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Lydia Jacoby
Personal information
Full nameLydia Alice Jacoby[1]
NicknameAlice
National team United States
Born (2004-02-29) February 29, 2004 (age 20)[2]
Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.[3]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke, individual medley
ClubSeward Tsunami Swim Club
College teamUniversity of Texas at Austin
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  United States
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 0
Swimming World Cup 0 3 1
Total 1 4 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
Swimming World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2021 Berlin 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2021 Budapest 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2021 Budapest 50 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Berlin 100 m breaststroke

Lydia Alice Jacoby (born February 29, 2004) is an American competitive swimmer specializing in breaststroke and individual medley events. She won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke and the silver medal in the 4x100 meter medley relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4] She was the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for an Olympic Games, qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in the 100 meter breaststroke when she was 17 years old.[5][6] For the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, Jacoby was the overall highest scoring female American competitor in the international swimming competition.[7]

Early life and education

Lydia Jacoby was born in Anchorage, Alaska and raised in Seward, Alaska.[3] She started swimming when she was 6 years old with her local swim team, the Seward Tsunami Swim Club.[3][8][9] By the time Jacoby was 12 years old, she had broken her first Alaska state record in swimming.[9]

Jacoby attended Seward High School in Seward, where she swam as part of the high school swim team, setting high school state records for Alaska in the 100-yard breaststroke in both 2018 and 2019. In 2020 she didn't compete on the school swim team due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead choosing to be home-schooled.[10] Jacoby returned to Seward High School in fall 2021 for her senior year.[11][12]

At the end of the 2020 year, Jacoby committed to swimming in college for the University of Texas at Austin starting in the Fall of 2022.[10][13][14] One of the college majors she expressed interest in at the time of committing to the University of Texas was fashion design.[9][15]

2018–2019: State titles and making the U.S. Junior National Team

Jacoby first qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in late 2018 when she was 14 years old. This first qualification was in the 100-meter breaststroke. She swam her qualifying time at the USA Swimming Winter Nationals swim meet in Greensboro, North Carolina.[3][10] That same year, Jacoby won titles in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley at the Alaska High School State Championships.[14] Her time of 2:09.31 in the 200-yard individual medley won her the state title in that event for girl's high school swimming.[16] Her time of 1:03.11 in the 100-yard breaststroke won her the girl's high school state title in that event as well as setting a new Alaska state record.[10][16] The following year, in 2019, Jacoby broke the Alaska state record she set in the girl's 100-yard breaststroke in 2018 with a time of 1:00.61.[10] Her swim also won her the title in the event at the 2019 Alaska State High School Championships.[10][17] Jacoby took third in the state in the girl's 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:09.83.[17]

At the 2019 Alaska Age Group Championships held from February 15–17, 2019, Jacoby competed in seven individual events including swimming a 56.51 in the 100-yard freestyle and a 4:49.84 in the 400-yard IM.[18] One month later, Jacoby competed in the 2019 Northwest Speedo Sectionals swim meet held in Federal Way, Washington from the March 14–17, 2019. She competed in five individual events including swimming a 1:00.76 in the 100-yard backstroke.[19]

In August 2019, she won the junior national champion title in the 100 breaststroke at the Speedo Junior National Championships.[3][20] Later in 2019 she became part of the U.S. Junior National Team.[3] For the 2019 year, Jacoby was ranked 16th in the United States for the 100 breaststroke.[13]

2020–2021: International breakthrough

In 2020 Jacoby qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in swimming in two events for the first time, the 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke events.[10] At the time she was one of 12 swimmers in the history of the state of Alaska to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Trials in swimming.[10]

On February 21, 2020, Jacoby competed in the Aqua Dog 2020 swim meet swimming the long course 50-meter freestyle seven times with her fastest time swum a 29.27.[21] Towards the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacoby expressed relief about the 2020 Olympics being postponed due to unfair conditions created with some pools closed and others open.[22] Jacoby shared her perspective with Anchorage Daily News in March 2020:

I feel like I'm in a good place now, because when they closed the pool I was really concerned about the Olympics and the trials — it's not a fair environment, because not everybody's pools are closed.[22]

Jacoby competed for Seward in a Seward-Homer Dual Meet in Homer, Alaska in early October 2020 where she won her two individual events including the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:03.95.[23] On November 6, 2020, at the 2020 Kenai Peninsula Virtual Invite, Jacoby swam a personal best and set a new record for the state of Alaska in the 100-yard breaststroke for a female with a time of 1:00.16.[24] In addition to taking first place in the 100-yard breaststroke, she won the girl’s 50-yard freestyle swimming a 25.39.[24][25]

