Marylyn Chiang

Marylyn Chiang

Personal information
Nationality	Canada
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	backstroke
College team	University of California, Berkley
Medal record World Championships (SC) Silver 2000 Athens 50 m backstroke Silver 2000 Athens 100 m backstroke

Marylyn Chiang (born 1977)^[1] is a former Canadian swimmer who won two silver medals at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece.^[2] She has held Commonwealth, US Open, NCAA and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years. In her collegiate career, she led a resurgence in University of California, Berkley's swimming program, when she won the first NCAA title for the school in the sport in eleven years.^[3] In so doing, she set an NCAA record. Further, won the first of five consecutive Pacific-10 Conference female swimmer of the year honors for the Golden Bears in 1999.^[4] Haley Cope would win in 2000, and Natalie Coughlin three times in a row, from 2001 to 2003.^[5] In 2009, Marylyn was inducted in Cal Berkeley's Sports Hall of Fame.^[6]

References

1. ^ "Swimming Times- Results for Marylyn Chiang". http://www.swimmingtimes.com/db/swimmer.php?sw=5091&mti=129. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
2. ^ "Swimming- Marylyn Chiang (Canada)". http://www.the-sports.org/swimming-chiang-marylyn-results-identity-s10-c2-b4-o19-w81457.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
3. ^ "Cal's Marylyn Chiang Captures NCAA Swim Title in 100 back". http://www.calbears.com/sports/w-swim/spec-rel/032099aaa.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
4. ^ "UC Berkley's Natalie Coughlin, Destined to Swim". http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/04/08_coughlin.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
5. ^ "Cal Aquatics- Where are They Now?". http://www.calaquatics.com/celebrate/where.html. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
6. ^ "Cal Athletic Hall of Fame Class Inducted Friday Night". Cal Athletics Official Site. 6 November 2009. http://www.calbears.com/genrel/052909aac.html. Retrieved 15 February 2010. 

External links

• University of California, Berkley Year book entry

Persondata
Name	Chiang, Marylyn
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Date of birth	1977
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