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Jill Sterkel<\/strong> is revered both for her swimming and coaching talents. At the age of 10, Sterkel swam in her first US National Championship meet. At 14, she qualified for her first Pan American Games. Sterkel continued to assert her dominance in the swimming world by making four straight Olympic teams (1976, 1980, 1984, 1988), winning medals at each\u2014including the famed 4×100 freestyle relay in 1976.<\/p>\n

Sterkel was seen as a leader by her fellow teammates and was nominated captain of the US Olympic team three times (1980, 1984, 1988). By becoming a member of four Olympic squads, she surpassed every other American swimmer in the first 92 years of the modern Olympiad.<\/p>\n

Throughout her collegiate career at the University of Texas, Sterkel won 20 U.S. National Championships and 21 NCAA\/AIAW National Championships. In 1986, Jill Sterkel was named assistant women\u2019s coach at her alma mater and became head coach of the program from 1992 to 2006.<\/p>\n

While coaching at the University of Texas, two of Sterkel’s athletes qualified for the 2000 Olympic Team: Whitney Hedgepath<\/strong> in and Erin Phenix<\/strong>. Hedgepath won silver medals in the 100m and 200m backstrokes and gold on the 4x100m medley relay, while Phenix won gold on the 4x100m freestyle relay.<\/p>\n

Sterkel was one of the first female coaches to break into the boys\u2019 club hierarchy arguably still in place today. Her first job coaching at the world championship level was as an assistant women\u2019s swimming coach for the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. She was then named assistant women\u2019s coach for the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka.<\/p>\n

Penny Dean<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Penny Dean<\/strong> is a distance and open water swimming pioneer. Dean began swimming at only 20 months old. By the age of 10, she came just 400 meters short of swimming the length of the Golden Gate Bridge. Determined to wash away the disappointment of that failure, Dean put every fiber of her being into becoming the most successful open water swimmer possible.<\/p>\n
In 1976, she swam from the mainland of California to Catalina Island in world record time of 7 hours, 15 minutes and 55 seconds – smashing the former record by one and a half hours. In 1980, Dean was ready to take on the English Channel.<\/p>\n
At this point, a mere 18 percent of swimmers had completed the English Channel, and Dean was ready to join them. Despite the chilling 55 degree water and persistent tides, she finished the swim in a record-shattering 7 hours and 40 minutes. Her record would stand for a whopping 15 years, until Chad Hundeby<\/strong> broke it in 1995.<\/p>\n
After three more years of swimming dominance, Dean dove into the coaching scene. She served as a coach for the US National Team of Open Water Swimming from 1988 through 1991. She was also the head coach of the 1991 US Pan Pacific Championship team, the 1991 World Championships and several other elite championship teams.<\/p>\n
Capitalizing on her gift of teaching, Dean served for 25 years at Pomona College in the following three roles: professor, head swim coach and water polo coach. She sat as the president of the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) from 1985 to 1987 and served on the NCAA Swimming Committee.<\/p>\n
Dean has also dabbled in sports writing with a focus on open water and marathon swimming. Two of her most famous articles include How to Swim a Marathon<\/em> and\u00a0History of the Catalina Swims<\/em>. She has presented numerous international clinics on marathon and open water swimming, and her legacy continues to impact the swimming world today.<\/p>\n
Teri McKeever<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Teri McKeever<\/strong>, our final trailblazer, is one of the most accomplished female coaches in the history of the sport. She had a successful swimming career herself, competing at the Division I NCAAs all four years and helping her team to four top-10 finishes. She began her coaching career just one year after graduating from USC, serving as the assistant coach from 1984 to 1987. While coaching there, she helped develop several All-Americans.<\/p>\n
After USC, McKeever went on to coach at Fresno State for five years. From 1988 to 1992, she coached the women\u2019s and men\u2019s team from 1990 to 1992.<\/p>\n
Since 1992, McKeever has been the head women\u2019s coach for the Golden Bears at the University of California-Berkeley. Under her leadership, the women\u2019s team has won four team NCAA and PAC-12 championships.<\/p>\n
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McKeever has coached 26 Olympians, including Natalie Coughlin<\/strong>, Dana Vollmer<\/strong>, Missy Franklin<\/strong> and Kathleen Baker<\/strong>. The medal count between these 26 swimmers totals 36 – an average of 1.38 medals per swimmer.<\/p>\n
McKeever infiltrated the male hierarchy of international coaching to become the first ever female coach of the US Olympic Team in 2012. Before this accomplishment, McKeever served as a two-time assistant coach of the US Olympic Team, six-time assistant to the US World Championships Team and two-time head coach of the US Pan Pacs Team. The same year, she served as head coach of the US World Short Course Championships.<\/p>\n
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Women like Sterkel, Dean, and McKeever exemplify what women can accomplish in the world of swimming – and beyond. The key to gender equality in coaching is representation. No amount of rhetoric is as effective in inspiring young women as seeing strong women in action.<\/p>\n
Commentary: <\/strong>All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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