Tracie Ruiz

Tracie Lehuanani Ruiz, who used the married name Tracie Ruiz-Conforto after 1985, is an American former competitive synchronized swimmer born on 4 February 1963 in Honolulu. She swam for the University of Arizona and won three Olympic medals: gold in both the solo and the duet, the latter with Candy Costie, at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, the first Olympics to include synchronized swimming, and silver in the solo at the 1988 Seoul Games. Olympedia adds that she was the 1982 world champion in the solo, won Pan American Games titles in 1979, 1983 and 1987, and took six United States solo titles and four duet titles. Her son Michael Conforto later played Major League Baseball.