Natalie Cammile Adams (born September 11, 1991) is an American competition

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who specializes in

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events. She represented the United States in the 200-meter butterfly event at the

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and the

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in the same event.

Career

Adams was born in

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on September 11, 1991, and graduated from

Cypress Woods High School Cypress Woods High School, commonly known as Cy Woods, is a secondary school located in Cypress, Texas, Cypress, which is an unincorporated area of Harris County, Texas, Harris County, Texas, United States, near Houston, Texas, Houston. Since t ...

Cypress, Texas Cypress is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, United States, located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston. The Cypress area is located along U.S. Route 290 (Northwest Freeway) is twenty ...

. At 15, at the UIL State Championships at Austin in February, 2007, she placed second in the 100 butterfly with a 55.97 and third in the 500 freestyle. At 17, in July 2009, she placed fourth in the U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis in the women' s 200 Butterfly with a time of 2:10.25. At 18, at the UIL 5A Texas State Championship in February 2010, swimming for Cypress Woods High, she placed only fifth in the 100-yard butterfly with a 54.66, but demonstrating strong endurance training, won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:47.27. Adams attended

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in College Station, Texas, where she swam for the

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swimming and diving team in

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(NCAA) competition from 2011 to 2014 under Hall of Fame head coach Steve Bultman. In four years of swimming for the Aggies, she won four

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individual championships in the 200-yard butterfly, 500-yard freestyle, and 400-yard individual medley (twice). At the 2012

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, she finished second in the 200-yard butterfly and was recognized as an

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. As a senior, Adams won the 200-yard butterfly at the 2014 NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships.

Olympics

At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the U.S. qualifying meet for the Olympics, Adams made the U.S. Olympic team for the first time by winning the 200-meter butterfly with the top qualifying time of 2:06.76. Adams also competed in the 400-meter individual medley at the trials, and finished third with a time of 4:38.62. At the

in London, she finished fifth in the finals of the women's 200-meter butterfly with a time of 2:06.78 Results of the final on the BBC Sport website
/ref> To prepare for the 2016 Olympics, she trained with head coach David Marsh at SwimMAC, in Charlotte, North Carolina, who would also direct her as the Head Coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and had coached swimming at Auburn University."Fowler", ''The Charlotte Observer'', Charlotte, North Carolina, 24 June 2016, pg. B3 At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio on August 10, just missing the bronze medal, she finished fourth in the finals of the women's 200-meter butterfly with a career best time of 2:05.90. Competing in the 200-meter butterfly, her signature event in international competition, in the Pan Pacifics, she won a gold in 2014, and in 2015 won a silver medal in the World Aquatics Championships.

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External links

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Cammile Adams – Texas A&M University athlete profile at AggieAthletics.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Cammile 1991 births Living people American female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for the United States Swimmers from Houston Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Texas A&M Aggies women's swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century American sportswomen

Career

Olympics

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