Career
Brey swam for the silver medal-winning United States. team in the preliminary heats of the women"s 4×100-meter freestyle relay. Following her Olympic experience, she became the swim coach at George Washington University. Her husband Paul was a high school athletics director in Maryland.
Her son Mike Brey is the men"s basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame, daughter Brenda was a swimmer at Louisiana State University and is a physical education teacher, while son Shane is the assistant athletics director at the University of Central Florida.
Brey graduated from Purdue University in 1953, and served in the United States Army as an officer Brey died March 21, 2015 of a heart attack.
She was 83 years old.