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Brad Pitt
- Brad Pitt was part of the swim team while attending Kickapoo High School in Springfield, Missouri.
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Gwen Stefani
- Stefani swam at Loara High School in Anaheim, California.
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Ronald Reagan
- Reagan was known as an avid swimmer in his youth. He earned money by teaching swimming and working as a lifeguard. He is credited with 77 water rescues in his lifeguard career1
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Hugh Jackman
- Before Jackman was playing Wolverine on the big screen, he participated in many sports in high school, including swimming.
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Kevin Hart - Hart claims that the swim team associated with the Philadelphia Department of Recreation changed his life and kept him off the streets.
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Jon Hamm
- The 'Mad Men' star swam for John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Jennifer Garner
- Garner was part of the swim team for her high school, George Washington High in Charleston, West Virginia. These days she occasionally runs marathons.
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David Hasselhoff
- It's reported that Hasselhoff was a swimmer when he was younger, which is probably why he was so convincing in 'Baywatch.'
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Jason Statham
- Before his massively successful acting career, Statum was a dedicated student diver and swimmer.
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Kerry Washington
- Washington wasn't into all sports as a child, but she did gravitate towards swimming in high school.
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Megan Fox - Fox gained fame for her swim team in Kingston, Tennessee, when she won the 8-and-under individual medley while swimming in 1994.
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Timothy Olyphant
- The actor swam competitively in high school and was a finalist at the 1986 Nationals, in the 200m Individual Medley. He was recruited to swim at the University of Southern California.
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Hillary Swank
- The Academy Award-winning actress was swimming since she was a child and even competed in the Junior Olympics!
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Molly Sims
- The supermodel was a hardcore swimmer, swimming all year round in teams for over a decade.
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Anders Holm
- While studying history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the 'Workaholics' creator and actor was part of the swimming team.
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Maggie Q
- Actress Maggie Q spent time on the swim team while at Mililani High School in Hawaii. She also was part of the track and field team and the cross country running team.
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Scott Speedman
- The actor was part of the Canadian Junior National Swim Team, coming ninth in the Olympic Trials in 1992 before he suffered a neck injury.
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John Heder
- The 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) actor swam for South Salem High School in Oregon.
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Chris Klein
- The 'American Pie' actor swam on the Millard West High School swim team in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Kim Alexis
- The American supermodel started swimming at age six and swam competitively during her senior year at Lockport High School in New York.
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Estella Warren
- The Canadian actress and model was part of the Canadian National Swim Team and won three national titles.
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Hilary Rhoda
- The model was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where she swam in high school.
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Cliff Simon
- The late actor, who's best known for playing Ba'al in 'Stargate SG-1,' was guided by his mother who was a swim teacher. By age 15, he had reached the national level in South Africa. Later he would qualify for the Summer Olympics in 1984 and be offered scholarships to the University of Houston and Southern Methodist University in Texas.
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Vince Edwards
- The American actor, who was best known for his starring role in the series 'Ben Casey' (1961-1966), swam for the Flatbush Boys' Club in Brooklyn and for his high school team.
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Bud Spencer
- The Italian actor, who was famous in the late 1960s and 1970s for films like 'They Call Me Trinity' (1970), won the Italian swimming championships in freestyle and mixed relay teams. He was also the first Italian to swim the 100m freestyle in less than a minute.
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Emma Fuhrmann
- The actress, who's known for her role in 'Avengers: Endgame' (2019), was recorded in an interview at age nine speaking about her athleticism and how she swam in the summers.
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Michael Gruber
- The American actor, who starred in 'Next Friday' in 2002 with rapper Ice Cube, was an all-star diver and part of the swim team in Indian Hill High School, a public high school near Cincinnati, Ohio. Sources: (Ocaquatics) (SwimSwam)
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Celebrities who were on the swim team
Find out which stars love the water
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Swimming is one of the most efficient sports for keeping the body healthy. It doesn't just get the heart pumping, it also works out nearly every muscle group. Swimming well takes a lot of practice for most of us, and we usually learn best in teams. These celebrities got involved in swimming teams and most of them took to the sport like a duck to water. Many even qualified and competed in the Olympic Games, while others broke records!
To learn which celebrities got involved in swimming teams, click through this gallery.
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