Dana Vollmer

Dana Vollmer
Personal information
Full name	Dana Vollmer
Nationality	United States
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, Butterfly
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)
World Championships (SC)
Pan American Games
Summer Universiade
Pan Pacific Championships

Dana Vollmer (born November 13, 1987 in Syracuse, New York) is an American swimmer who previously swan at the college level for the University of Florida and presently competes for Cal-Berkeley. [1]

Though born in New York, she was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Granbury, Texas. As a child, Vollmer swam for coach Ron Forest at the Fort Worth Area Swim Team (FAST).

At age twelve, she was the youngest swimmer competing at the Olympic Trials for the 2000 Olympics; she failed to make the team. She was also the youngest competitor to swim at the 2001 Goodwill Games, At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she was a member of the United States' gold medal winning 4 x 200-Meter Freestyle Relay team; as well as attaining the gold medal, the team broke the previous world record that had stood for seventeen years. On February 25, 2009, she set her first individual American record, breaking Natalie Coughlin's 200-yard Freestyle record with a 1:41.53.

In 2003, Dana underwent heart surgery to correct a condition called Supra Ventricular Tachyardia, which produces a quickened pulse rate of about 240 beats per minute. After that surgery, an EKG indicated that she might have Long QT Syndrome; however, further testing indicated that she did not have the syndrome. Nonetheless, her heart conditions demand that a defibrillator be kept poolside when she swims as a precautionary measure. ^[5]