At the 2020 U.S. Open National Championships in San Antonio, Texas Jacoby swam a personal record of 1:07.57 in the 100-meter breaststroke.[26][27] The time became the second fastest time swam by an American female in the race in the 15-16 age group in history behind Megan Jendrick who later won an Olympic gold medal in the event.[10][27] Although Jacoby took second place in the event at the meet, she won the national title because the person who took first, Anna Elendt, was a German citizen.[3][27] Jacoby dropped time off her 200-meter breaststroke swim at the 2020 U.S. Open as well, a total drop of about 5 seconds resulting in a new personal record time of 2:32.36.[26][28]

Jacoby made the 2021 roster for the U.S. Junior National swim team in the 100 breaststroke swimming with the club team she started swimming with, the Seward Tsunami Swim Club.[27][29]

At the 2021 NLSC Winter Time Trial in January 2021, Jacoby broke the minute mark in her 100-yard breaststroke swimming a time of 59.87.[30] By the end of March 2021, Jacoby lowered her 100-yard breaststroke time to a 59.35 and her 200-yard breaststroke to a 2:08.61.[31][32]

2021 TYR Pro Swim Series - Mission Viejo

NBC Sports: 100m breaststroke at Mission Viejo

In April 2021 Jacoby took second place in the finals of the 100-meter long course breaststroke at the TYR Pro Swim Series swim meet in Mission Viejo, California with a personal record time of 1:06.38.[33][34][35] She finished behind 2016 Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the event, Lilly King, and before 2019 Pan American Games gold medalist in the event Anne Lazor.[9][34][35][36][37] Jacoby's swim garnered press coverage from NBC Sports who featured her swim as a story highlight of the swim meet heading into the 2020 Olympic Trials in swimming in June 2021.[38] Jacoby's swim was the sixth-fastest time in the world for women in the event so far in the 2021 year.[36][37] It also catapulted her to the mark of the 14th fastest U.S. female swimmer in the event in history, and third fastest in the event in history for the U.S. females 17-18 age group.[9][36][37]

During the same meet, Jacoby lowered her personal record in the women's 200-meter breaststroke by almost 5 seconds swimming a time of 2:27.39 in the finals.[33][36] She also competed in the women's 200-meter individual medley, swimming a new personal record and finishing with a time of 2:29.38 in the prelims.[33][36] Her times in the 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter breaststroke were fast enough to secure her spot in both events for Wave 2 of the U.S. Olympic Trials in swimming leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics.[36]

Following the TYR Pro Swim Series - Mission Viejo meet, Jacoby competed in seven individual events at the 2021 Alaska Senior Championship from April 30 to May 2, 2021 including swimming a 1:16.28 in the long course 100-meter backstroke.[39]

2020 US Olympic Trials build-up

Jacoby was one of two swimmers from Alaska to qualify for the 2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials.[40] She was the sole female qualifier from the state, while John Heaphy from Eagle River was the sole male qualifier.[22][41] Both Jacoby and Heaphy were state champions in both the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley in 2018.[16] There was much anticipation building up to the Olympic Trials as no Alaskan had made the USA Olympic Team in swimming, meaning if Jacoby and/or Heaphy made the team they would be the first Alaskan(s) to do so.[38]

On May 24, 2021, Jacoby was listed as a top three pick by SwimSwam in the women's 100-meter breaststroke for the 2020 Olympic Trials held in June 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (the top 2 finishers qualify for the USA Olympic Team).[42]

Building up to the Olympic Trials, Jacoby honed in on racing two events during a given meet at the 2021 Alaska Swimming Junior Olympics Championships from June 3–6, 2021 by swimming the short course 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard breaststroke events for Seward Tsunami Swim Club.[43] On the morning on Friday June 4, 2021, Jacoby swam the 2nd fastest time in all prelims heats of the 15 & over girls 100-yard breaststroke qualifying for the finals in the evening of the same day with a time of 1:04.29.[44] In the evening, Jacoby swam the fastest time in the 15 & over girls 100-yard breaststroke finals with a time of 58.87 seconds, swimming the first 50 yards in a time of 28.12 seconds and the second 50 yards in a time of 30.75 seconds.[45][46] The next day, Saturday June 5, 2021, Jacoby and Heaphy received special recognition following morning warm-ups and before the first of the day's swimming events for their accomplishment of making the US Olympic Trials.[47] During prelims in the morning session Jacoby swam the fastest time in the girls 15 & over 200-yard breaststroke heats with a time of 2:15.09.[47][48] Following warm-ups and before the first event of finals in the evening of the same day, Heaphy and Jacoby were featured in video form providing supportive messages to the swimmers of the 2021 Alaska Junior Olympics Championships.[49] Jacoby was not listed on the heat sheets for the finals of the girls 15 & over 200-yard breaststroke and she decided to not swim in the finals of the event.[49][50]

