Whitney Hedgepeth

Whitney Hedgepeth

Personal information
Full name	Whitney Lynn Hedgepeth
Nationality	United States
Born	March 19, 1971 (1971-03-19) Charlottesville, Virginia
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	141 lb (64 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Freestyle, backstroke
Club	Texas Aquatics
College team	University of Florida University of Texas
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for the United States Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta 4x100 m medley Silver 1996 Atlanta 100 m backstroke Silver 1996 Atlanta 200 m backstroke World Championships (LC) Gold 1991 Perth 4x100 m freestyle Pan American Games Gold 1987 Indianapolis 4x200 m freestyle Silver 1987 Indianapolis 200 m freestyle Summer Universiade Gold 1993 Buffalo 200 m backstroke Gold 1993 Buffalo 4x100 m freestyle Silver 1993 Buffalo 200 m freestyle Bronze 1993 Buffalo 200 m medley Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1991 Edmonton 4x100 m freestyle Gold 1991 Edmonton 4x200 m freestyle

Whitney Hedgepeth (born March 19, 1971) is a former American college and international swimmer who won two silver medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia: in the 100m and 200m Backstroke, and a gold medal in the 4x100 metre medley relay.

Hedgepeth was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.

She was a three-time NCAA champion and received twenty-one All-American at the University of Texas, and also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Hedgepeth retired after the Atlanta Games, and became a swimming coach in Austin with Longhorn Aquatics. She currently (as of 2011) is the Masters Coach at the same program.

Whitney reached the Olympic level as a swimmer for the Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming (VACS) under coach Dudley Duncan. Many Virginia Swimming LSC Records remain hers, over two decades later.

Education

Hedgepeth initially attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she competed for coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in 1989 and 1990, before transferring to the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and finishing her NCAA career swimming for coach Eddie Reese's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1991 to 1992.

She was inducted into the UT Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.

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