• CLUB: Santa Barbara Swim Club (SBSC-CA)
• DOB: Nov 14, 1979
• HEIGHT: 6' 2" (188.0 cm)
• WEIGHT: 185 lbs (83.9 kg)
• HOMETOWN: Santa Barbara, Calif.
• BIRTHPLACE: Santa Barbara, Calif.
• COACHED BY: John Dussliere

• High School: San Marcos HS '98
• College: USC '03
• College Major: Communication

• Future Professional Aspirations: Possibly coaching if he chooses not to follow in the family business
• Job Outside of Swimming: Works with his father in property management and real estate development
• Parents: John and Marjolein; father is a real estate developer and manager, and mother is a homemaker; John was a decathlete in the 1960s and 70s; graduated from Fresno State and continued to pursue the sport after college; won the national title in 1967 and 1971, and narrowly missed making the Olympic Team
• Spouse: Wife (Diana) is a Christian preschool teacher; they were married Sept. 20, 2003
• Sibling(s): Older sister (Kara) attended USC and was an All-American tennis player; younger brother (Paul) attended Arizona and also played tennis
• Started Swimming: At age 2; "I made a serious commitment when I was 13 with Larry Liebowitz."
• Sports Played Before Swimming: Basketball and soccer
• Hobbies Outside the Pool: Plants trees; "I love avocado and citrus trees. I've planted about 60 of them over the past few years at my parents' 13-acre property."

• Hobbies Outside the Pool: announcing swim meets; official announcer at UCSB; also announcer at USC swim meets and various club meets
• works at his church as a volunteer in the children's ministry with "AWANA"
• Ultimate Way to Relax: Watching TV with his wife
• Sponsor(s): TYR
• Training Stats: Trains mostly on his own at home in Santa Barbara or in Colorado Springs
• "I do an enormous amount of pulling, but very little swimming. I do a lot of cardiovascular dryland."
• Considers open water swimming to be his second chance at a swimming career; "I got into Open Water swimming because I wanted to make the National Team in any event. I realized that the 25k was the easiest race to make the National Team and so I pursued Open Water Swimming. The Olympics were not my goal, the goal was simply to be on the National Team. Once I had success in 2006 I started to realize the potential for the Olympics in the 10k and I rearranged my life to make the Olympic Dream a reality."
• Swam with Lenny Krazleberg, Brad Bridgewater, Lindsay Benko, Erik Vendt, Klete Keller, and Kalyn Keller during college
• swam with Ryk Neethling, Adam Ritter, and Lacey Nymeyer after college
• Favorites:
  • Movie: Chariots of Fire
  • t.v. show: Lost
  • music: Jeremy Camp, Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline

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