Jeremy Linn

This article is about the Olympic swimmer. For the professional basketball player, see Jeremy Lin.

Jeremy Linn

Personal information
Born	January 6, 1975
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for the United States Olympic Games Gold Atlanta 1996 4x100 m medley Silver Atlanta 1996 100 m breaststroke

Jeremy Porter Linn (born January 6, 1975 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania), set an American record in the one hundred meter breaststroke category while winning the silver medal in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

In Atlanta, Mark Henderson, Gary Hall Jr., Jeff Rouse, and Linn set the world record in the 400m medley relay. Linn is known for his unusual warm-up routine.

Linn attended the University of Tennessee from 1995–98 where he was a seventeen-time NCAA All-American in swimming. Linn won eleven SEC swimming titles-six individual and five relay. He also helped the Tennessee Volunteers win an SEC team championship in 1996. At the national level, he won four individual NCAA titles. Linn held the NCAA and US Open record in the 100 yard breaststroke until 2007, that record was broken by Mike Alexandrov of Northwestern University.

Linn was the Senior Coach at the QDD Swim Team in Manassas, Virginia from September 2004 until August 2007. Jeremy coached three swimmers to National Championship qualifying times and he also coached three of the four QDD women in the 200 Free Relay to the VSI State Senior Championships for short course in 2007, breaking the meet record and nearly breaking the five year old state record. Linn coached 11 QDD athletes whom achieved USA Swimming's Scholastic All American status for the 2006–07 school year, Linn coached for Tar Heel Aquatic Team, in Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina from August 2007 to December 2007. He now coaches for the Curl-Burke swim team in northern Virginia.

External links

• sports-reference
• QDD
• Curl-Burke Swim Club
• VA Swimming