Josh Davis (swimmer)
![]() Davis signing autographs, c. 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Joshua Clark Davis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1972-09-01) September 1, 1972 (age 51) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Texas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Eddie Reese, Kris Kubik (U. of Texas) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joshua Clark Davis (born September 1, 1972) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. Davis represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics.
College and international career
He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he swam for coach Eddie Reese and Associate Coach Kris Kubik's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition.[1]
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, he won gold medals by swimming for the winning U.S. teams in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He earned a third gold medal by swimming for the first-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the 4×100-meter medley relay. He also competed in the 200-meter freestyle, and finished seventh in the event final with a time of 1:48.54.
Four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he served as the captain of the U.S. swimming team. At the 2000 Olympics, he won silver medals swimming for the second-place U.S. teams in the preliminary heats of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and the final of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He again competed in the 200-meter freestyle, finishing in fourth place in the final with a time of 1:46.73.
He also swam for the U.S. national team at:
- World Championships: 1994, 1998
- Pan American Games: 1995
- Pan Pacific Championships: 1993, 1997, 1999
- World University Games: 1995
- Short Course Worlds: 2000
Life outside competitive swimming
Completed in 2001, the Josh Davis Natatorium, one of the two natatoriums part of North East ISD's Virgil T. Blossom Athletic Center (the district where Davis attended school) in San Antonio was named in his honor.[2]
In February 2009 four of Davis' Olympic medals—three gold medals and one silver medal—were stolen from his car after he returned from a swim clinic in St. Louis.[3] On February 13, 2009, cleanup crews found the medals outside one of the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Clubs in San Antonio. The medals were returned to Davis at a news conference later that night.[4]
On June 1, 2016, Davis was named as the first coach of Oklahoma Christian University's swimming programs, charged with building men's and women's teams for competition that will begin with the 2017-18 season. It is Davis' first collegiate coaching job.[5][6] Oklahoma Christian University is currently the only college in Oklahoma offering intercollegiate swimming.[7]
Davis and his wife Shantel live in Edmond, Oklahoma, and have six children.[5]
See also
- Bill Boomer, swimming coach
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
- List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- List of University of Texas at Austin alumni
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
- ^ "Texas Sports Hall of Fame, Kris Kubik". Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
- ^ Josh Davis Natatorium to be Dedicated Archived August 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Lane 9 News, May 10, 2001 Swimming World
- ^ "U.S. Olympic swimmer Davis reports four stolen medals". Sports Illustrated. February 11, 2009. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009.
- ^ US Swimmer Josh Davis Olympic Medals Found and Returned sports.yahoo.com, February 13, 2009
- ^ a b "Josh Davis - Head Coach - Staff Directory". Oklahoma Christian Eagles.
- ^ "OC adds swimming; Olympic champ to coach teams | Vision | Oklahoma Christian University". www.oc.edu. Archived from the original on September 21, 2016.
- ^ "New swim coach brings Olympic podium to campus". September 2016.
External links
- US Olympic Committee
- SanAntonioSports.com
- Josh Davis homepage
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- Ray Carey
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- Tom Dolan
- David Fox
- Kurt Grote
- Gary Hall Jr.
- John Hargis
- Mark Henderson
- Joe Hudepohl
- Jeremy Linn
- Tom Malchow
- Eric Namesnik
- Jon Olsen (team captain)
- John Piersma
- Jeff Rouse (team captain)
- Brad Schumacher
- Tripp Schwenk
- Scott Tucker
- Peter Wright
- Eric Wunderlich
- Amanda Beard
- Brooke Bennett
- Beth Botsford
- Janet Evans (team captain)
- Catherine Fox
- Whitney Hedgepeth
- Trina Jackson
- Lisa Jacob
- Angel Martino
- Whitney Metzler
- Kristine Quance
- Annette Salmeen
- Jilen Siroky
- Sheila Taormina
- Cristina Teuscher
- Jenny Thompson
- Melanie Valerio
- Amy Van Dyken
- Allison Wagner
- Ashley Whitney
- Skip Kenney (men's head coach)
- David Marsh
- Richard Quick (women's head coach)
- Eddie Reese
- Mark Schubert
- Jonty Skinner
- Murray Stephens
- Gregg Troy
- Jon Urbanchek