We are richly blessed to announce Riley Gaines a Christian American former competitive swimmer, political activist and a 12-time NCAA All-American as our February 25th 2025 Chino Valley Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast speaker. She competed for the University of Kentucky NCAA swim team. She was the 2022 Southeastern Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Gaines has campaigned against the participation of trans women in women’s sports. Gaines has advocated against the inclusion of transgender women in the women’s division of sports, including by lobbying her state representatives in April 2022 to pass a law that would prohibit transgender women from women’s sports.

She married a British university college swimmer Louis Barker in 2022, and he has been a huge supporter of her as she speaks across the country for women’s rights. In June 2023 she appeared as a witness at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focusing on safeguarding civil rights sharing her own experience with having to share a dressing room with a transgender swimmer.

She is a decorated athlete with multiple championships and qualifiers under her belt.