Teri McKeever is an American college and Olympic swimming coach.
Background
McKeever was born in 1962. Her father, Mike McKeever, and her father"s twin brother, Marlin McKeever, both attended the University of Southern California, and were both first-team All-American linemen for the University of Southern California Trojans football team in 1959. Her father died in 1967 from head injuries received in a 1965 car accident, after twenty-two months in a coma.
Career
She has been the head coach of the California Golden Bears women"s swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley for the last twenty seasons. McKeever has twice previously served as an assistant coach for the United States Olympic women"s swimming team, and she served as the head coach of the 2012 United States. Olympic women"s swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was the oldest child in a family of ten children.
McKeever attended the University of Southern California ( University of Southern California), where she swam for the University of Southern California Trojans women"s swimming and diving team from 1980 to 1983.
She competed in four National Collegiate Athletic Association national championship and contributed to the Trojans" four straight national top-ten finishes. She received All-America honors in 1980 and 1981, and following her 1983 senior season, she was recognized as the university"s outstanding student-athlete.
She graduated from University of Southern California with a bachelor"s degree in education in 1983, and later earned a master"s degree in athletic administration in 1987. McKeever began coaching as an assistant coach at University of Southern California from 1984 to 1987.
She has been the head coach of the California Golden Bears women"s swimming team at the University of California, Berkeley since 1992-1993.
Since 1996-1997 (her fifth season as head coach), her California Bears swim teams have consistently finished among the top ten Division I college teams in the nation. She previously served as an assistant coach for the United States Olympic women"s swimming team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In December 2010, she was selected as the head coach of the 2012 United States. Olympic women"s swim team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
She is the first woman to serve as the head coach of a United States. women"s national swim team at the Olympics.
She previously served as the head coach the United States. women"s national team for the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. McKeever married Jerry Romani in 2007, after they met at a California Golden Bears football game.
They live in the El Cerrito Hills area of metropolitan San Francisco.
Membership
Her sisters Kristi and Kelli were members of the United States. national field hockey team McKeever"s Cal Bears program has produced several members of the United States. Olympic team, including Natalie Coughlin, Haley Cope, Jessica Hardy, Caitlin Leverenz, Emily Silver, Missy Franklin, Rachel Bootsma, Stephanie Au and Dana Vollmer.