Rhi Jeffrey
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Full name | Rhiannon Jeffrey[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Rhi" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1986-10-25) October 25, 1986 (age 37) Delray Beach, Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 198 lb (90 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Atlantis Aquatics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of Southern California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhiannon Jeffrey (born October 25, 1986[2]) is a former[3] American swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Swimming career
Jeffrey began swimming at the age of six,[3] and won eight Florida state titles while in high school at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach, Florida. She was named state swimmer of the year four years in a row by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.[4] In 2003, for her senior year at Atlantic, she was joined on the swim team by her younger sister Kirstie.[4]
Jeffrey's first taste of international success was at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where she swam on the U.S. 4x100 freestyle relay team that took a silver medal.[2] While still a senior in high school, she won two gold medals in the 2003 World Aquatics Championships; swimming as part of the U.S. teams in both the 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relays.[5]
Jeffrey was highly recruited,[6] and chose to go across the country to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[2] Just two weeks before the 2004 United States Olympic Trials, Jeffrey was hospitalized with an abscessed tonsil;[3] she recovered in time to take 4th place in the 200 metre freestyle at the competition, and earn a spot on the 4x200 metre relay team in Athens.[2] In Athens she swam in the preliminary heats of the 4x200 freestyle relay, and when the U.S. team won the final, she was awarded a gold medal.[2]
Retirement
In 2007, Jeffrey left USC and gave up swimming four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3] She relocated to Salem, Massachusetts, and took a job with Apple Inc. Jeffrey is currently the head swim coach for the Atlantis Aquatics swim team in Portsmouth, NH. https://www.teamunify.com/TabGeneric.jsp?_tabid_=176697&team=necsc[3]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of Southern California people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
References
- ^ "Women's Sports Net - Olympic Aquatics". Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Player Bio:Rhi Jeffrey - University of Southern California". Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "USA Swimming- 20 Questions with Rhi Jeffrey". Retrieved 28 December 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b Robb, Sharon (September 3, 2003). "Jeffrey Sisters Are Siblings Unrivaled". Orlando Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
- ^ "FINA Official Championship Results History – Swimming (women)" (PDF). Retrieved 28 December 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "USC Signs Pair Of Top-Flight Swimmers". November 18, 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2009.
External links
- Rhi Jeffrey at the U.S. Olympic Team at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-05-15)
- Rhi Jeffrey at Olympics.com
- Rhi Jeffrey at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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