Longhorn Women Swimming Olympians

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1984 women’s swimming Olympians bottom row Kim Rhondenbaug, Sarah Guido-

middle row- Tiffany Cohen, Carol Kimpel-

top row- Angela Eriksson, Betsy Mitchell, and

Tori Trees.

Leigh Ann Fetter - Witt

1988 women swimming Olympians Susan Johnson, Annabelle Crippe, Andrea Hayes, Leigh Ann Fetter

A record-breaking swimmer at the University of Texas, Fetter-Witt was a fifteen-time NCAA Champion. Not only did she win the 50-yard freestyle all four years in college (1988-91), she also became the first woman ever to swim the 50-free in under 22 seconds. Simultaneously holding the American record in the 50-yard and 50-meter freestyle, she became only the third woman in NCAA history to win the same event four times. She represented the United States as a freshman at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She finished fifth in the final of the women's 50-meter freestyle. Returning to Texas, she won the 100 free her last three years and was a part of three national championship Teams. In 1989 she received the Female Athlete of the Year Award in Swimming, and 1990 she was the recipient of the Honda Award for Swimming, again recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year. She became a member of the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 2003. Fetter later became head swim coach for the Greater Nebraska Swim Team and Lincoln Southwest High School men's and women's teams. Leigh Ann currently resides in San Antonio and is the Head Age Group Coach at Alamo Area Aquatics Association-Northside, working at one of the best facilities in the United States. She is married to Mike Witt and has two daughters, Ashley and Kaitlyn.

Jill Sterkel, Wendy Boglioli, Jennifer Hooker, Kim Peyton (USA)

Tracey McFarlane Olympics 1988

McFarlane won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

She held the American record in the 100-meter breaststroke from 1988 to 1992, with a time of 1:09.60.

She was inducted into the University' of Texas Hall of Honor in 2006.

Tiffany Cohen 1984

Tiffany Lisa Cohen is a double gold medalist at the 1984 Summer Olympics (400-meter and 800-meter freestyle).

In 1982, she won the U.S. National Championship in the 500-, 1,000-, and 1650-yard freestyle, and finished third in the 400-meter freestyle at the FINA World Aquatics Championships.

In the 1986 championships, Cohen won the 400- and 800-meter freestyles and the 200-meter butterfly.

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1996.

Susan Johnson Olympics 1988

Susan Johnson finished 12th place in the women's 100 m breaststroke during the Olympic Games in 1988.

Slide show of Longhorn Olympians is below.

Andrea Hayes Seoul 1988

Andrea Jean Hayes - At the 1988 Olympics, she finished sixth in the final of the women's 200-meter backstroke event, with a time of 2:15.02.

Kathleen Hersey Bejing 2008 and London 2012

At the Olympics, Hersey finished eighth in the 200-meter butterfly finals with a time of 2:08.23. She had swum a then career best 2:06.96 in the semi-finals of this event a day earlier.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Hersey advanced to the finals of the 200-meter butterfly and swam a career-best time of 2:05.78 to finish in fourth place.

Megan Kleine Barcelona 1992 1 gold 🥇

Megan Adelle Kleine At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Individually, she also competed in the B Final of the women's 100-meter breaststroke event, and finished with the twelfth-best time overall (1:11.07) at the 1992 Olympics.

Colleen Lanne Athens 2004 1 silver 🥈

Colleen Anne Lanné[ -Lanné earned a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by swimming for the second-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

Whitney+Hedgepeth.jpg — Whitney Hedgepeth competed in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1998 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing eighth in the final.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Hedgepeth won individual silver medals in the 100-meter backstroke and the 200-meter backstroke events and a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. relay team in the 4 x 100-meter medley relay event. She was named All-American 27 times.
Whitney was inducted into the University of Texas Longhorns Hall of Honor in 2007.

