Published: 11/15/2025
1996 - 2001
When and how did you meet?
Evan: We met in 6th grade! We were friends throughout middle and high school. Erica's senior year she asked me to be her date to prom: I said no. By the summer before our senior year of college I'd grown a brain and figured out that I should ask Erica on a date. I'm really lucky she said yes!
Favorite or funniest or most embarrassing swimming memory:
Erica: My favorite Dynamo memories come from out of the pool. My sophomore year we all went camping in North Georgia. It must have been over a school break because we got permission from Ed and Alex to go under the condition that we were back for Monday morning's practice. We all made a pledge to each other: no one would show up for practice that morning. But, turns out, the joke was on us! At afternoon practice, for punishment, we had to do a 10,000 for time. Needless to say, the memories that we made were worth it.
Evan: During my sophomore and junior years, I was the President of the Peter Marshall Fan Club, a club I totally made up against Peter's wishes by using my parents’ ink-jet printer to make iron-on decals. Honestly, I felt so lucky to train and swim with such an amazing group of talented friends. I just remember laughing really hard and sometimes swimming fast.
(Peter Marshall fan club t-shirts. From left to right: Matt Sopp, Bill Jabr, Peter Marshall, Evan DeLaney, Mike Kauffman)
Your pinnacle/peak performance:
Erica swam CAAs her freshman year of college where Davidson placed 3rd. Evan swam at Senior Nationals in Clovis, California where Dynamo won the 18 and under title.
How has your time at Dynamo impacted your life:
Dynamo taught us so many valuable lessons - how to stick with something when it is really hard, how to enjoy the journey, and that you're stronger than you think you are (14x 400 IMs, anyone?). But above all, Dynamo left us with that cliche middle-aged people always say - lifelong friendships! Some of our best friends and memories came from those hours in the pool together.
(From Left to right: Caroline (Burns) Richmond, Erica DeLaney, Meaghan (Murphy) Gambing, Erin (Rosintoski) Lewis0
Where are you today?
Erica: Evan and I live in Brookhaven with our four kids. We stayed in Atlanta because both sets of grandparents are here, and who would pass up free babysitters? I work as a PA in the St. Joe's Emergency Room. Evan is a software architect at Chick-fil-A, so if you bump into him, ask for free nuggets. When we're not working or sitting in a carpool line, you can find us at home in the garden growing fruits and veggies or hiking in North Georgia with the kids.