Background
Salmeen was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Annette Salmeen
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Education
Street John"s College; University of California, Los Los Angeles University of Oxford.
Career
She was a competitive swimmer by the age of 9, and became a standout swimmer at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, where she was co-captain of the girls" swimming team for two years. Salmeen qualified for the United States. Olympic Team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned a gold medal for swimming for the winning United States. team in the preliminary heats of the women"s 4×200-meter freestyle relay. In individual competition at the Olympics, she finished 4th in the B Final (12th overall) in the women"s 200-meter butterfly.
Salmeen graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, and was awarded a to pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) in biochemistry at Oxford University.
She earned her doctorate in 2001, and returned to the United States. as a postdoctoral fellow at In 2005, she was named to the board of the United States Anti-Doping Agency and again came back to where she teaches as of 2015.
Achievements
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While at Huron, Salmeen was three-time state champion in the 500-yard freestyle, and once in the 100-yard butterfly. Salmeen went on to swim at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles), where she was a co-captain, four-time All-American, and a National Collegiate Athletic Association national champion in the 200-yard butterfly. She won a bronze medal in the 200-meter butterfly at the 1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan.
Membership
During her four years at Street John"s College, Oxford, she was a member of the Oxford University Swimming Club, where she set three long-course records and six on the short-course.
