Dusing came to Texas as an outstanding age group and high school swimmer, setting multiple age group national records as a butterflier and was named the 1997 USA High School Swimmer of the Year. He went on to become one of the University of Texas’s most versatile and outstanding swimmers. Nate was a member of two NCAA championship teams (2000, 2001), an individual NCAA champion in the 200 IM and 200 back (2001), and a member of nine NCAA championship relay teams while at Texas. Dusing represented the United States at two consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he earned a silver medal by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, he received a bronze medal swimming for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the men's 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He was also a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. relay teams in the 4×100-meter freestyle at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships and the 2004 World Short Course Championships. Dusing currently works in the medical device industry and resides in Dripping Springs, Texas, with his wife and Texas Soccer letter winner Michelle (Wickwire) Dusing. They have two daughters, Lyla and Eva.