Sep. 4—Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby announced Wednesday she'll forgo her final two years of eligibility at the University of Texas to swim professionally. Jacoby, 20, shocked the swimming world when ...

Jul. 25—On to the Olympic semifinals. Seward teenager Lydia Jacoby swam the second fastest time in the preliminaries of the women's 100-meter breaststroke Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished ...

Heading into the Olympic Trials for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, it was widely assumed that Lydia Jacoby, the Seward swimmer who shocked the world as a teenager at the Tokyo Games in 2021, would ...

One moment Lydia Jacoby was at the center of the global stage, and the next, she was alone with her thoughts. In 2021, the then-17-year-old became the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for the ...

The women's 100m breaststroke gold medal is staying stateside, just not in the lower 48. There's a new champion: Alaska's 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby. The American shocked the field by winning in 1:04.95 ...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World's Top-25 Female Performers With the Olympics a little more than a month old, it seems only reasonable that the ranking of the best swimmers in the world should ...

When swimmer Lydia Jacoby committed to Texas, she was just a top talent from Alaska without worldwide recognition. Jacoby's life turned upside down when she qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games.

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 ...