Giordan Harris

Giordan Harris

Personal information
Nationality	Marshall Islands
Born	(1993-04-19) April 19, 1993 (age 31)[1] Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	99 kg (218 lb)
Sport
Country	Marshall Islands
Sport	Swimming
Event	50m Freestyle

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,^[2] and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Harris was the first athlete from the Marshall Islands to receive the Oceania Australia Foundation Scholarship Archived 2022-05-28 at the Wayback Machine and the first athlete raised in the islands to receive an athletic scholarship to an NCAA program in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Harris is the first Oceania Pacific Islander to coach at the NCAA Division II & Division I level.^{[citation needed]}