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Jeremy Porter Linn (born January 6, 1975) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. Linn set an American record in the 100-meter breaststroke while winning the silver medal in that event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Mark Henderson, Gary Hall Jr., Jeff Rouse and Linn set a new world record in the men's 400-medley medley relay. Linn was known for his unusual warm-up routine and unorthodox swim sets. A typical warm-up set consisted of flips off the blocks. Linn was given the nickname "The Goat" due to his facial hair. Linn attended the University of Tennessee from 1995 to 1998, where he was a member of the Tennessee Volunteers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC0 competition. He was a seventeen-time All-American.〔(University of Tennessee Website, 2011, Tennessee's All Americas )〕 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 U.S. 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. Linn coached three swimmers to national championship qualifying times and he also coached three of the four QDD women in the 200-meter freestyle 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.〔http://virginiaswimming.org/Meets/Senior%20Champs%20Meets/Archive/2006-2007/SC/2007%20VSI%20SC%20Senior%20Champs%20Meet%20Results.htm〕 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 Nations Capital swim team〔(Curl-Burke/West Website, 2011, Coaching Staff )〕 in northern Virginia. ==See also== * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of University of Tennessee people * World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremy Linn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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