Lauren Perdue

Lauren Perdue
Personal information
Full name Lauren Perdue
Nickname(s) Lo
National team  United States
Born (1991-06-25) June 25, 1991
Charlottesville, Virginia
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight 143 lb (65 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club Greenville Swim Club (NC)
University of Virginia Aquatics
SwimMAC Team Elite
College team University of Virginia

Lauren Perdue (born June 25, 1991) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle events. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team, and earned a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Perdue was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended J. H. Rose High School in Greenville, North Carolina. She swam for the Greenville Swim Club under head coach Casey Charles from 1999 to 2009. At the 2009 USA Swimming Long Course Junior National Championships, Perdue won her first championship in the 200-meter freestyle (1:59.09).

Perdue attended the University of Virginia, and swam for the Virginia Cavaliers swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 2009 to 2012.[1] As a Cavalier swimmer, she won seventeen Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championships, received eight All-American honors, and was named the ACC Swimmer of the Year and ACC Swimmer of the Championships in both 2010 and 2011.[1] Lauren broke her back in 2012 and underwent back surgery only 3 months before the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.[1]

At the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, the U.S. qualifying event for the Olympics, Perdue finished fourth place in the 200-meter freestyle,[2] and earned a spot on the U.S. relay team in the 4×200-meter freestyle event as a result. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she earned a gold medal by swimming for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 VirginiaSports.com, Women's Swimming & Diving, 2011–12 Roster, Lauren Perdue. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Scott Fowler, "Unlikely Olympian Lauren Perdue battles back to make U.S. swim team," Charlotte Observer (June 30, 2012). Retrieved July 14, 2012.
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