990. It had been constructed to

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Gregg Troy (1995)
 • Thailand Olympic team head coach (1992)
 • Coached 68 Olympians
 • Coached over 230 All-American swimmers
 • Coached swimmers who set 155 U.S. and international records "Source for highlights": Gregg Troy Gregg Troy (born December 19, 1950) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators swimming and diving teams of the University of Florida. Troy previously served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic men's swim team in 1996 and 2008, and he was the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic men's swim team that competed

neg: Grant Stoelwinder his success in the pool over the last year. At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships held at the Australian Olympic Park Aquatic Centre, Eamon broke the long-standing record of Alexander Popov for this swim twice, with a final time of 21.28 seconds. According to Grant, this was a 'perfect swim'. Eamon attributes his faster swim to a 'few words' from Grant. Grant joined the procession of handshaking with the swimming luminaries during the highlights of Australian Olympic 2008 Beijing Swim Team on the final night of these selection trials with the team successfuls. Following the Olympics, Stoelwinder moved to Sydney

neg: Todd Schmitz team. Todd Schmitz Todd Schmitz (born 1978) is an American swimming coach. He currently lives in Aurora, Colorado. He is the head coach of the Denver-area club team, the Colorado Stars, which is the training program of 17-year-old swimming phenomenon Missy Franklin, a 2012 U.S. Olympic Team member. Following the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Schmitz was named to the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swimming team as an assistant coach. Schmitz is a native of North Dakota and a graduate of Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he swam for the now-defunct Metro State Roadrunners swim team. After graduation from

neg: Jon Olsen ninth overall in the B Final of the event with a time of 49.80 seconds. Olsen was elected captain of the U.S. Olympic swim team at the 1996 Games by his teammates. During his career, Olsen was trained by former freestyle sprinter Jonty Skinner. He was also coached by the current Laurel Swim Association head coach, Warren Holladay, who was previously an assistant coach at the University of Alabama. Olsen attended the University of Alabama, where he swam for Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team. He currently resides in the Florida Keys with his family where he coaches swimming.

neg: Sang Chul Lee (taekwondo) taught to work hard, to achieve beyond their potential, and to give back to the community. Lee was fond of saying, "if your opponent does 200 kicks, then you must do 300 kicks. Make no excuses." Sang Chul Lee is the most decorated US Olympic Taekwondo Head coach in history. Although Taekwondo was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, his US team won 11 medals, including 3 gold, more than any other US Taekwondo Olympic Team. Lee's coaching success was not easy. In the late 1970s, the US Taekwondo Team was unranked in the world. According to

neg: Mark Spitz beaten by Russell, Spitz did not get to swim in the 4×100-meter medley relay, which gave Russell his second gold medal and the USA team another world record performance. Spitz was disappointed in his 1968 Olympic performance. in January 1969, he decided to attend Indiana University to train with legendary Indiana Hoosiers swimming coach Doc Counsilman, who was also his Olympic coach in Mexico City. He called choosing Indiana and Counsilman "the biggest decision of my life (and) the best." While at Indiana, Spitz won eight individual NCAA titles. In 1971, he won the James E. Sullivan Award as the

neg: Todd Schmitz Todd Schmitz Todd Schmitz (born 1978) is an American swimming coach. He currently lives in Aurora, Colorado. He is the head coach of the Denver-area club team, the Colorado Stars, which is the training program of 17-year-old swimming phenomenon Missy Franklin, a 2012 U.S. Olympic Team member. Following the 2012 United States Olympic Trials, Schmitz was named to the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swimming team as an assistant coach. Schmitz is a native of North Dakota and a graduate of Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he swam for the now-defunct Metro State Roadrunners swim team. After graduation from Metro

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Joe Bottom was a three-time All-American (1975–77); Mike is currently one of the world's top sprint coaches and coaches the University of Michigan swim team.

