Dara Torres
Dara Torres, born in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of eight she entered competitive swimming. Torres was 12 when she set a national age-group swim record. Upon entering her teens at Westlake School in Los Angeles, she received a “Most Likely to Break a Record in the Guinness Book” citation. She has more medals than most Olympians with 12 to her name, four of them gold. That’s more successful than most of us can hope for, and she decided to cut her off because of her injuries. Torres had to undergo surgery for her knees and stopped competitive swimming. In 2012, she pursued modeling as a career, in addition to being a TV correspondent. Torres still swims as a celebrity swimmer for a cancer research-funding charity called Swim Across America. She was considered the oldest swimmer on Olympic history at 41 years old. Commentator TV sports, NBC, ESPN, TNT, Fox News, Fox Sports, and CNN; research assistant, NBC Sports; spokesperson Tae-Bo workout tapes; host, Discovery Channel.
Dara Torres
Allison Schmitt
Allison Schmitt has won eight Olympic medals by swimming for the US team so far, and there’s a chance we’ll see even more medals in the future. In 2008’s Beijing Games, she won only a bronze medal, but in 2012 in London, she won five medals. Three were gold, and Schmitt helped set a world record in a relay race. Besides international competitions, she was a four-time NCAA swimming champion in the 200 and 500-yard dashes. Schmitt has one more internship left before earning her master’s degree and preparing for a career in the mental health field.
Allison Schmitt