| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961or1962(age 62–63) [1] |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Playing career | |
| 1980-1983 | University of Southern California |
| Position(s) | Freestyle |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1993–2023 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2004 | U.S. Olympic (Asst.) |
| 2008 | U.S. Olympic (Asst.) |
| 2010 | Pan Pac Championships |
| 2010 | World Championships (25m) |
| 2012 | U.S. Olympic |
| 2020 | U.S. Olympic (Asst.) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 5 Pac-12 Championship (2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021) 4 NCAA Championship (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015) | |
Teri McKeever (born c. 1962) is an American former college and Olympic swimming coach. She was the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1993 until her firing in 2023. Her Cal Bears teams have won four NCAA national championships. McKeever served as an assistant coach for the United States Olympic women's swim team three times (2004, 2008, and 2020), and as the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swim team. [2]
McKeever was born in 1962. [3] She was the oldest child in a family of ten children. [3] Her father, Mike McKeever, and her father's twin brother, Marlin McKeever, both attended the University of Southern California, and were both first-team All-American linemen for the USC Trojans football team in 1959. Her father died in 1967 from head injuries received in a 1965 car accident, after twenty-two months in a coma. Her mother later remarried, and had seven more children with her second husband. The family athletic influence remained strong, with all of her nine siblings participating in a variety of sports. [3] Her sisters Kristi and Kelli were members of the U.S. national field hockey team. [3]
McKeever attended the University of Southern California (USC), where she swam for the USC Trojans women's swimming and diving team from 1980 to 1983 [3] and joined international women's fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta in 1981. [4] She competed in four NCAA national championship and contributed to the Trojans' four straight national top-ten finishes. [3] She received All-America honors in 1980 and 1981, and following her 1983 senior season, she was recognized as the university's outstanding student-athlete. [3] She graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in education in 1983, and later earned a master's degree in athletic administration in 1987. [3]
McKeever began coaching as an assistant coach at USC from 1984 to 1987. [3] She has been the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley since 1992–93. [3] Since 1996–97 (her fifth season as head coach), her California Bears swim teams have consistently finished among the top ten Division I college teams in the nation. [3] The Bears women have won five Pac-12 Conference team championships, and four NCAA national championships (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015). [2] She has been named Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Year nine times [2] and College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Coach of the Year five times. [5]
After USC and before going to the Cal Bears, McKeever was the head coach of the Women's swimming team at Fresno State University in Fresno, California.
McKeever's Cal Bears program has produced more than 25 members of the U.S. Olympic team, including Haley Cope, Natalie Coughlin, Emily Silver, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer, Caitlin Leverenz, Rachel Bootsma, Missy Franklin, Kathleen Baker, and Abbey Weitzeil. [2] Other notable swimmers include Elizabeth Pelton and Isabel Ivey. [2] She previously served as an assistant coach for the United States Olympic women's swimming team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. [3] [6] [7]
In December 2010, she was selected as the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. [7] She is the first woman to serve as the head coach of a U.S. women's national swim team at the Olympics. [7] She previously served as the head coach the U.S. women's national team for the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. [7]
In 2014, she was inducted into the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Hall of Fame. [8]
On May 24, 2022, it was reported that Coach McKeever was accused of the alleged bullying and emotional/verbal abuse of Cal swimmers dating back to 2014. [9] According to media, "At least 26 people have alleged that Cal women's swimming head coach Teri McKeever has created a toxic culture rampant with severe verbal and emotional abuse that has led to significant mental and physical health ramifications for team members." [10] The same day, the University of California, Berkeley released a statement confirming the allegations but their privacy policy prevented the University from commenting on the case. [11]
McKeever married Jerry Romani in 2007, after they met at a California Golden Bears football game. [6]
Dana Whitney Vollmer is a former American competition swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning United States team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that set the world record in the event. Eight years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vollmer set the world record on her way to the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, and also won golds in the 4×100-meter medley relay and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. She won three medals including a gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Mike McKeever was a guard at the University of Southern California football team.
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Sara Isaković is a retired Slovenian swimmer. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, aged 20, she placed 2nd in the 200 m freestyle with the time of 1:54.97, becoming the second woman ever to break the 1 min 55 sec mark. It is still, to this day, the only swimming Olympic medal won for Slovenia. Isaković competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The USC Trojans are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. While the men's teams are nicknamed the Trojans, the women's athletic teams are referred to as either the Trojans or Women of Troy. The program participates in the Big Ten Conference and has won 136 team national championships, 112 of which are National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships. USC's official colors are cardinal and gold. The Trojans have a cross-town rivalry in several sports with UCLA. However, USC's football rivalry with Notre Dame predates the UCLA rivalry by three years. The Notre Dame rivalry stems mainly from the annual football game played between these two universities and is considered the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football. The Trojans also enjoy a rivalry with the Stanford Cardinal. The USC Trojans are considered one of the most successful college athletic programs of all time.
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