As part of the American team, she helped set a new world record in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay (long course).

Her father worked for General Dynamics, a defense contractor, and her mother was an aerobics instructor.

While still in school, and after she had exhausted her athletic eligibility, she served as a volunteer assistant coach with the Wisconsin Badgers swimming teams.

Shane and Carly have a son, Clint Murray, and daughter named Piper Autumn Ryan who was born in 2016.

[2] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Piper won a gold medal in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay with Natalie Coughlin, Kaitlin Sandeno, and Dana Vollmer that set the world record in the event.