Natalie Coughlin of US Team is Half Filipina wins Gold
Written by Ms. Confuse on Sunday, August 17, 2008
Natalie Anne Coughlin born August 23, 1982 in Vallejo, California is a American swimmer who has represented the United States at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, and at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. She won multiple medals at both of these Games and became the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. She is known for her dominance in a short course pool and for her underwater kicking ability. She currently holds World, American and US Open records in various events. Born to Jim and Zennie Coughlin on August 23, 1982. Coughlin lives in Lafayette, California, was originally from Concord, California and is of Filipino and Irish heritage. As of April 2008, she is engaged to Crow Canyon Sharks swim team coach Ethan Hall; they are planning an April 2009 wedding.
Prior to the 2004 Olympics, she was a student-athlete at Carondelet High School in Concord CA, Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, then later at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a BA in psychology in 2005. She had won twelve National Collegiate Athletic Association Swimmer of the Year honors in her first three years at the university. Coughlin worked as an in-studio host for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.
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