According to her Auburn Bio, she completed high school in Zimbabwe (Harare Convent) before attending Auburn University. She now lives in Austin, Texas, (I'd guess she is training at UT's Texas Swim Center, a olympic class facility).
Seems her family still all live in Zimbabwe.
According to Wiki ---
Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born in Harare, Zimbabwe September 16, 1983) is a Zimbabwean swimmer and world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, Greece, Coventry won three Olympic medals: a gold, a silver, and a bronze. She was subsequently described by Paul Chingoka, head of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, as "our national treasure".[5] Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe called her "a golden girl".[6]
In 2000, while still in high school, Coventry became the first Zimbabwean swimmer to reach the semifinals at the Olympics and was named Zimbabwe's Sports Woman of the Year. ...
From other news source ...
John Niyo / The Detroit News At FINA's world short course championships in April, Zimbabwe finished a surprising fourth in the gold-medal count. The reason? Kirsty Coventry, who won five medals -- four gold -- and set three world records in the women's backstroke and individual medley events in Manchester, England.
And as far as good news is concerned, that's about all her native land has enjoyed this year. Political unrest, as well as a dire economy and food crisis, have crippled a country that the 24-year-old Coventry, who now lives in Austin, Texas, still considers home. Coventry, a former NCAA champion at Auburn, gained international fame when she won three medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics. They're the only individual Olympic medals her country has won since gaining independence in 1980.
And in a nation of 13 million where the government's policies fuel a bitter racial divide, Coventry's celebrity status -- President Robert Mugabe called her "a golden girl" after Athens -- is all the more noteworthy.
"I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there," Coventry told Reuters this spring in Manchester. "My family, friends and parents are still there. I know how much it does for people back home."
And this bit from USA Today when she won three medals at the Athens Olympics in 2004
Zimbabwe puts aside racial tensions to give hero's welcome to triple medal winner
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe put aside an official hate campaign against the nation's tiny white community Wednesday and hailed its triple-medal-winning Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry as "a national treasure."
Swimmer Kirsty Coventry, who earned all three of Zimbabwe's Olympic medals, received a heroine's welcome when she arrived back home.
Coventry, who is white and trains at Auburn University in Alabama, won gold, silver and bronze medals in swimming events at the Athens Games.
Tribal dancers, beating drums and gyrating in mesh skirts and animal skins, greeted the swimmer at the main Harare Airport, along with hundreds of chanting fans waving banners describing her as "Our Golden Girl, Our Heroine."
"We never expected this," Coventry's coach, Peter Dalzell. "The welcome has been somewhat overwhelming."
Paul Chingoka, head of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee, spoke of "tears of joy" when the Zimbabwe anthem was played and the national flag was raised three times.
"Never before has Zimbabwe been in such a situation," he said. "Kirsty is our national treasure. I don't have enough words to say about her. We just went berserk — we went ballistic."
Coventry, 20, who has been studying in the United States for three years, spoke in a distinctive American accent.
"I am so full of pride and feel honored so many people have come out to see me," she said. "I am very excited to be given a chance to come home and share it with everyone here."
