34 Facts About Allison Schmitt

Allison Schmitt is a four-time Olympian and a ten-time Olympic medalist.

Allison Schmitt was the only second-time captain for the US Olympic swim team at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In total, Allison Schmitt has won twenty-five medals in major international competitions: thirteen gold, nine silver, and three bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American Games.

Allison Schmitt was a four-time National Collegiate Athletic Association national champion in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle swimming events during college, and was a member of the Georgia Bulldogs team that won the NCAA Division I Women's team title in 2013.

Allison Schmitt was named SwimSwam's Swammy Award-winner for Female Swimmer of the Year in 2012.

Allison Schmitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1990 to Ralph and Gail Allison Schmitt.

Allison Schmitt's father is a financial analyst and her mother is a system project manager.

Allison Schmitt considers her parents to have been the most influential and helpful people in her life.

Allison Schmitt has an older sister named Kirsten who earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, and her Juris Doctor degree from the School of Law at Washington University in St Louis.

Allison Schmitt's older brother, Derek, swam for the University of Pittsburgh, and is an assistant coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils swim team in Tempe, Arizona.

Allison Schmitt started swimming at age eight, saying she followed her older sister, Kirsten, into it.

Allison Schmitt said she started to show real potential, later, in the spring of her junior year in high school when she went to a 2007 Junior National Team competition.

Allison Schmitt went to Canton High School in Canton Township, Michigan, from which she graduated in the spring of 2008.

Allison Schmitt joined coach Jack Bauerle's Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team, following her competition in the Summer Olympics under Bauerle, who was the women's swimming head coach.

Allison Schmitt participated in NCAA competition during her freshman, sophomore and junior years, ultimately becoming a four-time NCAA national champion by winning the 500-yard freestyle in 2009,2010, and 2011, and the 200-yard freestyle in 2010.

Allison Schmitt's anguish led to bad swimming results, leading her to not qualify for various international competitions.

Allison Schmitt wrote on the bio form for her USA Swimming organization membership that she enjoys scrapbooking, photography, playing outdoor sports and board games; and that her ultimate way to relax is watching a movie or getting a massage.

Swimming the lead-off leg, Allison Schmitt recorded a split time of 1:57.71 and the American team finished with a time of 7:46.33, an American record.

Allison Schmitt competed in the 200-meter freestyle, but did not advance past the semifinals, finishing in ninth place with a time of 1:58.01.

Allison Schmitt competed in the individual 200-meter freestyle and finished sixth in the final.

At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the US qualifying meet for the 2012 Olympics, Allison Schmitt made the US Olympic team by finishing first in the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle, and third in the 100-meter freestyle.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Allison Schmitt won a total of five medals: three gold, one silver, and one bronze.

Swimming the anchor leg, Allison Schmitt had a split of 53.54 seconds and the team finished with a total time of 3:34.24, an American record.

Allison Schmitt won the first individual Olympic medal of her career, a silver, in the 400-meter freestyle, and in doing so, set the American record for the event.

Swimming the freestyle leg, Allison Schmitt recorded a time of 53.25, and the American team went on to set the world record with a time of 3:52.05, bettering the Chinese-owned record of 3:52.19 set in 2009.

The 2016 United States Olympic Trials saw Allison Schmitt finishing fourth at the 200m, qualifying her to the relay team.

Allison Schmitt became the ninth American female swimmer to appear in three Olympics, and only she and Elizabeth Beisel were members of each team since 2008.

Allison Schmitt was named one of the captains of the US Olympic Swim Team, alongside Phelps, Beisel, Nathan Adrian, Anthony Ervin, and Cammile Adams.

August 2018, Allison Schmitt won a silver medal as part of the women's 4x200-meter relay at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo, Japan swimming the first leg of the relay in a 1:58.62.

In July 2019, Allison Schmitt competed at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.

Allison Schmitt won two silver medals, one in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay and one in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay.

Later in the same day, Allison Schmitt competed in the semifinals of the same event swimming a 1:57.53, ranking 4th, and advancing to the final.

Allison Schmitt was selected to serve as a USA swim team captain at the 2020 Summer Olympics, making it the second time she had been selected to serve as an Olympic team captain and making her the only second-time American swim team captain at the 2020 Olympics.

The next day, Allison Schmitt finished tenth overall with a time of 1:56.87 in the semifinals and did not qualify for the final.