ABOUT RILEY GAINES BARKER
Famously known as an NCAA champion swimmer at the University of Kentucky . She is a 12-time All-American swimming champion at the University of Kentucky. Her Instagram account rileygbarker has earned 440,000 followers.
She has been swimming since she was a young child, and by the age of 12, she was competing at a high level.
She has also been known for fighting to save Women's sports and has become an outspoken critic of allowing male athletes who identify as trans to compete in women's sports. She gave a speech at the Independent Women's Forum and she has also appeared on the TV news show Fox News.
Her parents are Brad Gaines and Telisha Gaines. Her father is a former football player who played at Vanderbilt while her mother is a Softball player who played at Austin Peay. She grew up with her three siblings, sisters Taylor, and Neely Gaines and brother Bradford.
She married her longtime boyfriend Louis Barker on May 29, 2022. In June 2025, they announced they were expecting their first child together.
In August 2022, she spoke at CPAC alongside Donald Trump .
