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Meghan Dressel

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Meghan Dressel
Personal information
Birth nameMeghan A. Haila[1][2]
Full nameMeghan Haila Dressel[3]
Nickname(s)Meg
NationalityAmerican
Born (1996-05-18) May 18, 1996 (age 27)[4]
Florida, United States[2]
Spouse(s)
Caeleb Dressel (m. 2021)
[2][5]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke, individual medley[6]
ClubBolles School Sharks (former)[7]
College teamFlorida State University[6]
CoachJason Calanog (former)[8]

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Meghan Haila Dressel (née Haila, born May 18, 1996) is an American celebrity wife most widely known for being married to Caeleb Dressel, a multiple-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming.[3][5] She is a former competitive swimmer who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events and competed at the collegiate level for Florida State University.[6]

Background[edit]

Dressel was born Meghan A. Haila in 1996.[1][4] She attended Creekside High School in St. Johns, Florida and competed on the school's swim team.[7][6] In addition to swimming for her high school, she trained at The Bolles School as part of the Bolles School Sharks with her then-boyfriend Caeleb Dressel.[9] As part of the Bolles School's "late night" program, she, Caeleb Dressel, and Caeleb Dressel's sister Sherridon Dressel were coached by Jason Calanog.[8]

Life and career[edit]

High School swimming career[edit]

Her junior year of swimming scholastically for Creekside High School, Dressel won the 100-yard breaststroke event with a time of 1:02.95 at the Florida High School 2A State Championships in Orlando.[10] In addition to winning the 100-yard breaststroke, she swam a personal best time and finished fourth in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:52.00.[11] Competing representing the Bolles School Sharks at the 2012 Speedo Winter Junior National Championships in Knoxville, Tennessee in December, Dressel had the highlight of her meet in the prelims of the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing just 1.20 seconds behind Lillia "Lilly" King with a personal best time of 2:19.04 and placing 28th overall.[12] With her training and travel as part of the Bolles School Sharks swim club, she became more familiar with her teammates and in 2013 she started dating one of her training partners, Caeleb Dressel.[13]

Over the summer between her junior and senior year of high school, Dressel continued competing with her club team and placed tenth at the 2013 Southern Zone Sectionals meet in the 4x50-meter medley relay as part of her club's A relay with a finals time of 2:04.41.[1] In August 2013, at the Speedo Junior National Championships in Irvine, California and conducted in long course meters, Dressel swam personal best times in all the events she raced representing the Bolles School Sharks, placing 35th in the 100-meter breaststroke with a time of 1:13.44, 58th in the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:39.10, and 64th in the 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:22.74.[4] Dressel's success in her scholastic and club swimming endeavors brought her offers to swim in college, to which she committed to swimming for and attending Florida State University as part of her undergraduate studies.[7]

After committing to Florida State for college, Dressel finished off her high school scholastic swimming career by competing at the 2013 Florida High School 3A State Championships in Stuart, where she won the 100-yard breaststroke in a personal best time of 1:02.73, and placed second in the 200-yard individual medley with a personal best time of 2:04.16.[14] For her relay events at the Championships, she placed third in the 4x50-yard medley relay with a time of 1:50.38 and tenth in the 4x100-yard freestyle relay with her relay clocking in at 3:42.81.[15] She also concluded her swimming with the Bolles School Sharks, taking part in the TYR Summer Classic in Jacksonville in the summer of 2014, where she swam a 2:48.10 in the 200-meter breaststroke to finish over eleven seconds behind the first place finisher.[16]

Collegiate years[edit]

Dressel started her collegiate swimming career for the Florida State Seminoles in the fall of 2014.[6] In a dual meet against Florida Southern College, Dressel placed third in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:23.67.[17] Culminating her first college season, the 2014—2015 swim season, Dressel competed at the 2015 ACC Women's Championship in February in Atlanta, Georgia, where she placed 38th in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:05.67.[18] Following her first collegiate swim season, Dressel stopped her competitive swimming career, instead focusing her efforts fully on her undergraduate pursuits of becoming a child counselor.[3] She made an exception when it came to supporting her boyfriend, Caeleb Dressel, in-person at the 2016 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, saying:

Watching him swim on the most coveted stage in our sport was incredible. Definitely nerve-wracking, but way more exciting than anything else. Trials, however, was a different story. I wanted to puke at all times in Omaha, haha. But really. I think because he had already made it there and earned the right to call himself an Olympian forever, made Rio a lot less stressful and much more fun and exciting.[19]

