Lydia Jacoby

Lydia Jacoby is an American professional swimmer from Alaska. Born on February 29, 2004 in Anchorage and raised in Seward, she started swimming at six with the Seward Tsunami Swim Club and had broken her first Alaska state record by the age of twelve. She was the first Alaskan to qualify for an Olympic Games in swimming, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:04.95. She later swam for the Texas Longhorns at the University of Texas at Austin, where she became the 2023 NCAA Division I champion in the women's 100-yard breaststroke, and she set national age group records in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke. Outside the pool she sang and played double bass in a bluegrass band for six years.