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SwimSwam Magazine 2020 Year in Review Cover Feature – Lilly King

Full Name:	Mel Monroe Stewart
Nickname(s):	Gold Medal Mel, Mel
Born:	November 16th, 1968
	Gastonia, North Carolina
Nationality:	United States
Status:	Retired

MEL STEWART Jr., aka Gold Medal Mel, won three Olympic medals at the 1992 Olympic Games. Mel's best event was the 200 butterfly. He is a former World, American, and NCAA Record holder in the 200 butterfly. As a writer/producer and sports columnist, Mel has contributed to Yahoo Sports, Universal Sports, and USA Swimming. Mel has also worked as an Olympic analyst for ABC, NBC, EPSN, FOX SPORTS and TBS. Mel Stewart is a co-founder of SwimSwam.com where he manages all advertising partnerships. At SwimSwam.com, Mel hosts Gold Medal Minute presented by SwimOutlet.com, a video series featuring the world’s fastest swimmers and Olympic medalists. See all Gold Medal Minute espisodes here. LITTLE GOLD MEDAL MELVIN As a child Mel was known as Little Melvin. Mel lived in Gastonia, North Carolina, unitl the age of 7. His father, Big Melvin, and mother, Myra Stewart, moved the family 40 miles east to Charlotte, North Carolina after getting jobs working for Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, founders of the PTL Club, a Christian ministry and television talk show. Mel's mother coached his sister, Kim Stewart, and he in a swimming pool directly under Jim Bakker's television studio. Mel attributes his resistant to butterfly pain to his mother's daily workouts which included 50 …

SwimSwam Magazine 2020 Year in Review Cover Feature – Lilly King

Olympic Champion, World Champion and NCAA Champion Lilly King is the cover feature of the SwimSwam Magazine 2020 Year in Review issue.

The Brazilian Swimming Photo Vault

Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures

SwimSwam Film Fest: Compulsion

Swim Photo Credit: Jason Wingrove

The Swimming Canada Photo Vault

Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures

SwimSwam Film Fest: Kuroshio Sea – 2nd Largest Aquarium In The World

Swim Photo Credit: Jon Rawlinson

The Florida Gators Swimming Photo Vault

Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures

The Anthony Ervin Written SwimSwam Song

Swim News: Ervin delivers his original “SwimSwam Theme Song” for swimswam’s support of his Indiegogo fundraiser (Swim Photo Credit: Mike Lewis, olavistaphotography.com)

Missy Franklin Photos on the set of Pretty Little Liars

Missy Franklin on the set of “Pretty Little Liars” with star Shay Mitchell (Swim Photo Credit: SM)

The Jack Conger Swimming Photo Vault

Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures

Michael Phelps To Switch Places with Sisters Whitney and Hilary

Phelps hugs sister, Hilary, at the 2012 US Olympic Trials (Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, the swim pictures)

The Swimmers’ Tattoo Photo Vault

Anthony Ervin rocks the sleeves (Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)

SwimSwam Film Fest: Dolphin Dog

Swim Photo Credit: Earth Touch

Ryan Lochte on ESPN GameDay

Lochte saddles up with Chris Fowler on ESPN’s GamesDay (Swim Photo Credit: Tim Binning, the swim pictures)

SwimSwam Film Fest: Malta Cliff Diving

Swim Photo Credit: Storror

The George Bovell Swimming Photo Vault

Swim Photo Credit: Melissa Lundie, melissalundie.com