 Joe Bottom Joseph Stuart Bottom (born April 18, 1955) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, and former world record-holder in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly and 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Born in Akron, Ohio, Bottom moved with his family at age 11 to Santa Clara, California, where he was a member of the Santa Clara Swim Club under noted swim coach George Haines. He attended Santa Clara High School, where he contributed to

neg: Casey Barrett Southern California and Southern Methodist University. In 1996, Barrett was a member of the Canadian Olympic swim team in Atlanta, where he placed 11th in the 200-metre butterfly. In 2002, Barrett co-founded Imagine Swimming, Inc. with partner, former German national team member and University of California, Berkeley alum, Lars Merseburg. The school teaches thousands of students each week, between the ages of 6 months and 12 years, at pools across Manhattan and Brooklyn, with a flagship location in TriBeCa. Imagine Swimming also oversees the Manhattan Makos swim team, the Mako Polo water polo team, and the synchronized swimming team, Imagine

neg: Trina Radke Relay Team. In 1988, she made it onto the U.S. Olympic Swim Team. That year, she finished fifth in the final of the women's 200-meter butterfly event at the Seoul Olympics, recording a time of 2:11.55. During this time, she was also a member of the swim team at her high school, Germantown Academy (GA), in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Upon graduating GA in 1989, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, where she broke school records while swimming for their varsity team. During her time in college, she also continued swimming for Team USA, winning two more gold medals

neg: Shane Ryan (swimmer) a member of the US National Junior Team in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Ryan initially competed at the US Olympics trials in 2012, finishing in 28th, which did not qualify him for the US team. He subsequently switched his allegiance to Ireland. Ryan qualified to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics by swimming under the Olympic Qualifying time in the 100m backstroke at the Swim Ulster Dave McCullagh Meet in March 2016. At the 2016 Olympics, he made it out of the heats of the 100m backstroke to qualify for the semi-finals with a personal best time of 53.85. In September

neg: Katy Sexton was there that she learned to swim and where she returned to train for Olympic trials in early 2012, but can remember splashing around in pools when she was about three years old. Katy began her career by coming third in the European Youth Olympics in 1995. She had the desire and motivation to succeed at an even higher level with a grueling daily schedule of early morning training (5.30-7.30am), school and then training again for 2 hours in the evening. This helped Katy prepare for the Olympic Games. Sexton first appeared on the senior scene at the age of

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Mike Troy Medal Swim School in Chandler, Arizona, with two time Olympic coach Mike Walker. Mike has served as Chairman of the International Section of the Olympic Committee and Vice President of the American Swimming Coaches Association. Mike is currently the National Director of the USA Paralympic Swimming Team. He accompanied the team to Athens, Greece in September 2004 where the USA Paralympic team won numerous medals.

 Mike Troy Michael Francis Troy (born October 3, 1940) is an American former competition swimmer, a two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events. The peak of Troy's swimming career occurred

neg: Cliff Murray Alaska Swimming Senior Coach of the Year five times (1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2016) and was presented the USA Swimming Outstanding Service Award in 2013. In 2017 Murray was named as a nominee for the American Swim Coaches Association Age Group Coach of the Year, and in 2018 he was recognized as Alaska Swimming's Age Group Coach of the Year. Alaska Swimming has had ten swimmers qualify for the US Olympic Trials...Murray has been the club coach for three of them (Maria Reeves, Micha Burden, Samantha Wicks). Murray recently led Northern Lights Swim Club as the first team to

neg: Katie Ledecky holder of the Stone Ridge school record in every swimming event except the 100-meter breaststroke. During the summer of 2012, she trained with the Nation's Capital Swim Club (formerly the Curl Burke Swim Club) under coach Yuri Suguiyama. Following Suguiyama's departure to coach for the University of California, Berkeley, she continued to train with the Nation's Capital Swim Club under coach Bruce Gemmell through the 2016 Olympics. During the summers prior to 2012, she swam for Palisades Swim Team in Cabin John, Maryland. Ledecky accepted an athletic scholarship to Stanford University, where she swims for coach Greg Meehan's Stanford Cardinal

neg: John Devitt He was educated first at Holy Family Primary School, The Trongate, Granville East, and later at Parramatta Marist High School in Parramatta. Both were Roman Catholic schools, where he also swum competitively for the school team. Devitt was initially trained by Tom Penny at the Clyde Swim Club, based at the Granville Pool, until it disbanded in 1947 and he moved to Manly Swim Club along with Penny. Devitt remains a member of the Swim Club. Penny often allowed his swimmers to train in warm waters by having them swim against the current of discharged water from a power plant.

