Name: | Tim McKee |
Occupation: | Swimmer |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | March 14, 1953 |
Age: | 67 |
Country: | United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Pisces |
Tim McKee
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Before Fame
He grew up in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania graduated from Malvern Preparatory School.
Biography
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McKee was born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth of nine children in his family; his father Alexander “Big Al” McKee was a former All-American for Ohio State University’s Buckeye swimming and diving team in the late 1930s. While McKee was a child, his parents moved the family to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, so that he and his siblings could walk through a path in their backyard to the Suburban Swim Club to practice, where his father served as coach from 1962 to 1968. Three of his brothers and two of sisters achieved some measure of national or international recognition as competition swimmers. McKee graduated from Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania in 1971.
After high school, McKee accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Bill Harlan’s Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and Southeastern Conference (SEC) competition from 1972 to 1974. He followed his older brother Mark to Gainesville, where Mark McKee was an All-American swimmer for the Florida Gators from 1969 to 1971. As a freshman in 1972, he finish fourth in the 200-yard backstroke, and fifth in the 400-yard individual medley, as the Florida Gators finished seventh overall at the NCAA men’s swimming championships. In his three years as a Gator swimmer, McKee was recognized as the SEC Swimmer of the Year in 1972, won six SEC individual titles, and received four All-American honors.
At the 1972 Olympics, McKee garnered a second silver medal in the men’s 200-meter individual medley (2:08.37), again finishing behind gold medalist Larsson, who set a new world record in the event (2:07.17). He also placed fifth in the final of the men’s 200-meter backstroke (2:07.29).
McKee was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a “Gator Great” in 1987, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an “Honor Swimmer” in 1998. He is a veteran celebrity swimmer for Swim Across America (SAA), a charitable organization that raises funds for cancer research, and has participated in sixteen SAA events. He has worked in Miami Beach, Florida as a life guard and public safety officer for over 20 years, has also worked in real estate, and has helped train other Olympic swimmers including Nancy Hogshead. McKee married his wife Courtney, a former competition swimmer, in 1998.
🎂 Upcoming Birthday
Currently, Tim McKee is 69 years, 3 months and 16 days old. Tim McKee will celebrate 70th birthday on a Tuesday 14th of March 2023.
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