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...teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
Coach Schubert first saw this astonishing child swim in 1984 in San Jose, California, in the 1,500-m race at the junior nationals. She was 12, two years younger than the next youngest girl, and a couple of inches short of 5 ft. tall. She destroyed the field, recalls Schubert with the misty look of a trainer who knows he isn't likely to see anything like that again. By the time the Seoul Olympics were on the horizon, competition in women's distance swimming tended to be for second place. In the last...
...strong showing in optionals and finished second. It would protect her a little from the pressures of being No. 1." Asked to respond, Moceanu blurted, "I want to win!", leaving Karolyi laughing and shaking his head. After she did just that two nights later, making her the youngest U.S. champion in history, Moceanu still refused to take her cues from Karolyi. Once again, Moceanu held her tongue as Karolyi fretted about his protege peaking too early. But when she was asked whether she liked the attention, Moceanu flashed a smile and said, "Yeah! Of course!" Like, who wouldn...
...never stopped swimming either. In May her family gave her a 90th birthday party and then put her on a plane for the U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in Cupertino, California. Aileen, the youngest female gold medalist in 1920 (and oldest living female one in the U.S.), won four gold medals in her age group...
...reserves of talent in the youngest members of the team make the outlook for next year even brighter...