Seward’s Lydia Jacoby was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after setting back-back-back national junior records at the FINA World Cup swim meet in Berlin. The 17-year-old Olympic champion placed second in Sunday’s 50-meter breaststroke with a personal-best time of 30.04, with sets a new record for Americans 18 or younger. The previous day Jacoby turned… Read more »
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby won another medal in the 100-meter breaststroke, this time claiming bronze at the FINA World Cup in Germany. The 17-year-old reigning Olympic gold medalist again showed moxie, traveling across the globe to deliver another strong swim in international waters. Jacoby clocked a time of 1:05.20 in her specialty event to finish a… Read more »
Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby picked up her second Olympic medal of these Tokyo Games, winning a silver medal in a relay to go with the individual gold she claimed earlier this week. Team USA turned to Jacoby for the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay, picking the 17-year-old Alaskan over a world-record holder for the finals in… Read more »
Lydia Jacoby lit up Seward all the way from Tokyo. The 17-year-old swimmer created massive electricity in her hometown after coming-from-behind to win the gold medal in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke at the Summer Olympics in Japan. Dozens of Seward residents gathered for a viewing party that looked like the Beatles came to town, with… Read more »
Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby won her semifinal heat to advance to the finals of the 100-meter breaststroke at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The 17-year-old comes into the finals with the second-best qualifying time of 1:05.52, just better than world-record holder Lilly King in 1:05.55. Yes, Jacoby is a legit medal contender on the biggest… Read more »
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after becoming the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for the Olympics, recording a sizzling second-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. The 17-year-old came back from fifth place at the halfway mark to nearly catch defending Olympic gold… Read more »
You can now call Seward’s Lydia Jacoby an Olympian. The 17-year-old became the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for the Summer Olympics after she recorded a sizzling second-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Jacoby came back from fifth place at the halfway mark to nearly catch… Read more »
Eagle River’s John Heaphy beat out 22 swimmers in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke to place 27th out of 49 finishers at the Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. The 20-year-old touched the wall in 1 minute, 1.92 seconds and was sixth in his prelims heat. Heaphy just wrapped up his freshman season at Arizona State University… Read more »
The only unanimous winner among the seven Directors’ Awards handed out this year, Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby has made everyone a believer. Jacoby lapped the field in winning the girls Pride of Alaska Youth Award after all eight Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors picked her No. 1 among the three finalists. It’s… Read more »
A state champion runner from Fairbanks, a state champion and MVP basketball player from Anchorage and an Olympic hopeful swimmer from Seward were picked by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors as finalists for the 2021 girls Pride of Alaska Youth Award. The competition among high school girls for the award was… Read more »