For her graduate studies, Dressel attended the University of Florida from which she graduated with her Master's degree in marriage and family therapy by 2021.[9][20]

Engagement and marriage[edit]

On November 29, Caeleb Dressel proposed to Dressel, she said yes, they got engaged and shared the news about their engagement via social media.[9][19][21] Their engagement drew over 15,000 likes on her Instagram account, congratulations from over 4,000 people, and was selected by Swimming World as the number two thing to happen for the week of December 3, 2019, ranking three spots higher than number five, which was fellow breaststroker Rebecca Soni being announced as a future inductee to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and narrowly missing out on the number one spot to Andrei Minakov of Russia who committed to swim for Stanford University in college.[22] While their engagement did not rank as number one, it was the only one of the three stories to be notable enough to make it into the next issue of Swimming World Biweekly where the only other family lifestyle article of the issue was Matt Grevers having a second child with his wife, Annie.[23]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her fiancé had more time to plan the wedding together since they were home more due to pool closures and restricted out-of-house training.[24][25] Additionally, the pandemic provided more time for the couple to catch up on tasks such as finding a house together.[26] Saturday the 13th of February 2021, over Valentine's Day weekend, Caeleb Dressel and Meghan Dressel wed each other.[2][13] Between both of their Instagram accounts, his and hers, they received over 90,000 likes for pictures posted of the wedding day.[20] Following their marriage, she took her husband's surname, Dressel, and started going by the name Meghan Haila Dressel.[2][3]

2020 Summer Olympics as a swimmer's wife[edit]

2020 Olympic Trials[edit]

Leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, Dressel was able to support her husband in-person at the 2020 Olympic Trials in swimming, with her embracing and kissing him on the pool deck after his win qualifying him for the 2020 Olympics Games in the final of the 100-meter freestyle being aired on the NBC Sports telecast for the day's finals session and later posted to their webpage.[27] A picture of her cheering her husband on as well as a picture of them kissing on the pool deck after he won the 100-meter freestyle on day five of the Olympic Trials was featured by SwimSwam as part of their image highlights from the day and summarized as "What. A. Night!".[28]

2020 Summer Olympics[edit]

See also: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

With the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan held in July and August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dressel was less than six months married, a newlywed, as she supported her husband from afar during competition.[29] As family members, including spouses, were not allowed to attend the Olympic Games in-person due to the potential spread of COVID-19, she stuck close to her husband's parents and siblings, watching his races from NBC watch parties in Florida.[5]

When her husband won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal, the first individual Olympic medal of his career with an Olympic record time of 47.02 seconds, Dressel was the epitome of fidelity, crying on cue, screaming out of excitement, and telling her husband she loved him with a reaction so visceral that it was picked up by the American press, including People and Parade magazines, and they made her a focus of articles they published on her husband's accomplishment.[3][5] People magazine was so captivated by her and her husband that they deemed her reaction as being better than any other individual competitor's spouse's reaction across all sports at the Olympic Games and gave her their "Most celebratory spouse watching from halfway around the world in a pandemic" honor.[5] She was also featured cheering for her husband when he won the Olympic gold medal and set a new world record of 49.45 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly as part of the NBC Olympics telecast as it happened, the clip was also included in the video NBC published on YouTube via their NBC Sports YouTube channel.[30]

Career best times[edit]

Long course meters (50 m pool)[edit]

Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
100 m breaststroke 1:13.44 2013 US Junior National Championships Irvine, California August 8, 2013 [4]
200 m breaststroke 2:39.10 2013 US Junior National Championships Irvine, California August 5, 2013 [4]
200 m individual medley 2:22.74 2013 US Junior National Championships Irvine, California August 9, 2013 [4]

Short course yards (25 yd pool)[edit]

Event Time Meet Location Date Ref
200 yd freestyle 1:52.00 2012 Florida 2A State Championships Orlando, Florida November 8, 2012 [11]
100 yd breaststroke 1:02.73 2013 Florida 3A State Championships Stuart, Florida November 15, 2013 [14][15]
200 yd breaststroke 2:19.04 2012 Winter Junior National Championships Knoxville, Tennessee December 8, 2012 [12]
200 yd individual medley 2:04.16 2013 Florida 3A State Championships Stuart, Florida November 15, 2013 [14][15]

