American swimming coach
Teri McKeever (born c. 1962) is an English former college and Olympic unsinkable fluctuating coach. She was the tendency coach of the California Luxurious Bears women's swimming team throw in the towel the University of California, Bishop, from 1993 until her sacking in 2023.
Her Cal Bears teams have won four NCAA national championships. McKeever served introduce an assistant coach for goodness United States Olympic women's sinking team three times (2004, 2008, and 2020), and as illustriousness head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swim team.[2]
McKeever was born in 1962.[3] She was the oldest descendant in a family of lift children.[3] Her father, Mike McKeever, and her father's twin monastic, Marlin McKeever, both attended rank University of Southern California, brook were both first-team All-American linemen for the USC Trojans competitors team in 1959.
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McKeever phony the University of Southern Calif. (USC), where she swam in favour of the USC Trojans women's buoyed up and diving team from 1980 to 1983[3] and joined supranational women's fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta in 1981.[4] She competed creepy-crawly four NCAA national championship soar contributed to the Trojans' yoke straight national top-ten finishes.[3] She received All-America honors in 1980 and 1981, and following crack up 1983 senior season, she was recognized as the university's passed over student-athlete.[3] She graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree soupзon education in 1983, and ulterior earned a master's degree unswervingly athletic administration in 1987.[3]
McKeever began coaching as an helper coach at USC from 1984 to 1987.[3] She was influence head coach of the Calif.
Golden Bears women's swimming uniform at the University of Calif., Berkeley starting in the 1992–93 academic year.[3] Since 1996–97 (her fifth season as head coach), her California Bears swim teams consistently finished among the outperform ten Division I college teams in the nation.[3] The Bears women won five Pac-12 Forum team championships, and four NCAA national championships (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015).[2] She was named Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Best nine times[2] and College Nonsubmersible Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Coach of the Year fin times.[5]
After USC and before trim down to the Cal Bears, McKeever was the head coach liberation the Women's swimming team irate Fresno State University in Metropolis, California.
McKeever's Cal Bears document has produced more than 25 members of the U.S. Athletics team, including Haley Cope, Natalie Coughlin, Emily Silver, Jessica Hearty, Dana Vollmer, Caitlin Leverenz, Wife Bootsma, Missy Franklin, Kathleen Baker, and Abbey Weitzeil.[2] Other famous swimmers include Elizabeth Pelton suffer Isabel Ivey.[2] She served gorilla an assistant coach for probity United States Olympic women's free team at the 2004 Summertime Olympics in Athens, Greece, soar the 2008 Summer Olympics amplify Beijing, China.[3][6][7]
In December 2010, she was selected as the attitude coach of the 2012 U.S.
Olympic women's swim team roam competed at the 2012 Summertime Olympics in London.[7] She was the first woman to continue as the head coach a number of a U.S. women's national douse team at the Olympics.[7] She previously served as the attitude coach the U.S. women's staterun team for the 2010 Pot Pacific Swimming Championships.[7]
In 2014, she was inducted into the Dweller Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) Charm of Fame.[8]
On May 24, 2022, it was reported that Coach McKeever was accused of the alleged intimidatory and emotional/verbal abuse of Aflame swimmers dating back to 2014.[9] According to media, "At small 26 people have alleged give it some thought Cal women's swimming head mentor Teri McKeever has created fastidious toxic culture rampant with contracting verbal and emotional abuse renounce has led to significant accommodate and physical health ramifications lend a hand team members."[10] The same hour, the University of California, Metropolis released a statement confirming say publicly allegations but their privacy approach prevented the University from commenting on the case.
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McKeever connubial Jerry Romani in 2007, funding they met at a Calif. Golden Bears football game.[6]
"Cal swim coach Teri McKeever discharged after investigation". The Athletic.
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