Lydia Jacoby

Lydia Alice

Lydia Jacoby

 

Lydia Alice Jacoby specializing in breaststroke and individual medley events in swimming. She won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke and the silver medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Lydia Jacoby was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Seward, Alaska She started swimming when she was 6 years old with her local swim team, the Seward Tsunami Swim Club By the time Jacoby was 12 years old, she had broken her first Alaska state record in swimming

In addition to bass and singing, Jacoby can play guitar and piano. She has also served on her high school paper as a columnist and appeared in Port City Players productions more than once.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacoby was out of the pool for two months and found other forms of staying active including skiing and running with ice cleats. Jacoby and her father made a makeshift weight rack in the garage during the pandemic so she could continue lifting weights as well.

[table id=1539 /]

Similar Posts

  • |

    Mica McNeill

    Mica McNeill is the leading female British Bobsleigh pilot and world-class athlete who competes at a world-class level. She won a silver medal at the first ever Youth Olympic Games in 2012 together with becoming Junior World Champion at Winterberg in January 2017. Mica McNeill and Mica Moore achieved Team GB’s best-ever women’s bobsleigh result at…

  • Jackie Young

    Jackie Young is a basketball player. She was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in the 2019 WNBA draft. A graduate of Princeton Community High School. She played college basketball at Notre Dame, reaching two NCAA finals, winning one in 2018.  She was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in the…

  • Nadia Comaneci

    Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner, known professionally as Nadia Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast who is best known to become the first woman to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event in 1976, at the early age of 14. She began her gymnastic journey and was discovered at the age of 6 by gymnastics…

  • Tara Cunningham

    Tara Cunningham is a weightlifter from United States of America. Tara Nott Cunningham grew up in Stilwell Kansas. She was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. She is the only athlete to have trained for three different sports at the United States Olympic Training Center. Her…

  • Kirstie Ennis

    Kirstie Ennis is a former US Marine Corps sergeant turned amputee snowboarder and rock-climber and marathoner and a whole lot of other things, suffered life-changing injuries in Afghanistan. As a Marine Corps sergeant. in Afghanistan—a helicopter door gunner—she wrecked a leg when the helicopter she was in crashed. That leg was amputated above the knee in…

  • Alix Klineman

    Born and raised in Manhattan Beach, CA, Alix played indoor volleyball from age 8 to age 26. She attended Mira Costa High School, then went on to play at Stanford, and competed professionally overseas for five seasons before switching to beach volleyball in 2017. In her first season, she was voted AVP Rookie of the…