Nathan Adrian announced the birth of his daughter, Parker Jacquelyn Adrian, today via Instagram. Parker is the firstborn child to Adrian and his wife Hallie Adrian who got marries back in September 2018.
Adrian has been racing internationally for the United States for over a decade, having won his first Olympic gold at the 2008 Games in Beijing. There, he swam as a prelim swimmer for the legendary 4×100 freestyle relay in which Michael Phelps, Garret Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones, and Jason Lezak narrowly beat out the French for gold.
Adrian picked up his first individual gold medal 4 years later in London when he won the 100 freestyle in a 47.52. In 2012 he also won gold in the 4×100 medley relay and the 4×100 freestyle. At the most recent Games, Adrian won bronze individually in both the 50 and 100 freestyle and won gold in the 4×100 freestyle and medley relays.
In January 2019, Adrian revealed that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Following two successful surgeries, Adrian made a comeback in the summer of 2019 and competed at World Championships as well as at the Pan American Games.
At the World Championships, Adrian swam in the finals of the gold medal-winning 4×100 freestyle relay as well as the silver medal-winning 4×100 medley. At the Pan American Games, he won silver in both the 50 and 100 freestyles and picked up gold in the mixed 4×100 free, mixed 4×100 medley, and silver in the men’s 4×100 free.
This fall, Adrian raced at the Stanford Invite and posted times of 21.98 in the 50 freestyle and 49.07 in the long course 100 freestyle.
Both Nathan and Hallie Adrian competed in the NCAA during their college years. Nathan swam for the University of California, Berkeley while Hallie was a member of Stanford’s diving team.
Hallie is now retired from the sport, however, and works as a divisional merchandise manager for Pottery Barn Teen at Williams-Sonoma. Prior to her position at Williams-Sonoma, Adrian has had many management roles in the retail industry including the director of merchandising at Banana Republic and an assistant merchant a the Gap.
Nice to know his equipment still works lol
Check your typos
I thought grammarly was an app not a commenter on Swimswam 🤔
Are you mis-remembering Nathan’s 500 free runner-up performance at pan-ams?! Or maybe lochte holding off the French in 400 free relay?
Now we know what Nathan was up to at those Cal- Stanford dual meets. Jokes aside, congratulations to the Adrians! Can’t think of a better Valentine’s Day gift!
Super congratulations to the Adrians, what a blessing after coming back from T cancer. May your family be a constant source of joy to you.
Adrian was already stupid strong, now he’s got dad strength added to that, unreal
Does the US have the best dad medley relay in the world?
Grevers backstroke
Miller breaststroke
Phelps fly (he could probably still throw down a decent enough split and I can’t think of any daddy flyers unless Shields/Dressel/Rooney aren’t telling us anything. Maybe Lochte fly?)
Adrian free
Lovely news
What a head of hair!
Olympic champion 2040
In swimming and diving!