Teresa Crippen

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Teresa Crippen
Personal information
National teamFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Born (1990-04-12) April 12, 1990 (age 34)
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Medley, backstroke, butterfly
ClubGermantown Academy
College team University of Florida
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing the United States
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Rio 200 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Rio 4x200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Rio 400 m medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2010 Irvine 200 m butterfly

Teresa Crippen (born April 12, 1990) is an American competition swimmer who was a Pan American Games gold medalist.

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Crippen was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania in 2008.

She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2009 to 2012. [1] During her four-year college career, she won two individual Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships in the 400-yard individual medley (2010) and the 200-yard backstroke (2011). She earned a total of seventeen All-American honors, including six as a senior in 2012. [2]

At the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Crippen won the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke and the silver in the 400-meter individual medley. She also won a gold by swimming in the prelims of the 4x200-meter At the 2010 US National Championships, the selection meet for both the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, Crippen placed second in the 200-meter butterfly and fifth in both the 400-meter individual medley and 200-meter backstroke. [3] [4] [5]

Crippen won the silver medal at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships in the 200-meter butterfly, placing second to former world-record holder Jessicah Schipper. [6]

Teresa Crippen is the younger sister of swimmers Maddy, Fran and Claire Crippen.

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References

  1. ↑ Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement , University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 4, 11, 34, 61–62, 67, 75–76, 79 (2011). Retrieved July 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ GatorZone.com, Women's Swimming & Diving, 2011–12 Roster, Teresa Crippen Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ "2010 US National Championships results: Women's 200 m butterfly" (PDF). August 6, 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. ↑ "2010 US National Championships results: Women's 400 m individual medley" (PDF). August 5, 2010.
  5. ↑ "2010 US National Championships results: Women's 200 m backstroke" (PDF). August 6, 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ "2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships results: Women's 200 m butterfly" (PDF). August 18, 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 2, 2012.
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