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| Full name | Susan Walsh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Sue" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) Hamburg, New York, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of North Carolina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Frank Comfort (UNC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Susan Walsh (born 1962),[1] also known by her married nameSusan Stankavage, is an American former competitionswimmer who won two medals at the1982 World Aquatics Championships.[2] She qualified for the1980 Summer Olympics in the 100-meter backstroke, but could not compete because of theirUnited States-led boycott of the Soviet-hosted games. She was 0.01 seconds short of qualifying for the 1984 Olympics in the same event.[3]
Walsh was born inHamburg, New York, as the youngest of five children and started swimming because of her father Bob, a swimming official. She graduated from theMount Mercy Academy and then from theUniversity of North Carolina (1984), with a degree in business administration and accounting. At North Carolina, she swam under Head CoachFrank Comfort, who won an exceptional number of career meets, winning over 500 in his first 30 years as a coach.[4] In 1987 she became an assistant swimming coach and in February 1989 started working at the Educational Foundation, better known as the Rams Club.[3][5]
In 2003, she was inducted to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame.[6] In the 2000s, she was still competing in swimming in the masters category. In 2007, she set six world records in the 45–49 age group at the 2007 United States Master's Swimming Championships.[7]
She was married toScott Stankavage, a former American footballquarterback, from 1986 to 1997. They had three children: Sarah and Shelby are swimmers,[3][8] and Shawn plays football.[9][10]
