Amanda Beard participated in the 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, winning seven medals.
Bia and Branca Feres twins started practicing swimming and gymnastics at the age of three, and started on synchronized swimming at the age of seven. They reached second place in the Pan American Junior Orlando in 2005. They represented Brazil in the 2007 Pan American games.
Dara Torres is the first swimmer for the United States to compete in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Torres won three silver medals. She has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze) over her career.
Haley is a retired American swimmer. She won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, eight world championship medals, and held a world record in the 50 metre backstroke
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.
Stephanie currently holds the world record in the 400 m individual medley. She won 3 gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Swimming World Magazine named her as the 2008 Female World Swimmer of the Year.
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