Heather Brand

Heather Brand

Personal information
Full name	Heather Brand
National team	Zimbabwe
Born	(1982-11-17) 17 November 1982 Harare, Zimbabwe
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, butterfly
Club	King Aquatic Club (U.S.)
College team	Louisiana State University (U.S.)
Coach	Sean Hutchison (U.S.)
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Zimbabwe All-Africa Games 2007 Algiers 50 m freestyle 2007 Algiers 50 m butterfly 2007 Algiers 100 m butterfly 2007 Algiers 100 m freestyle 2007 Algiers 200 m butterfly

Heather Brand (born 17 November 1982) is a Zimbabwean swimmer, who specialised in freestyle and butterfly events. Brand had claimed a total of five medals (three silver and two bronze) at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, and eventually represented her nation Zimbabwe in the 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Apart from her medal treasury, Brand also established five long and short-course national records in all butterfly events at a major international competition, spanning three editions of the World Championships.

Brand competed for Zimbabwe in the women's 100 m butterfly at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She scored a solid Zimbabwean record of 1:00.61 to capture the 100 m butterfly crown and slide under the FINA B-cut (1:01.43) by nearly a full second at the All-Africa Games one year earlier. Swimming on the outside in heat three, Brand wound up last in a disappointing 1:01.39 to round out the eight-female pack, over two seconds behind the leader Birgit Koschischek of Austria. Brand failed to advance to the semifinals, as she placed forty-second overall out of 49 swimmers in the prelims.

Brand is the former captain of the LSU swimming team and a graduate of wildlife management at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is also a resident athlete of King Aquatic Club in Federal Way, Washington, where she trained with numerous world-class swimmers, including Margaret Hoelzer and Megan Jendrick of the United States (both of whom were Olympic medalists), and Svetlana Karpeeva, an individual medley specialist from Russia.

External links

• Player Bio – LSU Tigers
• NBC Olympics Profile