Catherine Mai-Lan Fox is an American former competition swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Background
Her father, Thomas C. Fox (editor and former publisher of the National Catholic Reporter), worked in Vietnam for International Voluntary Services from 1966 to 1968, where he met Catherine"s mother, To Kim Hoa, a social worker in Can Tho who married Mr. Fox and moved to the United States in 1972.
Career
She is of Vietnamese and European ethnicity. Fox grew up in Roeland Park, Kansas, attended high school at Bishop Miege and graduated from Stanford University, majoring in human biology and studio art In 2006, she was named to the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.
Membership
Fox competed at the 1995 Pan American Games and was a member of the gold medal-winning 4×200-meter freestyle relay team She made the United States. Olympic team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta as a freestyle swimmer, and was a member of two gold-winning relay teams: the 4×100-meter freestyle (where she swam in the final) and the 4×100-meter medley (where she swam freestyle in a preliminary heat).