neg: USA Swimming the prizes. There is only 1 National Championship meet at the conclusion of each season across the country. The National Championships are also of the invitational meet format and offer extremely high level competition. Only a very small percentage of people who ever swim will make it to this high a level of competition. This meet is generally used to determine the US National Team for various international level meets each year, but is not used to determine the US Olympic Team. Currently, there are 2 National Championships each year, but the Spring Championships have traditionally been of a significantly

neg: John Hargis has had a number of achievements in both his coaching career and his swimming career. He was selected as one of Arkansas's 100 Greatest Athletes, three-time Southeastern Conference 100-yard butterfly champion, and a 12-time college All-American. A member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic team and also an Olympic gold medalist in the 4×100-meter medley relay. He was captain of 1997 national championship swim team and a member of world championship swim team in 1998. After his career had ended Hargis was nominated and inducted into Arkansas Swimming Hall of Fame in 2001. Hargis qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in

neg: Denny Hill and Liz Hill before going on to swim at the University of Georgia. Joyce has 4 Olympic silver metals. Gregorka played water polo for Stanford University, and was a member of the US water polo team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Denny also coached Dan Stephenson, who wrote "The Underwater Window", a novel about competitive swimming. Denny Hill was named Michigan Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association Coach of the Year 31 times, Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame Inductee in 2003, NISCA Outstanding Service Award recipient in 2005, NHSACA National Coach of the Year in 1999, and

neg: Chad Senior 9:20.20 in 1993, and the 1,650 Freestyle with a time of 15:36.48 in 1997. Senior graduated in 1997 and joined the United States Army's Elite Athlete program so that he could train for the Olympics. He chose to compete in the modern pentathlon. He competed in many international competitions for several years before his Olympic debut. His first major achievement occurred in 1999, when he won the Conseil International du Sport Militaire (CISM) World Championship team event as a member of the U.S. Army team. Also in 1999, he won the first Biathle World Championship (run-swim-run). In 2000, Senior entered

neg: Nude swimming for public bathing". The subsequent public support for Bleibtrey led to the abandonment of stockings as a conventional element in women’s swimwear. The 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden were the first Olympic Games to feature female swimming as an event and the costumes used, which became translucent when wet, caused somewhat of a scandal. The United States protested that the event was "obscene" and refused to send a female swim team to the Olympics. Eventually an American women's swim team participated in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Nude swimming is fairly common in rural areas, where unexpected

neg: Emily Silver Emily Silver Emily Susan Silver (born October 9, 1985) is an American competitive swimmer, Olympic medalist, and swim coach. She was a member of the silver-medal-winning U.S. team of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She competed alongside fellow American swimmers Natalie Coughlin, Lacey Nymeyer and Kara Lynn Joyce. Silver overcame a broken hand suffered in the U.S. Olympic Trials, returning after a few weeks to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games. Silver attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she swam for coach Teri McKeever's California Golden Bears swimming and diving team in National Collegiate

neg: Gregg Troy Gregg Troy Gregg Troy (born December 19, 1950) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. He is the current head coach of the Florida Gators swimming and diving teams of the University of Florida. Troy previously served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic men's swim team in 1996 and 2008, and he was the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic men's swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Troy was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, near State College, in 1950. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Texas Christian University

neg: Bill Sweetenham this period the programme produced a number of future Australian national team members including Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett. He managed the Australian swim team for four Olympic Games and five Commonwealth Games. In 1991, he was Head Swimming Coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and Hong Kong's Head Olympic Swim Coach. He returned to Australia in 1995 to become Swimming Australia's National Youth Coach. Sweetenham's tenure with Great Britain was marked by medal success at World Championship level, Olympic disappointment, and recurring controversy on his man-management methods. He was the National Performance Director for British Swimming from November

neg: Singapore Swimming Association assistant head coach Gary Tan then established the National Training Center (NTC), where all national swimmers will train together. SSA then launched its "Swim With Us" campaign, announcing a brand new identity for the National team. The campaign was an initiative to rally the public behind aquatic sports in Singapore. The perfect opportunity for Coaches Sergio and Gary to put the effectiveness of the new system to the test arrived in the form of the 28th South-East Asian Games in June. All aquatic events of the 2015 SEA Games were held at the OCBC Aquatic Center, Singapore. A total of

neg: Krystal Lara member of the swim club Asphalt Green Unified Aquatics. She holds multiple records in her high school swim team, the Stuyvesant Penguins, where she was known as "Krystal the Pistol." She is currently a student-athlete at Northwestern University on an athletic scholarship. Lara's first national stage was at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials where she qualified in the 100 meter backstroke. She placed 86th with a time of 1.03.59. At her first 2018 Campeonatos Nacionales FEDONA, Dominican Republic Swimming Nationals, Lara broke 5 national records which include the 100 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, and 100 butterfly. She

