Erica Lara Rose (born July 6, 1982) was an American competition swimmer who specialized in long-distance and open water events.

[6] Around seventeen in August 1999, she gave America its first women's medal in the Pan Pacifics, with a time of 58:11, in the 3.1 mile open water swim in Melbourne, Australia.

[9] Again demonstrating exceptional skills having just turned 15, Rose won the gold medal in the 5-kilometer open water event, roughly 3.1 miles, at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia, with a time of 59 minutes, 23.5 seconds.

[4] On August 2, 1997, at only fifteen, she won the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships 5 km at Piercy Priest Lake at Nashville, Tennessee, in a time of 52:18.

[12] Increasing her competitive distance at nineteen, on June 24, 2001, she won the Women's division for the 10 km USA Swimming Open Water National Championship at Daytona Beach with a time of 2:05:21.

On June 6, 2006, around the age of twenty-four she won the woman's division in the USA Swimming Open Water National 25 km Championships circling Estero Island off Fort Myers in 5:29:13.

Though she technically was near medal contention, it is not clear if the time qualified her to be chosen for the American Olympic Team which included a 10 km competition in 2008.

[20] On August 5, 2009, she placed second overall in the amateur Harbor Springs Coastal Crawl United States Masters Swimming National Championships with a time of 2:22:44.

[4] She was listed as a member of the USA Swimming National Team for twelve years.,[1] and in 2014 was inducted into the Greater Cleveland, Ohio Sports Hall of Fame.

At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor she worked as a Recruitment Coordinator in the Office of Development and received a degree in global public health and business administration.

[21] At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor she worked as a Recruitment Coordinator in the Office of Development and received a degree in global public health and business administration.