Joan Pennington

{{short description|American swimmer}}

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| fullname = Joan Pennington

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| strokes = Backstroke, butterfly, individual medley

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| collegeteam = University of Texas

| birth_date = 1960

| birth_place = Franklin, Tennessee

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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}

{{MedalCountry | the United States}}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships (LC)}}

{{MedalGold | 1978 Berlin | 100 m butterfly}}

{{MedalGold | 1978 Berlin | 4×100 m medley}}

{{MedalSilver | 1978 Berlin | 200 m medley}}

{{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games}}

{{MedalSilver | 1983 Caracas | 100 m backstroke}}

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Joan Pennington (born c. 1960) is an American former competition swimmer who won one silver and two gold medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships. She qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but could not participate because of the United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics.

Pennington attended the University of Texas, and swam for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team in Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition. During her college swimming career she won eight AIAW and NCAA championships and received 28 All-American honors. She was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1978–79.Collegiate Women Sports Awards, [http://www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com/archives/swimdive Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Swimming & Diving]. Retrieved December 4, 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://texassports.com/hof.aspx?hof=55&kiosk=true|title=Joan Pennington (2001) - Hall of Honor|website=University of Texas Athletics|language=en|access-date=2020-03-24}}

She had a two-year break from swimming from 1980 to 1982 and finally retired in 1984. She received her master's degree in health promotion and exercise science from Vanderbilt University, and a doctorate degree in preventive health care at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University in California.

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References

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[http://www.les-sports.info/natation-pennington-joan-resultats-identite-s10-c2-b4-o15-w80745.html Joan PENNINGTON]. les-sports.info

[http://www.texassports.com/genrel/pennington_joan00.html Joan Pennington].texassports.com

J.D. Reed (April 17, 1978). [https://archive.today/20130119115056/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1093539/index.htm Thank Heaven For Little Girls]. SI Vault

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Category:1960 births

Category:Living people

Category:American female backstroke swimmers

Category:American female butterfly swimmers

Category:American female medley swimmers

Category:Sportspeople from Franklin, Tennessee

Category:Texas Longhorns women's swimmers

Category:Vanderbilt University alumni

Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming

Category:Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games

Category:Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games

Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in swimming

Category:20th-century American sportswomen

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