Laura Wilkinson o 2000 (2).jpg — Laura Wilkinson

**2000 Summer**
Laura Wilkinson earned the first gold medal for a female American platform diver since 1964.
**2004 Summer Olympics**
Wilkinson finished in fifth place.
**2008 Summer Olympics**
On June 26, 2008, Wilkinson qualified as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Diving Team in diving by taking first place in the trials.
Laura’s website is is
https://www.laurawilkinson.com

2000 media guide women's Olympics - Vera Ilyina, B.J. Bedfrd, Laura Wilkinson, Erin Phenix,

Laura Wilkinson

Betsy Mitchell https://betsymitchell.us/

Betsy Mitchell is a world record-holder, world champion, and Olympic gold and silver medalist. She also was a member of the United States' 1994 Rowing World Championship team.

Mitchell represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing with a time of 1:02.63. She also earned a gold medal by swimming the backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter medley relay.

After the 1984 Olympics, Mitchell transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, and swam for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1985 to 1988. She won nine NCAA titles, and was a member of the Longhorns NCAA national championship teams in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Mitchell received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving 1987–88, and was inducted into the Texas Longhorns Hall of Honor in 2000

She set an American and world record in the 200-meter backstroke at the 1986 World Championship Trials (2:08.60). The world record stood for five years. Swimming World Magazine named her as its American Female Swimmer of the Year in 1986.

She again competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She received a silver medal for swimming the backstroke leg for the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay. Individually, she also swam in the final of the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing fourth in the final with a time of 1:02.71.[2]

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1998.

The 1980 Olympics were boycotted. Kim Linehan , Joan Pennington, and Jill Sterkel were scheduled to attend the 1980 olympics in russia. Jill responded in the Cactus about the Moscow boycott.

At the 1978 World Aquatics Championships in Berlin, Germany, Linehan won bronze medals with third-place finishes in the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle events. Linehan won a gold medal by placing first in the 800-meter freestyle at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, she finished fourth in the women's 400-meter freestyle. She set the 400-meter freestyle world record (long course) in 1978, and held the 1,500-meter freestyle world record (long course) from 1979 to 1987.

She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1997, and the University of Texas Women's Athletics Hall of Honor in 2008.[1][2]

Joan Pennington

Joan Pennington won one silver and two gold medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships. She qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but could not participate because of the United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics.

Pennington attended the University of Texas, and swam for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. During her college swimming career she won eight AIAW and NCAA championships and received 28 All-American honors. She was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1978–79.

Carol Steinseifer 1984 3 gold 🥇 medals

Carolyn Lynne Steinseifer won gold medals in the women's 100-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter freestyle relay and 4x100-meter medley relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

During her college career, she was a member of three of the Lady Longhorns' NCAA national championship relay teams—once in the 800-yard relay (1987) and twice in the 200-yard relay (1987, 1988). She was also a key points contributor to the Longhorns' NCAA national team championships in 1987 and 1988.

Steinseifer was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1999.[2]

Erin Phenix, USA Women's Sydney 2000 1 Gold 🥇

At the U.S. Olympic Trials on August 14, 2000, Phenix placed sixth in the 100-meter freestyle, earning a spot on the 4×100 metre relay squad in Sydney. For her efforts in the preliminary heat, she was awarded a gold medal.

Though she would swim at the Olympic Trials again in 2004, she failed to qualify for the Athens games.

Susie Thayer, USA Women's Swimming Moscow 1980 Boycott

Kim Rhodenbaugh Hall of Honor Inductee Women's Los Angeles 1984

Kimberly Lynne Rhodenbaugh represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She competed in the women's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished eighth in the event final with a time of 2:35.51.

