Chris Guiliano

Biography Early life and swimming Guiliano was born June 25, 2003, in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Cecelia Guiliano. He began his swimming career around the age of eight, later attending Daniel Boone High School in Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he lettered in swimming all four years and was an honor roll student. At Daniel Boone, he was a team Captain as a Senior and a three-time MVP. He trained and competed with the TOPS swimming club of Pennsburg, and Pottstown, Pennsylvania while in High School where he was named an MVP in two years.

University of Notre Dame Guiliano attended Notre Dame University from 2021-2024 under Coach Chris Lindauer. Guiliano majored in Economics and Notre Dame, minoring in computer and digital technologies. A talented and experience coach, Lindauer began at Notre Dame in 2022, having formerly Coached at the University of Louisville. In his Junior year, Guiliano was selected as an All American six times with five first team selections, and one honorable mention. He was a 2024 NCAA qualifier in the 50, 100, and 200-yard freestyle, and an ACC champion four times that year. He formerly qualified for the NCAA's in 2022 and 2023. Guliano held Notre Dame school records in the 50, 100 and 200-yard freestyle, and was part of relay teams that held records in all five relays. He made the ACC Academic Honor Roll his Senior Year, was voted team MVP, and served as team Captain. Swimming for the University of Texas, under Hall of Fame Head Coach Bob Bowman and Associate Coach Eric Posegay, Guiliano was on a victorious 200 medley relay team that earned Texas's tenth fastest time. He recorded a 19.04 in the 50 freestyle, and won the 100 free with a time of 41.89.

As a member of the U.S. team in 2023, at the World Aquatic Championships in Fukuoka and the U.S. Open, he captured both silver and bronze medals. At the 2023 World Aquatic Championships, his bronze medal was in the 4x100-meter freestyle and his silver medal in the mixed 4x100 freestyle relays. At the 2024 World Championships in Budapest, he earned a Gold Medal in the 4x100-meter Freestyle relay.

At the 2024 Paris Olympic competition, Guiliano captured two medals. He earned America's first gold medal of the games in the 4×100 free relay, where swimming a speedy second leg with Americans Hunter Armstrong, Jack Alexy, and Caeleb Dressel as anchor, he helped record a combined team time of 3:09.28.

He won a silver medal in the 4×200 free relay with the team of Drew Kibler, Brooks Curry, and Blake Pieroni, recording a second place finals time of 7:05.57.

In individual events, Guiliano placed eighth in the Men's 100-meter Freestyle with a 47.98, making the finals, but finishing out of medal contention. In the 50-meter freestyle, he placed seventeenth, and in the 200-meter freestyle, he placed nineteenth.

In his 2018-19 swimming season in High School, Guiliano was named a Berks County Player of the Year. He was a 2024 ACC Conference Swimmer of the Year in 2023 and received recognition as the ACC Swimmer of the week on numerous occasions.