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Davis was born on the same day Mark Spitz was making Olympic history while winning one of his seven gold medals in world record time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. After becoming the fastest swimmer ever out of San Antonio at Winston Churchill High School, Davis accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Texas. Davis currently resides in San Antonio where he runs a motivational speaking and swim clinic business. He was inducted into the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame on February 15, 2008. In February 2009 four of Davis' Olympic medals-three gold medals and one silver medal-were stolen from his car after he returned from a swim clinic in St. Louis. He is offering a reward for their return. On Friday February 13, 2009 cleanup crews in San Antonio outside one of the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Clubs found the medals. The medals, three gold medals from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and a silver from the 2000 Sydney Games, were returned to Davis at a news conference later that night. Davis and wife Shantel have five children. Completed in 2001, the natatorium at Northeast Independent School District's Virgil T. Blossom Athletic Center (the district where Davis attended school) in San Antonio was named in his honor. |