Daniel Ketchum (born October 7, 1981) is an American former

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and Olympic gold medalist. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Ketchum earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Ketchum spent two years in Ireland from 1994 to 1996, where he was educated at

Villiers School , motto_translation = "The cross is the touchstone of faith" , location = North Circular Road, Limerick , country = Ireland , coordinates = , established = , headmistress= Jill Storey , lower_age = , upper_age = , students = 600 , staff = 3 ...

. He swam for the Cincinnati Marlins swim club as an age group swimmer, and later for Sycamore High School in Cincinnati. While swimming for Sycamore High, he won six individual Ohio state swimming championships in 1998, 1999 and 2000—three each in the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle events. He then attended the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, where he swam for the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team in

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(NCAA) competition. He was a member of Michigan's NCAA national championship team in the 800-meter freestyle relay, together with Peter Vanderkaay, Davis Tarwater and Andrew Hurd, in 2004.MGoBlue.com, Men's Swimming & Diving
Michigan Men's Swimming and Diving All-Time NCAA Champions
. Retrieved February 18, 2013. He assumed the role of head coach of the swim team at Loveland High School starting in the 2009-10 high school swim season. During his first season as head coach he led the Tigers to their best results in history at the 2010 OHHSA Swimming and Diving Championship Meet where his boys finished seventh overall and the girls finished 14th overall.

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* * * * 1981 births Living people American male freestyle swimmers Michigan Wolverines men's swimmers Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers from Cincinnati Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming People educated at Villiers School Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games Universiade bronze medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games {{US-swimming-bio-stub

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