Natasha Moodie

Natasha Moodie

Personal information
Full name	Natasha Moodie
National team	Jamaica
Born	(1990-10-08) 8 October 1990 Kingston, Jamaica
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
College team	University of Michigan (U.S.)

Natasha Moodie (born 8 October 1990) is a Jamaican competition swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events.^[1] She is a three-time national record holder and NCAA All-American champion, and was a member of the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team, while studying kinesiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Moodie qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after winning the sprint freestyle event at the Toyota Grand Prix at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, with an Olympic standard time of 26.61 seconds.^[2] She swam in the eighth heat of the women's 50 m freestyle event, against five other competitors including Israel's Anya Gostomelsky and eighteen-year-old Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace from the Bahamas, who both made an early lead in the pool. Moodie came only in fifth place by thirteen hundredths of a second (0.13), to Iceland's Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir, with a record-breaking time of 25.95 seconds. Moodie, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-seventh out of ninety-two swimmers in the overall rankings.^[3]

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Moodie matched her national record time of 25.95 seconds from the Olympics, in the 50 m freestyle event. She also achieved her personal best of 57.71 seconds for the 100 m freestyle. Both of her swimming events, however, were not sufficiently enough to pass the first round.^[4]

References

External links

• Profile – Michigan Go Blue
• NBC Olympics Profile