Teri McKeever
| Sport(s) | Swimming |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | University of California |
| Conference | Pac-12 Conference |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1962 |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1993–present | California |
| 2004 | U.S. Olympic (Asst.) |
| 2008 | U.S. Olympic (Asst.) |
| 2010 | Pan Pac Championships |
| 2010 | World Championships (25m) |
| 2012 | U.S. Olympic |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
|
Pac-12 Championship (2009, 2011, 2012) NCAA Championship (2009, 2011, 2012) |
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Teri McKeever (born c. 1962) is an American college and Olympic swimming coach. She has been the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley for the last twenty seasons. Her Cal Bears teams have won three NCAA national championships. McKeever has twice previously served as an assistant coach for the United States Olympic women's swimming team, and she served as the head coach of the 2012 U.S. Olympic women's swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
McKeever was born in 1962. She was the oldest child in a family of ten children. Her father, Mike McKeever, and her father's twin brother, Marlin McKeever, both attended the University of Southern California, and were both first-team All-American linemen for the USC Trojans football team in 1959. Her father died in 1967 from head injuries received in a 1965 car accident, after twenty-two months in a coma. Her mother later remarried, had seven more children with her second husband. The family athletic influence remained strong, with all of her nine siblings participating in a variety of sports. Her sisters Kristi and Kelli were members of the U.S. national field hockey team.
McKeever attended the University of Southern California (USC), where she swam for the USC Trojans women's swimming and diving team from 1980 to 1983. She competed in four NCAA national championship and contributed to the Trojans' four straight national top-ten finishes. She received All-America honors in 1980 and 1981, and following her 1983 senior season, she was recognized as the university's outstanding student-athlete. She graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in education in 1983, and later earned a master's degree in athletic administration in 1987.
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