neg: The Race Club and 1970. At the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, Hall's teammates voted him to be the flag bearer who led the U.S. Olympic Team into Olympic Stadium for the Opening ceremonies. The Halls became the first pair of father and son to each make three Olympic appearances. In 2004, swimmers from The Race Club won 6 Olympic medals at the Athens Olympic Games. In 2006, The Race Club began offering summer swim camps for swimmers of any age to learn how to swim faster. In 2008, 17 swimmers representing 15 countries that trained with The Race Club competed in the Beijing

neg: Thousand Oaks, California for NFL teams Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys, CLU also served as the official training site of the 2008 and 2012 US Olympic Men's Water Polo teams. A nearby company, "DesignworksUSA" in Newbury Park, has designed the U.S. Olympic Team's bobsleds. Furthermore, Newbury Park has been the location of several Tour of California, a professional cycling race. AYSO, club soccer (such as Apex Soccer Club, Newbury Park Soccer Club and Conejo Valley United), Conejo Youth Basketball Association, Conejo Valley Thunder Wrestling, Pop Warner football, Little League baseball, CYFFA flag football, girls' softball, organized swim team leagues, ice hockey, and

neg: Jed Graef Jed Graef Jed Richard Graef (born May 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Graef grew up in Verona, New Jersey and learned the backstroke while competing with the Montclair YMCA swim team. He attended Princeton University, where he was captain of the Princeton Tigers swim team in 1964. Graef won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Graef defended a PhD in psychology and is considered as a prominent authority in sports psychology. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame

neg: Jon Urbanchek Jon Urbanchek Jon Urbanchek is an American swimming coach, best known for his 22-year tenure as the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team of the University of Michigan from 1982 to 2004. He has served as a coach on multiple United States national swim teams, including the U.S. Olympic swim teams in 2004 and 2008. He is of Hungarian descent. Urbanchek attended the University of Michigan, where he was a member of the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team from 1959 to 1961. He received All-American honors as a college swimmer in 1959 and 1961, and

neg: Jed Graef as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1988. Jed Graef Jed Richard Graef (born May 1, 1942) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Graef grew up in Verona, New Jersey and learned the backstroke while competing with the Montclair YMCA swim team. He attended Princeton University, where he was captain of the Princeton Tigers swim team in 1964. Graef won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Graef defended a PhD in psychology and is considered as a prominent authority in sports psychology. He was inducted into

neg: Tim McKee race. At the 1972 Olympics, McKee garnered a second silver medal in the men's 200-meter individual medley (2:08.37), again finishing behind gold medalist Larsson, who set a new world record in the event (2:07.17). He also placed fifth in the final of the men's 200-meter backstroke (2:07.29). After his junior year at the University of Florida, McKee left the Gators swim team to train full-time for the 1976 Olympics. The 23-year-old McKee again qualified for the U.S. team in the 400-meter individual medley at the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he repeated his second-place

neg: Nelson Diebel team at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Diebel attended the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. He enrolled in Princeton University, where he swam for the Princeton Tigers swim team under coach C. Rob Orr. Nelson Diebel Nelson W. Diebel (born November 9, 1970) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Diebel won two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. First, he won the men's 100-meter breaststroke, setting a new Olympic record of 1:01.50 in the event final. Afterward, he swam the breaststroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's

neg: Teri McKeever 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She is the first woman to serve as the head coach of a U.S. women's national swim team at the Olympics. She previously served as the head coach the U.S. women's national team for the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. McKeever married Jerry Romani in 2007, after they met at a California Golden Bears football game. They live in the El Cerrito Hills area of metropolitan San Francisco. Teri McKeever Teri McKeever (born c. 1962) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. She has

neg: Angel Martino to Mike Martino, whom she met while both were Furman swimmers, and is best known as Angel Martino, her name during the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. In addition to her six Olympic medals, she won twelve Pan Pacific medals and seven Goodwill Games gold medals. She was a captain of the 1996 U.S. Women's Olympic Swimming team. In 2001 she was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. Martino is currently the assistant coach of the Baldwin Aqua Dragons swim team in Milledgeville, Georgia, and coaches for the Reynolds Rapids Swim Team in Greensboro, Georgia. She also assists the

neg: Caroline Burckle Burckle won the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle. At the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, Burckle placed fourth in the 200-meter freestyle, earning a place on the Olympic swim team for the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Burckle also placed fourth in the 400-meter freestyle and fifth in the 800-meter freestyle in Omaha. At the 2008 Olympic Games, Burckle earned a bronze medal swimming in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Burckle swam the lead-off leg in the preliminary heats in 1:57.86, and was selected to swim in the final. She swam the third leg of the final in 1:56.70.

