We reviewed court records, emails and interviews with more than 30 friends, teammates and associates. Here’s what we know about the events leading up to Olympic swimmer Klete Keller joining the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021:
. The vast majority — 87% — were men. They came from 45 states and the District of Columbia. They carried a deep sense of grievance.Hundreds of pages of court records, emails and interviews with more than 30 friends, teammates and associates show that Keller’s journey to the Capitol was the latest and most bewildering choice in a life beset by struggles since retiring from swimming more than a decade ago. A revolving series of jobs. Divorce. Living in his car for 10 months.
At USC, Keller captured three individual NCAA titles, then dropped out in 2002, later citing workouts that weren’t his style and sleeping through classes. He signed an endorsement contract with Speedo and moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., to train under legendary University of Michigan coach Jon Urbanchek at Club Wolverine. Young phenom Michael Phelps soon joined the group.
No one who encountered Keller in those years recalled politics playing a pivotal role in his life. Some said he leaned right, but that was it. Swimming overwhelmed everything. But there were hints of trouble. “We support Klete going to the Capitol and showing his passion and patriotism for our wonderful country,” Kelly Keller continued. “He did not damage anything or hurt anyone there. They have made him the FACE of the Capitol Event because of who he is.”
Thorpe quickly pulled even with Keller. The American didn’t falter. He matched Thorpe stroke for stroke and touched the wall an instant ahead toAfterward, Phelps called the race “one of the greatest in history,” while Keller said it felt “like you’re in another world, it’s an out-of-body experience.” He joined his teammates on the podium in Team USA jackets.
He married Sherrill a month later — Urbanchek was one of the groomsmen — and started life in the real world.Two years later, on Halloween in 2010, Sherrill took the couple’s daughter, then 10 months old, to urgent care to get stitches on her chin. Pregnant with twin boys, Sherrill learned during the visit that the family no longer had health insurance.
“I had talked to my mentors and they had said, ‘Listen, you’re going to have no problem going in and immediately making six figures right out of the gate. Everybody’s going to want to hire you.’ … When those things didn’t happen, it really affected my outlook.”When Keller took the stand during the custody trial, he said he had to “basically figure out who I was” after swimming and didn’t have anyone with whom he could discuss his “concerns or fears” about living in the real world.
She told The Times that Keller spent much of their relationship blaming his parents for problems during his upbringing. The parents have never met his three children, according to court records. Eventually, she said, his resentment focused on her. ‘We support Klete going to the Capitol and showing his passion and patriotism for our wonderful country. He did not damage anything or hurt anyone there. They have made him the FACE of the Capitol Event because of who he is.’October and testified later that he lived in his Ford Fusion because the child support obligation made it impossible to pay the first and last month’s rent for an apartment. He slept in Walmart parking lots and maintained a gym membership to shower.
Sherrill, who had remarried, listed concerns about her ex-husband in an email later that year to a therapist who worked with the family: “Emotional stability. Crying, yelling, being sarcastic, calling kids names, saying inappropriate things to kids, at kids or about me. ... Bizarre and unpredictable behavior towards me, at me or in the presence of me at every interaction within the last two years.”. Mann wrote that, once again, swim clinics were Keller’s only employment.
Supporters of then-President Trump rally on Nov. 13, 2020, at the “Million MAGA March” to protest the presidential election outcome. Keller was among those in attendance. Later that month, Keller attended a fundraiser for then-U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner at the Colorado Springs home of Eli Bremer, who competed in the modern pentathlon in the Beijing Olympics. Bremer once suggested Keller run for office; he thought maybe he could be a county commissioner. Active in Republican politics in Colorado, Bremer didn’t see a well-developed set of political views in Keller and described his approach as “very passive.
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