Whitney Lynn Hedgepeth (born March 19, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer who won a gold and two silver medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Hedgepeth was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. She 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.
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 1989–90. As a Gator swimmer, she won two NCAA national championships: the individual 200-meter freestyle, and as a member of the Gators' winning team in the 4×100-meter medley relay. She received seven All-American honors from her performance at the 1990 NCAA championships. Following her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and finished her NCAA career swimming for coach Jill Sterkel's Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1992 to 1994. As a Texas Longhorn swimmer, she won three more NCAA national championships and received another twenty All-American honors, for a career total of twenty-seven.
She competed in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing eighth in the final. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Hedgepeth won individual silver medals in the 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter backstroke events, and a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. relay team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay event.
Hedgepeth retired from competition swimming after the Atlanta Games, and became a swimming coach with Longhorn Aquatics in Austin. Since 2005, she was the masters' coach of the Longhorn Aquatics program. In 2013, she was honored as the Speedo U.S. Masters Swimming Coach of the Year.
She was inducted into the University of Texas' Longhorns Hall of Honor in 2007.
In 2010, Hedgepeth was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
Hedgepeth's daughter, Dakota Luther, swam at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, and placed 15th in the 200 m butterfly.
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of Texas at Austin alumni
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
References
- "Olympedia – Whitney Hedgepeth". Olympedia. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- ^ Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement Archived May 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 61, 62, 64, 67, 69, 79 (2011). Retrieved July 9, 2012.
- ^ 2009–10 Texas Swimming and Diving, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, pp. 66, 68–69, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83 (2009). Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, Women's 200 metres Individual Medley". Olympedia. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, Women's 100 metres Backstroke". Olympedia. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics, Women's 200 metres Backstroke". Olympedia. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- "Olympedia – Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres Medley Relay". Olympedia. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
- databaseOlympics, Athletes, Whitney Hedgepeth Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- TexasSports.com, Texas Longhorns Women's Hall of Honor, Whitney Hedgepeth. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, Inductees, Whitney Hedgepeth. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
External links
- Whitney Hedgepeth at World Aquatics
- Whitney Hedgepeth at SwimRankings.net
- Whitney Hedgepeth at Olympics.com
- Whitney Hedgepeth at Olympedia
- Whitney Hedgepeth at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- American female backstroke swimmers
- American female freestyle swimmers
- American swimming coaches
- College swimming coaches in the United States
- Florida Gators women's swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
- People from Colonial Heights, Virginia
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Texas Longhorns women's swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for the United States
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the United States
- Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming