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| Full name | Rhiannon Jeffrey [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Rhi" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | October 25, 1986 Delray Beach, Florida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 198 lb (90 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Atlantis Aquatics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Southern California | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhiannon Jeffrey (born October 25, 1986 [2] ) is a former [3] American swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Jeffrey began swimming at the age of six, [3] 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. [4] In 2003, for her senior year at Atlantic, she was joined on the swim team by her younger sister Kirstie. [4]
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. [2] 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. [5]
Jeffrey was highly recruited, [6] and chose to go across the country to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. [2] Just two weeks before the 2004 United States Olympic Trials, Jeffrey was hospitalized with an abscessed tonsil; [3] 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. [2] 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. [2]
In 2007, Jeffrey left USC and gave up swimming four months before the U.S. Olympic Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics. [3] 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 [3]
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