neg: UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen 1,000 seat UMass Softball Complex. The men's swimming and diving teams first season was in 1935. They have been Atlantic 10 Conference champions 16 times. The women's team began their program in 1976. They were the Atlantic 10 Champions in 2001. Diver Angelique Rodríguez competed on the Puerto Rican Olympic teams in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Although UMass did not have a women's swim team at the time, Dorothy Donnelly practiced with the men's team in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She competed on the US swimming team in the 1940 Summer Olympics. The women's rowing program

neg: Swim Team (TV series) a young girl who receives full support and motivation from her family, in her quest to become India's top swimmer. The series focuses on the struggles faced by swim team members and their coach as they strive to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Swim Team (TV series) Swim Team is an Indian television series that aired on Channel V India from 9 March 2015 to 19 February 2016. The series revolves around a coach Tarun Kapoor and his team of swimmers, as they train hard in order to represent India at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The main character Rewa

neg: Micki King the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, King was the team leader for the US diving team. From 1990 to 1994, King was the president of US Diving, the governing body for US divers, and attended the 1992 Summer Olympics in that capacity. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, King was again the Olympic team leader for US divers; she sequestered the team for intensive training at the University of Kentucky facilities before the games. At the time, she noted, "We'll train in Lexington because it's in the same time zone, it has great facilities and I wanted

neg: Murphey Candler Park Murphey Candler Pool was the only true 50 meter outdoor Olympic size pool in Georgia when it was built. The Murphey Candler Swim team competed against local county swim teams from Briarwood Pool located in the Brookhaven community of Dekalb county and the swim team located at Chastain Park in Fulton county. The Dynamo Swim Club accomplishments since the club`s inception in 1964 at Murphey Candler Pool have been extensive from winning state, regional and national team titles to setting national age group records to achieving American records and world ranked times, Dynamo swimmers have enjoyed success at every level

neg: Guy Barnea Race Club, a swim camp in Florida founded by Olympic swimmers Gary Hall, Jr. and his father, Gary Hall, Sr. train elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To train with it, one must either have been ranked in the world top 20 the prior three years or top three in their nation in the past year. Barnea competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He came in 15th in the Men's 100m backstroke with a time of 54.50. He won a bronze medal in the 50m backstroke

neg: Lea Maurer of the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, New York, a coach and team that also produced Olympic champions Rick Carey and Cristina Teuscher. She attended the University of Florida in 1989 and 1990, where she swam for the Florida Gators swimming and diving team under coach Randy Reese. She transferred to Stanford University prior to the 1992 Olympics. Lea broke the 100m backstroke American record at 100.82 at the Barcelona Olympic Games leading off the World-Record earning 1992 medley relay. Lea later won the gold at the World championships in Perth, Australia in 1998 bettering her own American Record to

neg: Chet Jastremski 1968. He was a member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic medical team. He served as a family practice physician for 35 years before rheumatoid arthritis led him to retire. He practiced medicine in Bloomington, Indiana, and frequently visited the Indiana University swim team throughout the years. He died on May 3, 2014, aged 73, in Bloomington, after battling cancer, arthritis, and Parkinson's disease. Chet Jastremski Chester Andrew Jastremski (January 12, 1941 – May 3, 2014) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic medalist and world record-holder. Jastremski attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he swam for Doc Counsilman's Indiana Hoosiers

neg: Gary Hall Jr. World Team," was designed to serve as a training group for elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To be able to train with the Race Club, one must either have been ranked in the top 20 in the world the past 3 calendar years or top 3 in their nation in the past year. The Race Club included such well known swimmers as Roland Mark Schoeman, Mark Foster, Ryk Neethling, Ricky Busquet and Therese Alshammar. They were coached by University of Michigan coach Mike Bottom. The Race Club offers various swimming camps, swim

