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Dan Ketchum

Daniel Ketchum
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Ketchum
National teamUnited States
Born (1981-10-07) October 7, 1981 (age 43)
Weight212 lb (96 kg)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubCincinnati Marlins
College teamUniversity of Michigan
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place Athens 2004 4x200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2004 Indianapolis 4×200 m freestyle

Daniel Ketchum (born October 7, 1981) is an American former swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Ketchum earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

Ketchum spent two years in Ireland from 1994 to 1996, where he was educated at Villiers School.[1] He swam for the Cincinnati Marlins swim club as an age group swimmer, and later for Sycamore High School in Cincinnati. While swimming for Sycamore High, he won six individual Ohio state swimming championships in 1998, 1999 and 2000—three each in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events.[2] He then attended the University of Michigan, where he swam for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He was a member of Michigan's NCAA national championship team in the 800-meter freestyle relay, together with Peter Vanderkaay, Davis Tarwater and Andrew Hurd, in 2004.[3][4]

He assumed the role of head coach of the swim team at Loveland High School starting in the 2009-10 high school swim season.[5] During his first season as head coach he led the Tigers to their best results in history at the 2010 OHHSA Swimming and Diving Championship Meet where his boys finished seventh overall and the girls finished 14th overall.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ Daniel Ketchum profile Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Tipperarystar.ie; accessed 3 March 2015.
  2. ^ "OHSAA Swimming & Diving Information". Ohssa.org.
  3. ^ MGoBlue.com, Men's Swimming & Diving, Michigan Men's Swimming and Diving All-Time NCAA Champions Archived 30 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  4. ^ HickokSports.com, Sports History, NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Champions Archived September 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  5. ^ Zipperstein, Leah (23 December 2009). "Olympic medalist dives into coaching" (fee required). The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved 26 December 2009. [Dan] Ketchum, a Sycamore High graduate who swam for Michigan and competed in the 2004 Olympics, is in his first season as coach at Loveland High. ... Ketchum works as an engineer for General Electric and lives in Loveland with his wife, a schoolteacher.
  6. ^ "2010 OHIO STATE HIGH SCHOOL - 2/24/2010 to 2/27/2010 : SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS : C.T. BRANIN NATATORIUM CANTON, OHIO". Ohsaa.org. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
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