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| Full name | Joan Ann Rosazza | ||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Born | May 19, 1937 Torrington, Connecticut | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 130 lb (59 kg) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Lafayette Swim Club | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Purdue University | ||||||||||||||
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Joan Ann Rosazza was born in May 19, 1937 in Torrington, Connecticut where she was raised and where she was eventually taught to swim competitively.
She is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. She represented the United States as a 19-year-old at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where she won a silver medal in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay with Sylvia Ruuska, Shelley Mann and Nancy Simons. [1] Individually, she also competed in the women's 100-meter freestyle at the Olympics and finished fourth in the final.
Rosazza graduated from Purdue University in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in education. She later attended Boston College, where she earned a master's degree in psychology and counseling. She then became a teacher for two schools, first at Winchester High School and then at Concord-Carlisle High School
She received the Massachusetts Women in Athletics Distinguished Service Award in 1999. [2]
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