Giordan Harris
Giordan Kariara Harris (born April 19, 1993) is a former competitive swimmer, and current swim coach, from Ebeye Island, Kwajalein Atoll, of the Marshall Islands. Harris is a two-time Olympic swimmer, multiple national record holder, NJCAA All American, and NJCAA & NCAA school record holder. Harris participated in numerous international competitions representing his home country, including the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, FINA World Long Course Championships, FINA World Short Course Championships, and most notably the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Harris was the first athlete from the Marshall  Islands to receive the Oceania Australia Foundation Scholarship and the first athlete raised in the islands to receive an athletic scholarship to an NCAA program in the United States. Harris is the first Oceania Pacific Islander to coach at the NCAA Division II & Division I level. Honors. 2013 Received the Oceania Australia Foundation Scholarship, to Iowa Lakes College 2014 - 2015 Iowa Lakes Community College (NJCAA) Team Captain 2015 NJCAA All American Training. Trained with Kwajalein Swim Team until the age of 15. 2010-2012 training location: Spire Institute, Michael Johnson Performance Center, Geneva, Ohio, under Coach: Jim Bocci 2013-2015  training location: Iowa Lakes College, Men's Swimming & Diving, Estherville, Iowa, 2015-2016 training location: The Bolles School - Jacksonville, Florida, under Coach: Jon Sakovich 2016-2018 Maryville University, Maryville University Athletics, St. Louis, MO Early life. Giordan was raised on Ebeye Island, the most populous island of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, where his mother, Mary Harris, was born. His mom regularly took him to the lagoon as a baby, where he spent countless hours swimming. He started swim team at the age of six and was the first swimmer from Ebeye to be a part of Kwajalein Swim  Team on the neighboring US military base which houses the only pool in the Marshall Islands. He traveled to and from practice from Ebeye to Kwajalein, by ferry that took a half hour each way. During training for competitions he would travel back and forth for morning practice and again for evening practice, being on the ferry 4 times in a day. Giordan is the oldest of three, and has two sisters, Jayana and Jolina. His sister Jolina, is an elite swimmer with Special Olympics with dreams of swimming at the Olympics like her brother. He continues to coach her  on his visits home.