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 ...
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 ...
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.