Jenny Bartz

In Delaware, she swam with the Wilmington Aquatics Club where she was mentored by the highly accomplished ASCA Hall of Fame Coach Bob Mattson."Jenny Bartz Wins AAU Swim Title", The News-Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, 34 August 1973, pg. 18{{cite web|url=https://swimswam.com/legendary-coach-bob-mattson-dies-at-92/|title=Legendary Coach Bob Matson Dies at 92 |work=SwimSwam|access-date=19 November 2021}}

While training with the nationally recognized Santa Clara Swim Club, though a Delaware resident, she attended Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California. She won AAU titles in the 400 IM in outdoor competition in 1971 and 1973, and won an AAU indoor title in the 1972 200-yard IM.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/50960|title=Jennifer Bartz, Biography |work=Olympedia |access-date=19 November 2021}} Her 400-meter IM time in the 1973 AAU long course outdoor competition was 5:08.735.

Swimming for the Santa Clara Swim Club under Hall of Fame Head Coach George Haines at the Los Angeles Invitational Tournament in August 1971, Bartz finished first in the 800-meter freestyle relay, and fourth in the 400-meter IM with a 5:18.38."Pan Am Swim Reject Sets Swim Mark", The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, California, 8 August 1971, pg. 41 At the Santa Clara Invitational in July 1971, Bartz placed third in the 200-meter IM with a 2:20.2."Santa Clara Titles Fall", The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California, 12 July 1971, pg. 38

On August 2, 1972 at the Olympic Trials in Chicago, Bartz qualified for the Women's 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:24.51."Spitz Sets World Mark", Daily News-Post, Monrovia, California, 3 August 1972, pg. 10

Bartz competed in both individual medley events. She finished fourth in the finals of the women's 200-meter individual medley with a time of 2:24.55. She also advanced to the finals of the women's 400-meter individual medley, but again fell just short of a medal with a fourth-place performance with a time of 5:06.56.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes, [https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/jenny-bartz-1.html Jenny Bartz] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108094848/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/jenny-bartz-1.html |date=2012-11-08 }}. Retrieved October 20, 2012.

In April 1973, she won the 400-meter Individual Medley at the Coca-Cola National Meet in London England."Shane Gould Beaten", Anderson Herald, Anderson, Indiana, 24 April 1973, pg. 9

Bartz attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and swam for the Miami Hurricanes swimming and diving team on an athletic scholarship beginning in the fall of 1973. She was one of the first women swimmers to be extended an athletic scholarship which primarily covered tuition, and the pioneering move by the University of Miami greatly improved the standing of their women's team.Kearney, Bob, "UM Women Eye Swimming Title", The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 3 March 1975, pg. 104 With the exceptional skills of the newly recruited women's scholarship swimmers, during Bartz's swimming tenure, Head Coach Bill Diaz led the Women's team to back-to-back Intercollegiate Athletics' National championships in 1975 and 1976, establishing Miami as one of the nation's leading swimming and diving programs. Bartz's 1975 team in combination with the diving squads won six individual national titles for Miami, which was the most ever received in a single year.

In an exceptionally tight race at the 1975 Intercollegiate National AAU Championship in March 1975, Bartz finished only a half second behind the first-place competitor, with a 2:11.45 in the 200-yard individual medley."Rainstorm Cuts Short Women's Swimming Meet", Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, 15 March 1975, pg. 6 She swam on the winning 400 Medley relay team at the same 1975 National Championships who received a combined time of 4:40.82."Brown Leads Team to Swimming Title", The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 10 March 1975, pg. 32

Bartz transferred from Miami in the fall of 1975, to the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)."UM Women Defend Swim Title", The Miami Herald, Miami, Florida, 14 March 1976, pg. 158{{cite web|url=https://miamihurricanes.com/history/swimming-diving-history/|title=University of Miami Swimming and Diving History|access-date=19 November 2021}} Bartz transferred to UCLA partly to swim for Hall of Fame coach George Haines, the new UCLA men's coach, who she had swum with earlier in High School. At UCLA, she was also mentored by Women's coach Colleen Graham by her Junior Year. At the 1976 Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Bartz qualified for six events. At UCLA she swam with seven collegiate all Americans. Olympians on the team included Ann Simmons, a 1972 Olympian and former world record holder in the 800-meter freestyle, and Karen Moe, a 1972 gold medalist in the 200-meter butterfly. The Bruins had won the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team championship by a landslide.Strege, John, "UCLA Has the Swimmers to Win it All", The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, 18 March 1976, pg. 55

At the March 1976 AIAW Women's National Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, UCLA took second place team honors to first University of Miami, Bartz's former team."Miami Wins Women's Swimming, Diving Tournament", The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho, 21 March 1976, pg. 24

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