On June 10, 2021, Jacoby was called a "Dark Horse Threat" to the women's 200-meter breaststroke event for the upcoming US Olympic Trials by SwimSwam in part due her 15th place seed time and in part due to her stroke's similarity to the stroke of Leisel Jones.[51] The same day, NBC Sports previewed the women's swimming events for the USA Olympic Trials, highlighting swims by USA women from 2016 to the article's publishing date on June 10, 2021. Ordering best times swum during the 2021 year pre-Olympic Trials, Jacoby was NBC Sports's 2nd place designee for the women's 100-meter breaststroke event at the Olympic Trials.[52] Two days later, the Peninsula Clarion released an estimate of 50 people from Jacoby's coach for the number of people from Alaska traveling to watch Jacoby race in-person.[53]

2020 USA Swimming Olympic Trials

In the morning on day two of the Olympic Trials, June 14, 2021, Jacoby competed in the prelims of the 100-meter breaststroke, swimming a 1:06.40 and coming in as the 4th fastest swim for all heats.[54][55] Jacoby became the second Alaskan to advance beyond preliminaries to the next round of competition, semifinals or finals, at a US Olympic Trials in swimming.[11] In the evening of the same day, Jacoby swam a 1:05.71 in the semifinals, ranking as #3 for the semifinals heats, and advancing to the final.[56][57] Her swim moved her up in the global rankings to 4th fastest swimmer so far in 2021 for the event and earned her the National Age Group record for the long course 100 meter breaststroke in the girls 17-18 age group.[58][59] Lilly King's respect for Jacoby and Jacoby's leap day (February 29) birthday were covered in addition to Jacoby winning her semifinal heat in the NBC telecast of day two semifinals and finals of the Olympic Trials.[60] Press coverage followed Jacoby's semifinal win and both local and national news outlets mentioned her potential of making the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[61][62][63]

On day three in the evening final of the 100 meter breaststroke, Jacoby swam a 1:05.28 and ranked 2nd in the final.[64] With this swim, 17-year-old Jacoby qualified for her first US Olympic Team in the 100 meter breaststroke, and lowered her National Age Group record from the day before.[65] Jacoby became the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for an Olympic Games.[5][6][65] Jacoby's swim also made her the second fastest swimmer in the world for the 2021 year up to that point in the women's long course 100 meter breaststroke and the eighth fastest swimmer all-time globally for the event.[66] In addition to being the first Alaskan swimmer to qualify for an Olympic Games, she was the second Alaskan in any sport to qualify to compete in the 2020 Olympics and the tenth Alaska-born Summer Olympian.[67][68]

In the morning on day five of competition, Jacoby swam a 2:31.29 in the prelims of the 200 meter breaststroke, ranked 26th, and did not qualify for the semifinals.[69][70]

2020 Summer Olympics

See also: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics
2020 Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 100 m breaststroke 1:04.95
Silver medal – second place 4x100 m medley relay 3:51.73

Jacoby was one of eleven teenage swimmers on the USA Olympic Swimming Team for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.[67] She was one of ten teenage female swimmers to make the team.[71] In the 100 meter breaststroke, she was one of 46 entrants in the event for the year's Olympic Games.[72]

On day two of competition, Jacoby swam in the prelims of the 100 meter breaststroke, finishing in a time of 1:05.52.[73][74] Overall she ranked second in the prelims, behind South African Tatjana Schoenmaker who swam a 1:04.82 and ahead of American teammate Lilly King who finished with a time of 1:05.55.[74] Jacoby swam a 1:05.72 in the semifinals and advanced to the final ranking third overall.[75][76] In the final she swam a time of 1:04.95 and won the gold medal.[77][78][79] Her medal was the first gold medal won by an American woman in swimming at the 2020 Olympics.[77] It was also the first medal won by an Alaska-born swimmer at an Olympic Games.[80] Her swim also set a new National Age Group record for American girls in the 17–18 year old age group.[81]

On day eight, Jacoby swam in her first relay at the 2020 Olympics, swimming the breaststroke leg of the 4x100 meter mixed medley relay and helping the relay place fifth along with relay teammates Ryan Murphy, Torri Huske, and Caeleb Dressel.[82][83][84] For her 100 meter portion of the relay, Jacoby swam a 1:05.09 without her goggles as they came off her eyes when she dove into the pool to start her swim.[4][84][85]

