The Nation's Capital Swim Club (NCAP) is a swim club in the
Washington Metropolitan area
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the National Capital Region, Greater Washington, or locally as the DMV (short for Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washing ...
. The club was created in 1978 as the Curl-Burke Swim Club. It changed its name to NCAP in September 2012. In 2016,
USA Swimming
USA Swimming is the national governing body for competitive swimming in the United States. It is charged with selecting the United States Olympic Swimming team and any other teams that officially represent the United States, as well as the overa ...
ranked it the top club in the nation as part of its USA Swimming Club Excellence program. It has produced a number of Olympic medalists, including
Mike Barrowman
Michael Ray Barrowman (born December 4, 1968) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Barrowman was one of the pioneers of the "wave-style" breaststroke technique. Prior to attending Universit ...
,
Tom Dolan
Thomas Fitzgerald Dolan (born September 15, 1975) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.
Dolan grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, w ...
,
[Tom Dolan Swim School]
Retrieved April 16, 2013. Mark Henderson (swimmer), Mark Henderson,
Ed Moses,
Jack Conger
John Peet Conger (born September 26, 1994) is an American competition swimming (sport), swimmer who specializes in Butterfly stroke, butterfly and Freestyle swimming, freestyle events. He is an Olympic Games, Olympic gold medalist in the Swimmi ...
,
Andrew Wilson,
Phoebe Bacon
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, and
Katie Ledecky
Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky ( ; born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive Swimming (sport), swimmer. She is the List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women)#Title leaders, most deco ...
.
References
External links
* http://www.nationscapitalswimming.com/
Swimming clubs in the United States
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