neg: Swim Team (TV series) Swim Team (TV series) Swim Team is an Indian television series that aired on Channel V India from 9 March 2015 to 19 February 2016. The series revolves around a coach Tarun Kapoor and his team of swimmers, as they train hard in order to represent India at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The main character Rewa Mathur, a young aspiring swimmer who struggles against her family and mother's unwillingness to allow her to swim, since her father (also a swimmer) had committed suicide due to issues rooted in his lack of fame. In contrast, Rewa's best friend, Umang Tandon, is

neg: Carol Brown (rower) Carol Brown (rower) Carol Page Brown (born April 19, 1953) is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was also a member of the 1980 Olympic team women's eight that did not compete in the Moscow Olympic Games due to the US-led boycott. She was a member of the 1984 Olympic team in Los Angeles. Her first US National Team was the 1974 World Championships where she and Princeton teammate Janet Youngholm raced to a fifth-place finish; the first US women's boat to reach a world championship finals. They qualified for the US Team by being

neg: Olympic Games of 2016, costs per athlete are on average US$599,000 for the Summer Games and $1.3 million for the Winter Games. For London 2012, cost per athlete was $1.4 million; for Sochi 2014, $7.9 million. Where ambitious construction for the 1976 games in Montreal and 1980 games in Moscow had saddled organisers with expenses greatly in excess of revenues, 1984 host Los Angeles strictly controlled expenses by using existing facilities except a swim stadium and a velodrome that were paid for by corporate sponsors. The Olympic Committee led by Peter Ueberroth used some of the profits to endow the LA84 Foundation

neg: Donna Gurr Vancouver in 1965, and later joined the Canadian Dolphin Swim Club, where her idol Elaine Tanner swam and was coached by Howard Firby. She qualified for her first Senior Nationals at age 12, placing 12th in one event. At the age of 13 she narrowly missed a berth on the 1968 Olympic team by placing 3rd in the 200-metre backstroke, at the Olympic Trials, and missing the qualifying time by only 3 tenths of a second. During the summer of 1969, aged 14, the Canadian Dolphins went on their first trip to Europe, where they attended the British Championships in

neg: Erica Terpstra serving from 19 May 1998 until 15 December 2003 when she was selected as President of the Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF). During the early 1960s Terpstra was a well-known freestyle swimmer in the Netherlands, specializing in the 100 meters distance. She participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where she came sixth in the 100m Freestyle, and fourth in the 4x100 Medley Relay. Following the Olympics she joined the HZ&PC swim team in The Hague. While a member of this team she was again chosen to be an Olympic athlete for the Netherlands and won two medals

neg: Lia Neal for Stanford University, where she attends college. Neal is of African American and Chinese descent. At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the U.S. qualifying meet for the Olympics, Neal made the U.S. Olympic team by finishing fourth in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 54.33 seconds, which qualified her to swim in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Neal won a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy and Allison Schmitt, with the U.S. team finishing third behind the teams from Australia and the Netherlands.

neg: Dave Gillanders contributions at the time. Notably, the prelim team Gillanders was a part of broke the world record, but it was later broken by the starting American team in the final. In addition to his Olympic medal, Gillanders won a gold medal at the 1959 Pan American Games in the 200-meter butterfly, beating eventual Olympic champion Mike Troy. Gillanders was a professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University–Kingsville) and Arkansas State University before retiring after over 30 years of teaching. He still continues to swim in United States Masters Swimming competitions where has been in the

neg: Angel Martino varsity swim team at Gatewood Schools in Eatonton, Georgia. She has two sons: Michael Campion, aged 15, and Mark, aged 11. Angel Martino Angelina Myers Martino (born April 25, 1967), now known as Angel Sims, is an American former competition swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Over her career, she won three Olympic gold medals and three bronze medals. She was born Angelina L. Myers in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where both of her parents swam for the Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team. She grew up in Americus, Georgia. She attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and

neg: Lorrie Fair year, and she helped lead UNC to the NCAA championship in 1996, 1997, and 1999. She joined the Under 20 national team in 1994, playing, among other events, in the Nordic Cup. In 1995, she was a member of the West Team at the US Olympic Festival, and she was invited to train with the National team. At 17 and a senior in high school, she was named an alternate for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games team that won the Gold. Fair rejected the chance to travel as an alternate because she was upset at being cut from national coach

