Trina Jackson

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Trina Jackson
Personal information
Full nameTrina Marie Jackson
National teamFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Born (1977-02-16) February 16, 1977 (age 44)
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight128 lb (58 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
ClubBolles Sharks
College team University of Arizona

Trina Marie Jackson (born February 16, 1977), also known by her married name as Trina Falca, is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Jackson won a gold medal as a member of the first-place U.S. team in the women's 4×200-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Jenny Thompson, Cristina Teuscher and Sheila Taormina. The four Americans set a new Olympic record of 7:59.87 in the vent final. [1] She missed a bronze in the individual 200 freestyle by just 0.01 to Dagmar Hase.

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For high school, Jackson attended the 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. [2] She graduated from the Bolles School in 1995. [2]

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References

  1. Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, Trina Jackson. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
  2. 1 2 The Bolles School, Athletics, Bolles Olympic Medalists Archived 2015-07-07 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved March 6, 2015.