Ashley Ann Whitney (born August 21, 1979) is an American former competition

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who was a

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specialist and an Olympic gold medalist. At the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in Atlanta, Georgia, Whitney earned a gold medal when she swam for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. She was born in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

. For high school, she attended the

Bolles School The Bolles School is an American private college preparatory day and boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida. It has a lower school (including pre-kindergarten), a middle school, and a high school, spread across four campuses around the Jackso ...

, a private prep school in Jacksonville, Florida, where she swam for coach

Gregg Troy Gregg Troy (born December 19, 1950) is an American professional and Olympic swimming coach. As of April 2021, he was the head coach for the Cali Condors, which was part of the International Swimming League. Until 2018, he was the head coach of ...

's Bolles high school swim team, a program with a reputation for producing future international swimmers and Olympians.The Bolles School, Athletics
Bolles Olympic Medalists
. Retrieved March 6, 2015. She graduated from the Bolles School in 1998. Whitney initially attended the

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, where she was a member of coach Jack Bauerle's

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team in 1999—Georgia's first NCAA national championship team. She later transferred to the

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, where she finished her college career swimming for coach

Teri McKeever Terisa "Teri" J. McKeever (born November 6, 1961) is an American former college and Olympic swimming coach. She was the head coach of the California Golden Bears women's swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1993 until ...

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women's swimming and diving team.Whitney's bio
from the Cal Athletics website.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Whitney, Ashley 1979 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers California Golden Bears women's swimmers Florida Gators women's swimmers Georgia Bulldogs women's swimmers Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers from Nashville, Tennessee Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Bolles School alumni 20th-century American sportswomen

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