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Dara Torres

B.S. Telecommunication, 1990

Dara is a twelve-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three swimming events. Torres is the first and only swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008), and, at age 41, was the oldest swimmer ever to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won silver medals in all three events.

Torres has won a total of twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze). She won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics when, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.

Torres has worked in television as a reporter and announcer for networks NBC, ESPN, TNT, OLN and Fox News Channel, and hosted the golf show The Clubhouse on the Resort Sports Network. She has also worked as a model and was the first elite swimmer to model swimwear in the 1994 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.