Cathy Ferguson

Cathy Ferguson is an American former competition swimmer, born on 22 July 1948 and raised in Stockton and Burbank, California, who swam for the Los Angeles Athletic Club under coaches Ken Schafter and Peter Daland. As a sixteen year old high school junior she won two gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, taking the women's 100 metre backstroke in a world record 1:07.7, just ahead of Christine Caron of France, and swimming the backstroke opening leg of the United States team that won the 4x100 metre medley relay in another world record. She later earned a doctorate and spent twenty years as a professor, coach and director of aquatics at California State University, Long Beach, and also worked in sports medicine and as chief executive of a Girl Scouts council. She competed for a time under the married name Cathy Ferguson Brennan.