In her hometown of Seward, Alaska, Lydia Jacoby swims in a 25-meter community pool. “It’s worked perfectly for me,” Jacoby told the American-Statesman. So perfectly, the future Texas Longhorn became a ...

One way or the other, so goes the lore, Lydia Jacoby was going to be at the Tokyo Olympics. Had the Games gone off as pre-pandemic planned in 2020, the native of Seward, Alaska, and her family ...

USA’s Lydia Jacoby reacts after winning the final of the women’s 100m breaststroke swimming event during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo on July 27, 2021. (Photo by ...

Lilly King made it another breaststroke sweep at the U.S. Swimming Championships. Lydia Jacoby is going to her first world championships, two years after her shocking Olympic title. King, the Rio ...

Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Lydia Jacoby will not swim at next week's Toyota U.S. Championships as she extends a break since last June's Olympic Trials. "I’ve been taking a break from competition to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lydia Jacoby is still a bit shell-shocked. The darling of the Tokyo Games will be watching the Paris Olympics from home. If she watches at all. “You know, I haven’t quite gotten there ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lydia Jacoby looked up, stunned. Only 27 hundredths of a second separated her from Emma Weber’s second-place finish in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke final, but the two might as ...

TOKYO — The first U.S. woman to win a gold medal in swimming at these Olympics was not Katie Ledecky or Lilly King, but a 17-year-old from Alaska born on Leap Day who almost certainly never would have ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lydia Jacoby is still a bit shell-shocked. The Alaskan darling of the Tokyo Games will be watching the Paris Olympics from home. If she watches at all. “You know, I haven’t quite gotten ...

Seward swimmer, Lydia Jacoby, greets fans and smiles for press photos at the Anchorage airport after returning home from the 2021 Olympic trials on June 23, 2021. Photos by Valerie Kern, Alaska Public ...

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Forget about rose-colored glasses, since Olympian Lydia Jacoby is poised to make a different type of eyewear the new thing. The 17-year-old Alaskan swimmer took gold in the 100-meter breaststroke at ...