Amy van Dyken was born in Englewood,colorado,in 1973.She was a sick child.The doctors told her parents that Amy had asthma.people with asthma sometimes can't breathe.Amy went to the hopital many times when she was young. she couldn't do the things other children could do.Then be like all the other children.In the beginning,she was very hard for her,but she swam faster.When she was 13,she started to win races.