Name: Alex Walsh
Sport: Swimming
Discipline(s): Swimming
Event(s): 200 Individual Medley
Height: 6-0
DOB: 7/31/2001
Birthplace: Nashville, Tenn.
Hometown: Nashville, Tenn.
High School: Harpeth Hall High School (Nashville, Tenn.) ‘20
College: University of Virginia ‘24
Team/Club: Nashville Aquatic Club/University of Virginia
Coach(es): Todd DeSorbo
Olympic Experience
  • One-time Olympian (2020); one-time Olympic medalist (silver)
  • Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, silver (200-meter individual medley)
Other Career Highlights
  • 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, 1st (200 individual medley, 400 freestyle relay)
  • 2017 FINA World Junior Championships, silver (400 freestyle relay, 400 medley relay), 4th (200 individual medley)
  • Three-time Pan American Games gold medalist
Personal: Daughter of Glynis Walsh...Younger sister, Gretchen, also competes in swimming...Hobbies include baking and yoga.