On the final day, Jacoby won her second medal, a silver medal as part of the 4x100 meter medley relay consisting of her, Regan Smith, Torri Huske, and Abbey Weitzeil in the final of the event.[86][87][88] Jacoby swam a 1:05.03 for the breaststroke leg of the relay.[4] Jacoby's swims caught the attention of Time magazine who acknowledged her as a "fresh face" highlight of the US swim team at the Olympic Games.[89]

Post-Olympic Games decompression

2021 World Cup — Berlin
Silver medal – second place 50 m breaststroke 30.04
Bronze medal – third place 100 m breaststroke 1:05.20

Returning to Seward, Alaska following the Olympic Games, Jacoby was welcomed home on August 5th with a parade and took a few weeks off from swimming to rest.[12] In September, Jacoby was named to the 2021–2022 USA Swimming National Team in the 100 meter breaststroke based on her performances earlier in 2021, it was the first time she made the US National Team, which is open to all ages.[90][91][92] Taking full advantage of her national team status, Jacoby competed in the FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Berlin, Germany on October 1st, swimming personal best times in multiple short course meters events including a 2:24.99 in the 200 meter breaststroke.[93][94] Jacoby had a breakthrough in the short course 100 meter breaststroke race also at the World Cup stop in Berlin, swimming a time of 1:05.20, winning the bronze medal in the event, and ranking her as the 13th fastest female swimmer in the race in 2021 up to then.[95] In her third event in Berlin, the 50 meter breaststroke, Jacoby won the silver medal in a personal best time of 30.04 seconds, finishing less than half a second after Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel.[96] Jacoby was selected as one of a handful of competitors to participate in a press conference at the Berlin stop, with a picture of her at the press conference being featured on the FINA website.[97]

Continuing on the World Cup circuit, Jacoby was highlighted as an American swimmer to watch in Budapest, Hungary at the second stop of the series by Swimming World and FINA for her 100 meter breaststroke.[98][99] Her first day of competition in Budapest, October 7, Jacoby placed seventh in the 200 meter breaststroke with a time of 2:26.18.[100] The second day in Budapest, Jacoby swam a 1:05.40 in the 100 meter breaststroke final, capturing the silver medal in the event.[101] Jacoby broke 30 seconds for the first time in the final of the 50 meter breaststroke, winning the silver medal in the event with her time of 29.97 seconds.[102] Jacoby ranked 13th amongst female competitors for her score of 86.1 points across all four World Cup stops, she competed at two of the four stops and also ranked as the highest scoring female American swimmer for the entire 2021 World Cup circuit.[7]

Awards season

The beginning of the 2021 awards season overlapped a bit with Jacoby competing at the 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup, receiving her first nomination in late September, prior to the commencing of World Cup competition, for the James E. Sullivan Award.[103][104] She joined skier Tommy Moe and bowler Ron Mohr as one of only a few Alaskans to ever be nominated for the accolade, though they tied in the sense that none of them, including Jacoby, won the award and the highest level achieved in the nomination process was finalist for the award.[104]

Following the first two World Cup stops, in mid-October, she was announced as a nominee for three Golden Goggle Awards, presented annually by the USA Swimming Foundation, in individual categories including "Breakout Performer of the Year", "Female Race of the Year", and "Female Athlete of the Year".[105] She was one of four swimmers who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics to receive three Golden Goggle Award nominations, with the other three being Katie Ledecky, Caeleb Dressel, and Bobby Finke.[106] Jacoby's nomination for "Breakout Performer of the Year" was inspired by her gold and silver medal performances at the Olympic Games as well as the historical significance of her being the first Olympic swimmer produced by the state of Alaska.[107] Her gold-medal-winning performance in the 100 meter breaststroke earned her the nomination for the "Female Race of the Year" for triumphing as a 17-year-old in a field of competitors composed of primarily of well-established senior swimmers including the current world record-holder and 2016 Olympic Games gold medalist in the event.[105] In addition to the reasons for her nominations for the two other awards, Jacoby was nominated for "Female Athlete of Year" for her silver-medal-win in the women's medley relay as well as contributing to making history for humankind by racing in the first-ever event at the Olympic Games in the sport of swimming in which men and women competed together, the mixed 100 meter medley relay, and overcoming the in-race adversity of swimming without goggles to split one of her fastest times swimming 100 meters of breaststroke.[108]

