Background
Weber-Gale is Jewish, and was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Weber-Gale is Jewish, and was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
University of Texas at Austin.
He competed for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team of the University of Texas from 2003 to 2007. His time of 21.47 in the 50-meter was an American record. By clocking a time of 47.78 in the prelims of the 100 freestyle at the Trials, he became the first American to break 48 seconds in that event.
Weber-Gale also earned a gold medal for his contribution in the heats of the 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Weber-Gale also competed in both the 50 m and 100 m freestyle events but did not advance past the semifinals of either one. At the 2009 United States of America Nationals and World Championships trials, Weber-Gale placed third in the 100 m freestyle in 48.19.
He also tied for second with Cullen Jones in the 50m freestyle in 21.55, which required a swim-off to decide who would get to compete in the event at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. At the 2009 World Championships, Weber-Gale swam the lead-off leg of the 4 × 100 m freestyle preliminaries in 48.30.
He earned a gold medal in the event when the United States placed first in the final.
In 2013, Weber-Gale was chosen to be the flag bearer for Team United States of America at the opening ceremonies of the 19th Maccabiah. Weber-Gale began his competitive career as a Young Men’s Christian Association age-group swimmer at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. He refined his stroke training in Austin, Texas, swimming with Circle C (now Longhorn Aquatics).
In 2003, he set a national public high school record while at Nicolet High School in the 100-yard (91 m) freestyle with a time of 43.49.
Weber-Gale married in Austin, Texas, in the fall of 2013. Attell was elected to the International Jewish Sports "s induction class of 2015.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Weber-Gale was as a member of the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team in a final that has been heralded as the best relay in the history of swimming.