Dana Kirk (born June 23, 1984) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympian and Pan American Games medalist.
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Born | Bremerton, Washington, U.S. | June 23, 1984|||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 143 lb (65 kg) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||
College team | Stanford University | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kirk qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in the women's 200-meter butterfly, finishing ninth in the event semifinals.[1]
Kirk attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. During her four-year college swimming career, she amassed seventeen All-American honors and eight Pac-10 Conference titles in the 200-yard medley and 400-yard medley relays, as well as the 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly events. She is currently the fourth fastest 100-yard and 200-yard butterfly swimmer in Stanford history. She graduated from Stanford in 2006.
Kirk's older sister, Tara, joined her on the 2004 USA Women's Olympic Swimming team, becoming the first set of sisters to swim on the same U.S. Olympic Team.
After back surgery, Kirk retired from swimming at the Olympic level. She currently coaches for the Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics (PASA) in Los Altos Hills, California at the Fremont Hills Country Club.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dana Kirk". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on December 4, 2016.
External links
edit- Dana Kirk at World Aquatics
- Dana Kirk at Olympics.com
- Dana Kirk at Olympic.org (archived)
- Dana Kirk at Olympedia
- Dana Kirk at USA Swimming (archived June 3, 2021)
- Dana Kirk at the U.S. Olympic Team at the Wayback Machine (archived May 15, 2008)