Rhodenbaugh attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she swam for coach Richard Quick's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. She won NCAA national championships in the women's 200-yard breaststroke (2:14.92) and 200-yard individual medley (2:01.93) in 1985.[2]

Tory Trees Olympics Los Angeles 1984

Tori Leigh Trees (born June 6, 1965), later known by her married name Tori Smith, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She competed in the women's 200-meter backstroke event, and finished fifth in the final with a time of 2:15.73.[1]

Trees attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she competed for coach Richard Quick's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. In 1985, she won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard backstroke, recording a time of 1:59.11.[2]

Beth Barr Seoul 1998 1 silver 🥈

Elizabeth Cynthia Barr was a backstroke specialist and Olympic silver medalist in Seoul, South Korea swimming the backstroke leg for the second-place U.S. team in the 4×100-meter medley relay, Individually, she also competed in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing fifth in the event final with a time of 1:02.78, and the women's 200-meter backstroke, finishing fourth in 2:12.39.[2]

B.J. Bedford Sydney 2001 Gold 🥇

Barbara Jane Bedford is an Olympic champion, and former world record-holder.

Bedford participated in the the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia winning a gold in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay setting a new world record of 3:58.30 in the event final.

Erika Hansen

Erika Marie Hansen represented the United States at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.[

At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she competed in the B Final of the women's 400-meter individual medley and finished in eleventh place overall with a time of 4:51.03. Four years later at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she swam in the event final of the women's 400-meter freestyle and finished in fourth place with a time of 4:11.50. Hansen advanced to the final of the women's 800-meter freestyle, and recorded a time of 8:39.25 in a seventh-place performance. She also competed in the B Final of the women's 400-meter individual medley and finished tenth overall with a time of 4:48.37.

Olympian Jill Sterkel the greatest

Recognized in North End zone - Jill Sterkel Capitol one AIAW honor

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Recognized in North End zone Jill Sterkel - Honda award swimming.jpg

Jill Sterkel arrived in the Forty Acres from Hacienda Heights, Calif., in the fall of 1979 as a student-athlete on the women's swimming and diving team. She has served as the Executive Director of the T-Association since 2006.

Before joining the T-Association staff, Sterkel was the head coach of the UT women's swimming team from 1992-2006 and assistant coach of the UT women's swimming team from 1986-91. As an athlete, she was a four-time Olympian, winning two gold medals and two bronze in freestyle and relays. She is a 16-time individual national champion and is a two-time winner of the Honda Award as National Female Swimmer of the Year.

Sterkel earned her undergraduate degree in education and a master's in Kinesiology.

Jill Sterkel has received more honors than anyone in UT swimming history that includes 4 Olympic's teams in 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988

4 time Olympian

11 time National Champion

Jill Sterkel wins the National Championship in

the 50 free 1980-1983
the 100 free 1980- 1983
the 50 fly 1980-1983
the 100 fly 1980-1983

Jill Sterkel's honors include

1981- Jill is the only Longhorn Swimmer who has received the Broderick Cup National Female Athlete of the year
1979 and 1980 Broderick Award for National Swimmer of the Year.
Holds the national record for points scored (100) in 1981 and 1982.
Named to the All American team 27 times

Jill is a true Longhorn and American legend... and a fantastic person! I can’t say enough good things about her and I have seen her in action in various capacities. Since this is an athletic site, I’ll be brief. In the 1976 summer Olympics in Montreal, the US women were expected to dominate. But the East German “Ladies”, fueled by performance enhancing drugs, stole the show. No gold medals for the US women swimmers. On the last day, the last event, the 4X100 relay, the US swimmers were determined to win gold. After 2 legs, they were behind. Then a 15 year old girl hit the water for the US and took the lead.... Jill Sterkel! The ladies hung on to win Gold!!! Fast forward 4 years, and Jill was primed to win many gold medals in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.... she was going to be the talk of the swimming world.... but, yes, she never got the chance to dominated because Jimmy Carter decided the US would boycott the Olympics. Jill still swam in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics....the First American swimmer to quality for 4 consecutive Olympics!!!!! But as awesome as she was in the pool, Jill is a better mom and human being! Her greatness should never be overlooked. 👏👏👏💐💐💐🤘🤘🤘🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🥇🥇🥇 by Jim Deitrick