The Stars!

Learn more about Michael and Natalie by clicking on their pics!

Michael Phelps is not only one of the world’s greatest swimmers, but he is also considered one of the world’s most prominent athletles.  In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, at the young age of 15, Michael became the youngest athlete ever to break a World Record!  In the 2004 Athens Oylmpics, Phelps won 8 medals including 6 gold, broke 6 American Records and 3 World records!  Michael is a continiual role model for you swimmers and has put a celebrity status name to the sport of swimming!  I cannot wait to see what he does in 2008 in Bejing!

Natalie Coughlin holds 17 American, and six current World Records. She has broken 35 individual American Records and three American Relay Records.  Her 2004 Athens Olympic medals include: gold medals in the 100-meter backstroke and the 4×200-meter relay, silver medals in the 4×100-meter freestyle and medley relays and a bronze in the 100-meter freestyle. She is now currently tied for most medals won by a female athlete in a single Olympics!  Natalie has always been a source of inspiration for me.  I actually got to race her at an invitational freshmen year and got to meet her afterwards.  She was so sweet and humble.  I would have no one else be the poster child for women’s swimming!