Jenna Johnson

Jenna Johnson
Personal information
Full name Jenna Leigh Johnson
National team  United States
Born (1967-09-11) September 11, 1967
Santa Rosa, California
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight 139 lb (63 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle
Club Industry Hills Aquatic Club
College team Stanford University

Jenna Leigh Johnson (born September 11, 1967) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist.

As a 16-year-old, Johnson represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She won three medals: a gold medal in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, and a silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly.

She attended and swam for Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa her freshman and sophomore years.[1][2] She is an alumna of Whittier Christian High School, where in 1984 she set the national record of 53.95 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly and the D1 record of 23.07 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle. While living in Southern California, she trained at the Industry Hills Aquatic Club in the City of Industry, California.[3] She received an athletic scholarship to attend Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. As a 19-year-old, she received the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1985–86, and was a runner-up for the award the following year.[4]

Johnson made Rivals.com's list for the "Top 100 Female Athletes In State History."[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1998-99 GIRLS INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOL 100 YARD BUTTERFLY ALL-AMERICA
  2. ↑ Swimming World News - Lane 9 News
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Collegiate Women Sports Awards, Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Swimming & Diving. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Top 100 Female Athletes In State History
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