Phelps Baby No. 3: Michael and Nicole Welcome 3rd Son, Maverick

Torrey Hart
by Torrey Hart 31

September 11th, 2019 National, News

Nicole Phelps, the wife of the most-decorated Olympic swimmer in history Michael Phelps, gave birth to the couple’s third child on Monday, September 9th, the couple announced on Instagram Wednesday.

The baby’s name is Maverick Nicolas Phelps, and he joins brothers Boomer and Beckett.

Though he doesn’t have any posts yet, you can already follow the baby on Instagram @mavericknphelps. Boomer, 3, has nearly 700,000 followers on his account, @boomerrphelps; Beckett, 20 months, has almost 70,000 followers on his (@beckettrphelps).

While Boomer’s middle name came from Phelps’ longtime coach, Robert “Bob” Bowman, and Beckett’s middle name, Richard, is Nicole’s dad’s name. Nicolas is presumably a nod to Nicole.

Phelps has won more Olympic medals and gold medals than any athlete in any sport in history, with 23 gold and 28 total medals. His wife Nicole, formerly Johnson, was Miss California USA 2010.

Their youngest son is close in age to both Ryan Lochte’s second child, daughter Liv (born in June), and Cullen Jones’ first child, son Ayven (born in July).

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thatonemoflo
5 years ago

One more for the relay. Cmon Phelps!

ERVINFORTHEWIN
5 years ago

Jeeeeeez , Michael loves his Parenthood Role !!! Well done

2Fat4Speed
5 years ago

It looks like Phelps is staying fit “just in case”…

ace
5 years ago

There must not be much sleep in the phelps household…

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  ace
5 years ago

not anymore ……..lol

MKW
5 years ago

Congrats to the Pehlps family!

James
5 years ago

Wow….3 kids 3 and under. Much braver man (and wife!) than I. Congrats Michael

Cate
Reply to  James
5 years ago

Nicole is in her 30’s and she said she wanted 3 so I suspect she wanted to get it done before she got much older.

Ol' Longhorn
5 years ago

Man, if I’m Mrs. Lochte, I’m asking for a moratorium.

Spectatorn
5 years ago

Congrats for the new baby!

puzzled by this in the first paragraph though….”Nicole Phelps,(omitted), gave birth to the couple’s third child on Monday, February 9, the couple announced on Instagram Wednesday.”

Always Swimming
Reply to  Spectatorn
5 years ago

Typo I assume – Monday, September 9. 9/9/19 – cool birthay

spectatorn
Reply to  Always Swimming
5 years ago

Thanks! At first I didn’t even notice the baby was born on Monday the 9th. Saw it in the insta photos after I posted, but too late to edit that out.

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  Always Swimming
5 years ago

great numbers indeed

About Torrey Hart

Torrey Hart

Torrey is from Oakland, CA, and majored in media studies and American studies at Claremont McKenna College, where she swam distance freestyle for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps team. Outside of SwimSwam, she has bylines at Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports, SB Nation, and The Student Life newspaper.

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