2021 World Short Course Championships

Not to have her competition progress halted by the awards season, Jacoby entered to compete in the 50 meter breaststroke and 100 meter breaststroke individual events at the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates starting on December 16.[109]

Personal best times

Long course meters (50 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Age Note(s) Ref
50 m freestyle 29.27 2020 Aqua Dog Anchorage February 21, 2020 15 [21]
100 m backstroke 1:16.28 2021 Alaska Senior Championship Anchorage May 1, 2021 17 [39]
50 m breaststroke 30.74 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan July 27, 2021 17 † [81]
100 m breaststroke 1:04.95 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan July 27, 2021 17 NAG [81]
200 m breaststroke 2:27.39 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo April 10, 2021 17 [33]
200 m individual medley 2:29.38 2021 TYR Pro Swim Series - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo April 10, 2021 17 [33]
Legend: NAG – USA Swimming National Age Group record (girls 17-18);
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course meters (25 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Age Note(s) Ref
50 m breaststroke 29.97 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary October 9, 2021 17 [102]
100 m breaststroke 1:05.20 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 2, 2021 17 [94][95]
200 m breaststroke 2:24.99 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup Berlin, Germany October 1, 2021 17 [93][94]

Short course yards (25 yd pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Age Note(s) Ref
50 yd freestyle 25.39 2020 Kenai Peninsula Virtual Invite Seward November 6, 2020 16 [25]
100 yd freestyle 56.51 2019 Alaska Age Group Championships Anchorage February 15, 2019 14 [18]
100 yd backstroke 1:00.76 2019 NW Speedo Sectionals - Federal Way Federal Way March 15, 2019 15 [19]
100 yd breaststroke 58.87 2021 Alaska Junior Olympics Championships Anchorage June 4, 2021 17 [46]
200 yd breaststroke 2:08.61 2021 Spring Speedo Sectionals - Phoenix Paradise Valley March 20, 2021 17 [31]
100 yd butterfly 1:03.95 2020 Homer-Seward Dual Meet Homer October 2, 2020 16 [23]
200 yd individual medley 2:09.31 2018 Alaska State Swim & Dive Championships Anchorage November 2, 2018 14 [16]
400 yd individual medley 4:49.84 2019 Alaska Age Group Championships Anchorage February 15, 2019 14 [18]

Records

National age group records (long course meters)

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Age Group Status Duration Ref
1 100 m breaststroke 1:05.71 sf 2020 USA Olympic Trials Omaha, Nebraska June 14, 2021 17 17–18 Former 1 day, 19 minutes, 5.28 seconds [56][58][64][65]
2 100 m breaststroke (2) 1:05.28 2020 USA Olympic Trials Omaha, Nebraska June 15, 2021 17 17–18 Former 1 month, 12 days [64][65][81]
3 100 m breaststroke (3) 1:04.95 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan July 27, 2021 17 17–18 Current – [81][110]

Legend: sf – semifinal

Awards and honors

  • Jacoby was the sole female recipient in Alaska in 2018 of the "Outstanding Competitor" award in swimming and diving from the Alaska School Activities Association and First National Bank Alaska. The award is presented annually to two selected athletes, one female and one male, who compete at the Alaska State Swim and Dive Championship.[111]
  • On May 4, 2021, the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors selected Jacoby as the recipient of the girls "Pride of Alaska Award" for 2021. She was the first swimmer to receive the award.[112]
  • For the month of July 2021, Jacoby won the SwimSwam honor of "Ultra Swim Swimmer of the Month" for her individual gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games.[114]
  • In September 2021, Jacoby was one of 38 athletes to receive the honor of being a finalist for the 91st James E. Sullivan Award, which was designed to recognize the accomplishments of select athletes who competed representing the United States, be it at the club, college, or international level, during the 2021 year.[103][104]
  • In October 2021, Jacoby received the honor of being nominated for three 2021 Golden Goggle Awards including "Female Race of the Year" for her gold medal-winning 100 meter breaststroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics, "Female Athlete of the Year", and "Breakout Performer of the Year".[105][108]

Background

Jacoby sang and played double bass as part of a bluegrass band named the Snow River String Band for six years performing at the Anchorage Folk Festival multiple times.[9][10] In addition to bass and singing, Jacoby can play guitar and piano.[9] She has also served on her high school paper as a columnist and appeared in Port City Players productions more than once.[9][14]

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.[8][15] When pools re-opened in Alaska, the pool in Seward remained temporarily closed so Jacoby practiced at Service High School in Anchorage with the Northern Lights Swim Club. Her mother, Leslie Jacoby, helped with commuting to the pool and renting an apartment to make swim practices.[10]

See also

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