Life Outside Swimming
Coughlin worked as an in-studio host for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
In April 2009, Coughlin married Ethan Hall, the Crow Canyon Sharks swim coach.
One of Coughlin's favorite hobbies is cooking. During the 2008 Summer Olympics, she was invited to prepare a Chinese-themed dish on the Today show. She has appeared as a judge on Iron Chef America.
Coughlin competed in season 9 of Dancing with the Stars with season 1 professional champion, Alec Mazo. She was eliminated on the fifth episode.
Coughlin appeared in the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
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“Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
The brook runs down in sending up our life.
The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
And there is something sending up the sun.”
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Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
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