Theresa Andrews
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| Full name | Theresa Andrews | |||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
August 25, 1962 New London, Connecticut |
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| Height | 5 ft 5.5 in (1.67 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 137 lb (62 kg) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | |||||||||||||||
| Club | North Baltimore Aquatic Club | |||||||||||||||
| College team |
Indiana University University of Florida |
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Theresa Andrews (born August 25, 1962) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion. Raised in Maryland, Andrews gained prominence as a national collegiate champion who competed for the University of Florida. In international competition, she was a backstroke specialist who won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Andrews was born in New London, Connecticut in 1962. She grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, where she initially attended St. Mary's High School. She was one of twelve children of Frank and Maxine Andrews; her father was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former U.S. Navy officer. Andrews first trained in the Navy Junior Program as an age-group swimmer, and then moved to the North Baltimore Aquatic Club (NBAC), attending Archbishop Keogh High School in Baltimore, Maryland and staying with a succession of five sponsoring local families during her final two years of high school. She later described her training regime as "six hours a day, six days a week ... training in a pool." Andrews was among the first generation of elite swimmers to train under coach Murray Stephens at NBAC, a club that has produced a succession of Olympic swimmers after her, including Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff. She was the first Olympic medalist produced by the club.
Andrews accepted an athletic scholarship to attend Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and swam for the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and Big Ten Conference competition during the 1980–81 school year. As a Hoosier swimmer, she won six Big Ten titles, and earned five All-American honors.
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