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Mary Sartain is a former contestant on the reality television show Survivor: Micronesia.

Natalie Anne Coughlin is an American swimmer and eleven-time Olympic medallist. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Coughlin became the first American... female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. Coughlin's success has earned her the World Swimmer of the Year Award one time and American Swimmer of the Year Award three times. She has won a total of forty-eight medals in major international competition, twenty-one gold, seventeen silver, and ten bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Coughlin currently lives in Lafayette, California and is of Irish and one quarter Filipino heritage. She was born in Vallejo and went to school at St. Catherine of Siena School from kindergarten through eight grade. She attended Carondelet High School in Concord. Coughlin first began swimming at the local YMCA when she was only 10 months old. In 1998 at age 15, she became the first swimmer to qualify for the Summer National in all 14 events.
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California Spanish pronunciation: [kaliˈfornja] is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive . It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas , and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities . The capital city is Sacramento. California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra... Nevada mountains in the east—from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States , and has the third-longest coastline of all states . Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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