Chris Guiliano swims for the University of Notre Dame, and this week earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic Swim Team. It’s the first time a Notre Dame swimmer has qualified for the Olympics.
Guiliano, who hails from Pennsylvania, is a four-time individual ACC champion, five-time NCAA First Team All-American, and helped the Irish to their first-ever top-10 finish at the NCAA Championships in March. He looks to be the first American to swim in both 100 and 200 freestyles at an Olympics since Matt Biondi in 1988.
A handful of other Hoosiers have also made the team.
The Olympic swim trials have been held in Indianapolis this week at a pool constructed inside Lucas Oil Stadium. A record crowd of over 22,000 people turned out for Wednesday’s races.
Fun fact about the swimming pool: It contained 2 million gallons of treated water from the White River in downtown Indy. A single fire hydrant outside Lucas Oil was used to fill the pool.
