Terisa "Teri" J McKeever was born on November 6,1961 and is an American former college and Olympic swimming coach.
15 Facts About Teri McKeever
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Teri McKeever 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.
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Teri McKeever was born on November 6,1961, to athletic parents Judy and Mike Teri McKeever, the oldest child in a family of ten children.
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Teri McKeever started swimming and observing the role of a coach at an early age, with her mother Judy coaching her, her brothers, and other youngsters at the Hidden Valley Swim club in the 25-yard pool in their back yard.
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When Teri McKeever was only six years old, her father Mike died in 1967 from head injuries received in a 1965 car accident, after twenty-two months in a coma.
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Teri McKeever attended the University of Southern California, where she swam for the USC Trojans women's swimming and diving team under Hall of Fame Head Coach Peter Daland from 1980 to 1983 was a member of the international women's fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta by 1981.
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Teri McKeever competed in four NCAA national championships and contributed to the Trojans' four straight national top-ten finishes.
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Teri McKeever received All-America honors in swimming in 1980 and 1981, and following her 1983 senior season, was recognized as the university's outstanding student-athlete.
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Teri McKeever graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in education in 1983, and later earned a master's degree in athletic administration in 1987.
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Teri McKeever began coaching as an assistant coach at USC from 1984 to 1987.
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Teri McKeever was named Pacific-10 Conference Coach of the Year nine times and College Swimming Coaches Association of America Coach of the Year five times.
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Teri McKeever 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.
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Teri McKeever was the first woman to serve as the head coach of a US women's national swim team at the Olympics.
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Teri McKeever previously served as the head coach the US women's national team for the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
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Teri McKeever married Jerry Romani in 2007, after they met at a California Golden Bears football game.