Kicker Vencill

Kicker Vencill

Kicker Vencill is an American swimmer who won a lawsuit against a dietary supplement company for having contaminated multi-vitamins which caused him to be suspended from swimming for two years from 2003, even though they were prescribed to him by his doctor. [http://www.usolympicteam.org/73_32995.htm SWIMMING: 20 Questions with USA Swimming's Kicker Vencill] The court awarded him over US$500,000. [http://swimming.about.com/b/a/169829.htm?p=1 Swimmer's Doping Ban Due to Contaminated Vitamins]

He first started swimming at four, for a country club, in Richmond, Kentucky. He went onto swim for Model Laboratory in high school and Western Kentucky in college.

He represented America at the 2001 World University Games

His fiancée is Beth Botsford.

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