neg: Fred Luehring as a committee member of the US Olympic Swimming team. Fred Luehring Frederick William Luehring (1892 – February 1, 1981) was a prolific athlete and coach. As a college athlete, he excelled at North Central University and then at the University of Chicago under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. He served as the head football coach at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin from 1906 to 1909 and also as the school's basketball coach during the same period. Luehring then served as the head basketball coach at Princeton University from 1913 to 1920. He was credited with starting the swim team

neg: Bruce Gemmell (coach) Bruce Gemmell (coach) Bruce Gemmell is an American Swimming coach. He is also "an engineer and inventor" with "11 American patents on which his name appears..." In 2016 Gemmell was named an women's assistant coach for the United States Olympic Swimming Team. Gemmell is a coach at the Nation's Capital Swim Club, where he has worked with athletes including Katie Ledecky and Andrew Gemmell. Gemmell has been named coach of the year by the American Swim Coaches Association three times. Gemmell is signed to the company DLE.As an athlete Gemmell swam at the University of Michigan and qualified for the

neg: Dixie Roberts Shag" at the Paramount Theatre, N.Y. Roberts was also a prizewinning athlete, New York State Cue Champion, and expert riflewoman. An A.A.U. swimming champ, Roberts was invited to train for the Olympic swim team, an offer her father did not let her accept. In 1943, "Physical Culture" magazine reported that, as a youngster in upstate New York, Roberts was "the best feminine baseball player in the county, and was hard to beat at tennis, basketball and swimming". Similarly, the "Sunday Mirror" reported that 22-year-old Roberts, "once had a run of 93 in three cushion billiards, bowls a neat 200 and

neg: Joseph Schooling Joseph Schooling Joseph Isaac Schooling (born 16 June 1995) is a Singaporean swimmer. He was the gold medallist in the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics, attaining Singapore's first-ever Olympic medal in swimming. His winning time of 50.39 seconds is a National, Asian, and Olympic record. He is currently studying at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Texas Longhorns swimming team, one of the top collegiate swim programmes under two-time United States Olympic men's head coach Eddie Reese. He first qualified for the Olympics in 2012 after winning the 200 m butterfly at

neg: Emily Silver and NCAA record holder - 3-time individual champion, Pacific-10 Conference Championships Emily Silver Emily Susan Silver (born October 9, 1985) is an American competitive swimmer, Olympic medalist, and swim coach. She was a member of the silver-medal-winning U.S. team of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She competed alongside fellow American swimmers Natalie Coughlin, Lacey Nymeyer and Kara Lynn Joyce. Silver overcame a broken hand suffered in the U.S. Olympic Trials, returning after a few weeks to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games. Silver attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she swam for coach Teri

neg: Bob Bowman (coach) and two bronze. Four years later, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he coached Phelps to achieve eight Olympic gold medals, which had never been done before in a single Olympics. In April 2008, Bowman announced that he would leave Michigan at the end of the 2008 USA Olympic Swim Trials (July 2008) and return to the North Baltimore Aquatic Club after the Beijing Olympics. Bowman was added to the coaching roster to the 2012 London Olympics serving as an assistant coach for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team. Bowman was hired as the new swim coach at Arizona State University in

neg: Prairie High School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) school year. They then joined the Mississippi Valley Conference, where they remain as a member in all sports but boys and girls swimming. Prairie is currently the largest high school in Iowa that does not have its own swim team. This is largely due to the lack of an on-campus pool. The school established a girls swim team was established in 1970, who competed at the Cedar Rapids YMCA. The team later went into a co-op agreement with Williamsburg High School, and now swims with Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids. However, this is a case of Prairie students on

neg: Gabe Woodward in the 4x100 Free Relay and a Bronze medalist in the 100 Freestyle. At the 2008 Olympic Trials, Woodward was a Finalist in the 100 Freestyle and a Semifinalist in the 50 Freestyle. In 2010, Gabe competed in the same two events at the US Championships. Woodward is a native of Bakersfield, California and is a and is the owner of the Bakersfield Swim Academy and Bakersfield Swim Club. Gabe is married and is blessed with four children. Gabe Woodward Gabriel Thomas Woodward (born July 6, 1979) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. On February 21, 2017,

neg: Dave Johnson (swim coach) Nolden as Canada's first female Olympic swim coach on June 4, 2000. The appointment was criticized by the Canadian Swimming Coaches Association, as Nolden was not selected on pre-determined criteria and results. Nolden responded saying "I'm sorry it [the mudslinging] is out there. It casts a shadow on a really great thing". "Dave Johnson is extremely professional, as am I. You don't make an appointment to an Olympic team and risk the performance of the team." Johnson defended it as an affirmative-action move, as federal government funding agency Sport Canada was pushing national sport bodies to have females make up

