Renee Magee

Texas State champion, national record holder

After her family moved to Houston in 1975, she was coached by Skip Kenney with Houston's Dad's Swim Club, who improved her competition times with long practices, and technique work on her strokes.

1976 Olympics In June 1976, she qualified for the Olympics at the trials in Long Beach, California, with a 1:05.78 in the 100 meter backstroke, though as a third place finisher she was initially qualified as an alternate. She won a spot on the team when one of the first or second place finishers qualified in another event. While at the Olympics, she was coached by Women's Head Coach Jack Nelson.

The first female swimmer in Texas to participate in the Olympics in an individual event, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, at the age of 17 she swam in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing nineteenth, and recording a time of 1:06.44, in the preliminaries.

Honors In 2011, she was elected a member of the Texas Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame.

She died at her home in Humble, Texas, in the Houston, Texas area on July 13, 2022 after suffering from a brain tumor. She had two children, a son who was an Attorney, and a daughter who was a physician.