Rhi Jeffrey
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Rhiannon Jeffrey (born October 25, 1986[1]) is a former[2] American swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Swimming career
Jeffrey began swimming at the age of six,[2] and won eight Florida state titles while in high school at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach, Florida. She was named state swimmer of the year four years in a row by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.[3] In 2003, for her senior year at Atlantic, she was joined on the swim team by her younger sister Kirstie.[3]
Jeffrey's first taste of international success was at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where she swam on the U.S. 4x100 freestyle relay team that took a silver medal.[1] While still a senior in high school, she won two gold medals in the 2003 World Aquatics Championships; swimming as part of the U.S. teams in both the 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relays.[4]
Jeffrey was highly recruited,[5] and chose to go across the country to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.[1] Just two weeks before the 2004 United States Olympic Trials, Jeffrey was hospitalized with an abscessed tonsil;[2] she recovered in time to take 4th place in the 200 metre freestyle at the competition, and earn a spot on the 4x200 metre relay team in Athens.[1] In Athens she swam in the preliminary heats of the 4x200 freestyle relay, and when the U.S. team won the final, she was awarded a gold medal.[1]
Justin Wright Grooming Controversy
While training in New Zealand, Jeffrey, who was 24 at the time, entered into a relationship with a teammate named Justin Wright, who was 17. The story generated significant controversy and media attention.[6] Wright's parents withdrew their consent for him to continue to train, including not paying his dues to Swimming New Zealand. Wright, in what local media members consider to be a legal precedent, won permission from a court to become a member of Swimming New Zealand "against his parents' wishes.", and moved out of their house and in with Jeffrey. Their planned wedding was called off a year later.[7]
Retirement
In 2007, Jeffrey left USC and gave up swimming four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2] She relocated to Salem, Massachusetts, and took a job with Apple Inc. Jeffrey is currently the head swim coach for the Atlantis Aquatics swim team in Portsmouth, NH. https://www.teamunify.com/TabGeneric.jsp?_tabid_=176697&team=necsc[2]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of University of Southern California people
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
References
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External links
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- American female freestyle swimmers
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
- Sportspeople from Delray Beach, Florida
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- USC Trojans women's swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
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