Carly Piper
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Birth name | Carly Piper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Carly Ryan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S. | September 23, 1983|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 179 lb (81 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Shane Ryan (2014–present) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SwimMAC Carolina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Wisconsin–Madison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carly Piper (born September 23, 1983), also known by her married name Carly Ryan, is a former American professional competitive swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. As part of the American team, she helped set a new world record in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay (long course).
Personal[]
Piper was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in 1983, the daughter of Kenneth and Carol Ann Piper. Her father worked for General Dynamics, a defense contractor, and her mother was an aerobics instructor. Piper has one older sister, Cortney, who is also a swimmer and swam for the University of Tennessee. Piper is a 2001 graduate of Grosse Pointe North High School in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Piper attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated in 2006, majoring in zoology. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she had a highly successful career on the women's swimming team and served as the team's captain. She twice won Big Ten Conference swimmer of the year honors and was an 18-time All-American. While still in school, and after she had exhausted her athletic eligibility, she served as a volunteer assistant coach with the Wisconsin Badgers swimming teams.
Carly married swim coach Shane Ryan on May 16, 2014. In 2015 they started their coach owned team called the Madison Aquatic Club, located in Madison, WI. Shane and Carly have a son, Clint Murray, and daughter named Piper Autumn Ryan who was born in 2016.
Swimming career[]
At the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Piper qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics by finishing 5th in the 200-meter freestyle.[1] She also placed 6th in the 400-meter freestyle.[2]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Piper won a gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin Sandeno, and Dana Vollmer that set the world record in the event.[3][4] On December 20, 2004 it was declared "Carly Piper Day" in Piper's hometown of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan for her accomplishments in Athens.[5]
See also[]
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- Pan American Games records in swimming
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References[]
- ^ "2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's 200 m freestyle (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved May 20, 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Women's 400 m freestyle (final)" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved May 20, 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "US Women Break the Oldest World Record in the Book, the 800 Freestyle Relay". Swimming World Magazine. August 18, 2004. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carly Piper". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
- ^ "Dream Big: Wisconsin's Golden Girl". bigten.org. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
External links[]
- Carly Ryan at USA Swimming
- Carly Piper at FINA
- Carly Piper at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee
(archive)
- Carly Piper at Olympics.com
- Carly Piper at Olympic.org (archived)
- Carly Piper at Olympedia
- Carly Piper biography at University of Wisconsin–Madison at the Wayback Machine (archived May 5, 2012)
- My Journey to the Olympics…and Back by Carly Piper at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-06-17)
- 1983 births
- Living people
- American female freestyle swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- People from Grosse Pointe, Michigan
- Sportspeople from Michigan
- Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Wisconsin Badgers women's swimmers
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Wisconsin Badgers swimming coaches
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games