Dana Vollmer

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Women's Swimming
Olympic medal record
Gold	2004	4 x 200 m freestyle relay

Dana Vollmer (born November 13, 1987 in Syracuse, New York) is an American swimmer who presently competes at the college level at Cal-Berkeley.

Though born in New York, she was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Granbury, Texas.

She was a member of the United States' 4 x 200-Meter Freestyle Relay team, along with Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, and Kaitlin Sandeno, that won the Gold Medal and broke the 17-year-old world record at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. At both the trials for the 2000 Summer Olympics (she didn't make the team), and the 2001 Goodwill Games, Vollmer was the youngest competitor there at the ages of 12 and 13, respectively. Young Dana suffers from a heart condition, the second one she's going through (she already had surgery to repair the first one in 2003). An EKG found Long QT though she is not diagnosed with Long QT Syndrome. Vollmer's heart diagnosis demands a nearby AED (defibrillator) as a precautionary measure. The 2003 surgery corrected a separate condition known as SVT (Supra Ventricular Tachyardia), a condition that produces a quickened pulse rate of about 240 beats per minute.