Susan Shields

{{Short description|American swimmer (born 1952)}}

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| name = Susan Shields

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| fullname = Susan Marie Shields

| nicknames = "Susie"

| national_team = United States

| strokes = Butterfly

| club = Plantation Swim Club

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1952|2|3|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Erie, Pennsylvania

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| height = {{convert|5|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|132|lb|kg|abbr=on}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}

{{MedalCountry | the United States}}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze | 1968 Mexico City | 100 m butterfly}}

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Susan Marie Shields (born February 3, 1952), also known by her married name Susan White, is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist. She represented the United States as a 16-year-old at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a bronze medal for her third-place performance in the women's 100-meter butterfly, finishing behind Australian Lyn McClements and fellow American Ellie Daniel.Sports-Reference.com, Olympics Sports, Swimming at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417112340/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/SWI/womens-100-metres-butterfly.html Women's 100 metres butterfly]. Retrieved October 14, 2012.Margaret Farnham, "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19880821&id=Nk8xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-AIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3552,6113130 Olympic memories are preserved in bronze]," Toledo Blade, pp. G1 & G2 (August 21, 1988). Retrieved October 14, 2012.

Shields was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, but moved to Louisville, Kentucky with her family at a young age. She retired from competition swimming after graduating from high school. She later earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Louisville, and has worked as a teacher and swim coach.