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| Full name | Joan Pennington | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1960 (age 64–65) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke,butterfly,individual medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joan Pennington (born c. 1960)[1] is an American former competitionswimmer who won one silver and two gold medals at the1978 World Aquatics Championships.[2] She qualified for the1980 Summer Olympics, but could not participate because of theUnited States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
Pennington attended theUniversity of Texas, and swam for theTexas Longhorns swimming and diving team inAssociation for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) andNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. During her college swimming career she won eight AIAW and NCAA championships and received 28All-American honors.[3] She was the recipient of theHonda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1978–79.[4][5]
She had a two-year break from swimming from 1980 to 1982 and finally retired in 1984. She received her master's degree in health promotion and exercise science fromVanderbilt University, and a doctorate degree in preventive health care at the School of Public Health,Loma Linda University in California.[3]
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