Shortly after swimming in his first Olympics, American Carson Foster married longtime girlfriend Meredith Wolf in a ceremony on Saturday held at the Monastery Event Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Let me introduce you to MRS FOSTER!
Foster and Wolf have been together since 2017, with their engagement occuring back in August 2022. The pair met while swimming together for the Mason Manta Rays club in their hometown of Mason, Ohio. Foster went on to swim at the University of Texas from 2020 until 2023 when he announced his decision to forgo his final two years of NCAA eligibility to turn pro and train for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Wolf attended the University of South Carolina, graduating back in November 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in International Business.
Foster has been one of the country’s top IM’ers for several years now. He just missed out on qualifying for the 2021 Olympic Games, finishing a narrow 3rd in the 400 IM at Olympic Trials. However, in 2022 Foster bounced-back to qualify for the US team for the 2022 World Championships, winning silver medals in the 200 and 400 IM. Shortly after announcing his decision to turn pro, he repeated his silver medal performance in the 400 IM at the 2023 World Championships.
At the 2024 US Olympic Trials, Foster finally managed to qualify for his first US Olympic Team, winning the 200 IM and 400 IM to enter the Olympics as a medal favorite in both events. In Paris, Foster couldn’t quite replicate his times from US Trials in either event, but he still walked away from the meet with both a silver and a bronze medal. On the first night of competition, Foster managed a 3rd place finish in the 400 IM (4:08.66), picking up the first Olympic medal of his career with a bronze. Then, he helped the US men’s 4×200 freestyle relay to a runner-up finish behind Great Britain, earning a silver for his contribution to the team. In the 200 IM, Foster finished 4th to just miss the podium behind a strong field.
Based on Instagram posts, several of Foster’s current and former teammates were in attendance at the wedding, with Jake Foster, Will Licon, Coby Carrozza, Adam Chaney, Holden Smith, Drew Kibler, Peter Larson, and Ian Van Gorp all serving as groomsmen for Foster.
I sat behind the Wolf family for the 400 IM prelims/finals at trials. Their joy at Carson making the team was intoxicating. Jumping up and down. Crying, yelling. Even running around between the Foster family and Texas swimmers. Had a Texas guy basically fall on me while trying to get over to them, but it didn’t bother me a bit because they were all so genuinely joyful. A reminder that to us fans that these swimmers are people. I assumed Carson would make it and was a little blasé, but they were elated as if he were a long shot. Changed my perspective for sure. And I’m a Foster/Wolf fan for life.
Wow. So young. I wish them much happiness.
She was his fiancé not girlfriend
Well now she’s his ex-girlfriend
Great reunion of teammates! Congratulations Carson!
It seems like American weddings are always huge? Or is it just the ones we see on here. Nine groomsman and bridesmaids seems huge to me. One or two is more common in Australia.
It’s a big mix, and in my experience depends on the age of the bride and groom. Younger couples tend to have bigger wedding parties than older couples, though that’s not a perfect correlation.
My wife and I got married in our early 30s, had no wedding party, and had about 70 attendees at our wedding.
Last wedding I was in had 4/4, which is pretty standard.
(Also can depend on number of siblings, if one or the other was recently on a sports team or in a sorority/fraternity…those things tend to result in bigger wedding parties).
For sure. Post-college weddings can get huge you’ve got a million “friends”. Later in life weddings you’ve got a tight group of friends and you weed out the fluff.
I got married at 35 and had a big wedding. I’ve maintained close friendships throughout every stage of my life–childhood swimming, college, graduate school, work friends, adult swim friends–so we had a lot of guests. If I had gotten married younger, mine actually would have been smaller.
That’s pretty big by American standards as well.
Yeah I’d say 3-4 of each is probably the “standard” for a regular, old-fashioned kind of wedding.
Should’ve had a relay showdown at the wedding, they would have thrown down some solid times.
Matt Richards is Also tying knots this week.
Yeah, but he’s Australian, so, not as interesting.