Full name Daniel Ketchum Club Cincinnati Marlins Height 1.93 m Nickname(s) "Dan" Weight 95 kg | National team United States Name Dan Ketchum Strokes Freestyle swimming Sport Swimming Role Olympic athlete | |
Born October 7, 1981 (age 42) ( 1981-10-07 ) Cincinnati, Ohio Education Syca High School, University of Michigan Olympic medals Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Similar People Michael Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay, Ryan Lochte, Scott Goldblatt, Klete Keller | ||
College team University of Michigan | ||
Daniel Ketchum (born October 7, 1981) is an American former swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Ketchum earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
Ketchum swam for the Cincinnati Marlins swim club as an age group swimmer, and later for Sycamore High School in Cincinnati. While swimming for Sycamore High, he won six individual Ohio state swimming championships in 1998, 1999 and 2000—three each in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events. He then attended the University of Michigan, where he swam for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. He was a member of Michigan's NCAA national championship team in the 800-meter freestyle relay, together with Peter Vanderkaay, Davis Tarwater and Andrew Hurd, in 2004.
He assumed the role of head coach of the swim team at Loveland High School starting in the 2009-10 high school swim season. During his first season as head coach he led the Tigers to their best results in history at the 2010 OHHSA Swimming and Diving Championship Meet where his boys finished 7th overall and the girls finished 14th overall.