Awards and honors[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 YCF Swimming (July 18, 2013). "2013 Southern Zone South Sectional: Results". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Dornan, Ben (February 15, 2021). "A Very Valentines Wedding: Caeleb And Meghan Dressel Tie The Knot". SwimSwam. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Sager, Jessica (August 1, 2021). "Caeleb Dressel Gets Emotional at Olympics—See the Sweet Moments of the Swimmer Who Stole Our Hearts". Parade. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 USA Swimming (August 9, 2013). "2013 Speedo Junior National Championships: Complete Results Book". Omega Timing. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Carlson, Adam; Mizoguchi, Karen (July 29, 2021). "Swimmer Caeleb Dressel Gets Teary and His Wife Erupts with Joy at His Gold Medal Win: 'I Cry a Lot'". People. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "FSU Adds 22 for 2014-15 Season". Florida State Seminoles. May 15, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Keith, Braden (October 31, 2013). "Bolles Breaststroker Haila Verbally Commits To Florida State". SwimSwam. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Keith, Braden (January 3, 2014). "2013 High School/Club Coach Of The Year: John Flanagan". SwimSwam. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Berg, Aimee (April 24, 2020). "Caeleb Dressel (USA): "I don't want to be famous"". FINA. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  10. ↑ "High School State Championships: Florida 2A". Swimming World. November 9, 2012. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Florida Swimming (November 8, 2012). "Meet Results-FHSAA Championship 2A". teamunify.com. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 HY-TEK (December 8, 2012). "2012 Speedo Winter Junior National Champs: Women 200 Yard Breaststroke Preliminaries Results". swmeet.com. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Kortemeier, Todd (February 15, 2021). "Caeleb Dressel Weds Meghan Haila On Valentine's Day Weekend". TeamUSA.org. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Carroll, Tony (November 15, 2013). "Four Seniors Each Win Two Individual Events At The Florida HS 3A State Championships". SwimSwam. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Florida High School Athletic Association (November 15, 2013). "FHSAA Championship - Class 3A - 11/15/13: Results". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  16. ↑ Sampl, Emily (June 29, 2014). "Lindsey Swartz Picks Up Third Victory As BSS TYR Summer Classic Concludes". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  17. ↑ Marsteller, Jason (November 7, 2014). "Florida State Swimming Trumps Florida Southern". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  18. ↑ HY-TEK (February 19, 2015). "2015 ACC Women's Championship - 2/18/2015 to 2/21/2015: Results". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Lord, Craig (November 30, 2019). "Meghan Haila Posts Picture Of Happy Moment Caeleb Dressel Popped The Question". Swimming World. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Ross, Andy (February 15, 2021). "Caeleb Dressel Ties the Knot With High School Sweetheart Meghan Haila Over Weekend". Swimming World. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  21. ↑ Keith, Braden (November 30, 2019). "She Said yes! Caeleb Dressel And Meghan Haila Are Engaged". SwimSwam. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Ross, Andy (December 3, 2019). "The Week That Was: Andrei Minakov Commits to Stanford, Caeleb Dressel, Meghan Haila Announce Engagement". Swimming World. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Serowik, Lauren (December 8, 2019). "SW Biweekly — Simone Manuel: Collecting Medals and Making a Difference". Swimming World. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  24. ↑ Wire, Coy; Grez, Matias (April 20, 2020). "Caeleb Dressel: Even Olympic champions struggle to resist junk food binges during lockdown". CNN. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  25. ↑ Zaccardi, Nick (December 21, 2020). "Bone Dry: What Caeleb Dressel took away from hiking the Appalachian Trial". NBC Sports. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  26. ↑ Ross, Andy (April 3, 2020). "Caeleb Dressel A Condor Confined To Nest Now Craving Breeze Back To League Of High Flyers". Swimming World. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  27. ↑ "2021 U.S. Olympic Swim Team Trials: Dressel qualifies for Olympics in 100m free". NBC Sports. June 17, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  28. ↑ Spitser, Jack (June 18, 2021). "2021 U.S. Olympic Trials Wave II: Night 5 Finals Photo Vault". SwimSwam. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  29. ↑ "Caeleb Dressel's family join TODAY live from Florida". TODAY. July 28, 2021. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  30. ↑ NBC Sports (July 30, 2021). "Caeleb Dressel breaks world record, JUST grabs gold in 100m butterfly | Tokyo Olympics | NBC Sports". YouTube. Retrieved October 31, 2021.

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