neg: Gerald F. Russell to Boston College where he graduated in history in 1940. Russell was the first alternate for the 1940 US Olympic Team in the 800 meters. He held a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University and a Master in Education from American University. Russell later served as Military representative to the 1968 US Olympic team and US Olympic site selection committee. He was the United States representative to the Conseil International du Sports Militaire in 1967. The Colonel was instrumental in starting and eventually coaching the United States Marine Corps (USMC) track team. Awards: Republic of Korea Distinguished Service

neg: Jack Bauerle 18 national titles (nine individuals, nine relays), which is the second-most in NCAA history. Bauerle guided the Lady Bulldogs to a fifth-place finish at the NCAAs. With SEC Swimmer of the Year Rouault leading the way, Bauerle's Bulldogs claimed the 13th spot at the NCAAs. When he guided the U.S. women in 2008, it was Bauerle's second Olympic appointment. He also served as an swim assistant coach for the 2000 women's team. Additionally, Bauerle served as a personal swim coach at the Athens Olympics in 2004 where four Georgia swimmers brought home medals. Bauerle has been around the world as

neg: Todd Pearson by beating the US team for the first time in Olympic history. He went on to swim in the final of the 4×200-metre freestyle with Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim and Bill Kirby. The Aussies led from start to finish, setting another world record and achieving every child's dream of winning gold for Australia. Pearson was awarded the Order of Australia medal for contribution to sport for this effort. After Sydney in 2000, Pearson won gold medals at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and the 2002 Commonwealth Games. He was also co-captain of the Australian swimming team in 2001. Despite

neg: Sybil Smith become a psychologist. While she was there, she was also the assistant coach of their swim team. She competed at the 1988 US Olympic Trials in three events. Her best result was 21st place in the 50 meter freestyle. Her two other events were the 100 meter freestyle and the 100 meter backstroke. Sybil Smith Sybil Smith is an American former collegiate swimmer. She is the first African-American female swimmer to be named a first-team Division I All-American, and the only All-American in Boston University women's swimming history. Her daughter Sloane Stephens is a Grand Slam champion tennis player. Smith

neg: Claire Michel going to Rio 2016. And she was again awarded the Belgian Triathlon female "Athlète de l'année 2015". The Olympic year did not start very well for Michel, finishing the first 4 races of 2016 always at the bottom of the standings, always due to bad performances in the bike fraction. This negative trend ended in Chengdu where, despite a bad swim fraction which put her 1'18" behind the best swimmer Summer Cook, she was able to catch the right "bike train", arrive in T2 in the first group, and run herself in the first second position of her career, 36

neg: Monique Murphy my dream." In 2016, she is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder and trains at Melbourne Vicentre. At the end of 2016, she relocated to the Gold Coast training with Southport Olympic with coach Glenn Baker and scholarship holder with the QAS. With the cancellation of the 2017 World Championships due to the earthquake in mexico City, she finished No.1 on the world rankings for S10 400 freestyle for 2017. At the end of 2017, Monique moved to Brisbane to train with coach Harley Connolly at Lawnton Swim Club where she remains. In October 2018, she was awarded Swimming

neg: Ron Ballatore to 1999. Before UCLA, he coached the Lancers swim team of Pasadena City College from 1967 to 1978. While leading the UCLA Bruins swimming program, Ballatore coached twenty-eight Olympians, including gold medalists Brian Goodell and Tom Jager. He also served as a coach for five Olympic swimming teams, including the United States team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics, the Peruvian team in 1968, the Ecuadorian team in 1972, and the Israeli team in 1976. He also served as the head coach of the U.S. national swimming team at the 1975 Pan American Games, where his American

neg: Mark Henderson (swimmer) Mark Henderson (swimmer) Mark Andrew Henderson (born November 14, 1969) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. He is an Olympic gold medalist, three-time World champion, two-time Pan American Games champion, four-time Pan Pacific champion and five-time U.S. National champion. He competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where he was the butterfly leg of the gold medal 4×100-meter medley relay, which set the world, Olympic, American, and U.S. Open records. While in high school, Henderson swam for Curl-Burke Swim Club (renamed to Nation's Capital Swim Club) and was coached by Jeff King."" He