Lilly King
Lilly King as Grand Marshal of the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival Parade
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| Full name | Lilly King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | King | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United States
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February 10, 1997 Evansville, Indiana |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FJ Reitz High School Panthers Evansville, Indiana Newburgh Sea Creatures Newburgh, Indiana |
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| College team | Indiana University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lilly King (born February 10, 1997) is an American swimmer. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke competition and also won a gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay, in which she swam the breaststroke leg.
King was raised in Evansville, Indiana, the daughter of Mark and Ginny King. Mark ran track and cross-country at Indiana State University and Ginny swam for Eastern Kentucky University and Illinois State University. King's younger brother Alex is a walk-on swimmer at the University of Michigan. King attended FJ Reitz High School, where the school's swim team shared Lloyd Pool with five other teams. The lanes at Lloyd Pool were often crowded with swimmers below King's ability, so in order to help compensate, King added several morning practices a week with the local masters team and joined a competitive swim team called the Newburgh Sea Creatures.
King attends Indiana University Bloomington, where she competes for the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team.
At the 2016 NCAA finals, her freshman year, she was crowned the NCAA Champion in the 100 yard breaststroke (56.85) and 200 yard breaststroke (2:03.59). The performance established King as one of the best short course yards breaststroke swimmers in history, setting the American, NCAA, NCAA Meet, U.S. Open, Indiana school, Big Ten, and Georgia Tech Pool records in winning the NCAA titles. That same freshman year she was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, earned four All-America honors, First-Team All-Big Ten, and Big Ten Freshman of the Year.
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