Ashley Whitney
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| Full name | Ashley Ann Whitney | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 21, 1979 Nashville, Tennessee | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 123 lb (56 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Bolles Sharks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Georgia; University of Florida; University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ashley Ann Whitney (born August 21, 1979) is an American former competition swimmer who was a freestyle specialist and an Olympic gold medalist.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Whitney earned a gold medal when she swam for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay.
She was born in
Bolles School, a private prep school in Jacksonville, Florida, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Bolles high school swim team, a program with a reputation for producing future international swimmers and Olympians.[1] She graduated from the Bolles School in 1998.[1]
Whitney initially attended the
Cal Bears women's swimming and diving team.[2]
See also
Olympics portal
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
- List of University of Georgia people
References
- ^ a b The Bolles School, Athletics, Bolles Olympic Medalists Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
- ^ Whitney's bio from the Cal Athletics website.
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ashley Whitney". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-11-14.
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