Betty Brey

Betty Brey

Personal information
Full name	Elizabeth Evadna Brey
Nickname(s)	"Betty"
National team	United States
Born	(1931-11-23)November 23, 1931 Weissport, Pennsylvania
Died	March 21, 2015(2015-03-21) (aged 83) Lake Mary, Florida
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight	130 lb (59 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Walter Reed Swim Club
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for the United States Pan American Games 1951 Buenos Aires 4×100 m freestyle 1955 Mexico City 4×100 m medley 1951 Buenos Aires 200 m freestyle 1955 Mexico City 100 m butterfly

Elizabeth Evadna Brey (November 23, 1931 – March 21, 2015), née Elizabeth Evadna Mullen, was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.^[1] Brey swam for the silver medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay.^[1][2] She was not eligible to receive a medal under the 1956 Olympic swimming rules, however, because she did not swim in the relay final. In addition to her Olympic appearance, Brey also competed at the 1951 and 1955 Pan American Games and won two gold and two silver medals.

Following her Olympic experience, she became the swim coach at George Washington University. Her husband Paul was a high school athletics director in Maryland. Her son Mike Brey is the men's basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame,^[3] daughter Brenda was a swimmer at Louisiana State University and is a physical education teacher, while son Shane is the assistant athletics director at the University of Central Florida.^[4] Brey graduated from Purdue University in 1953, and served in the United States Army as an officer.^[5]

Brey died March 21, 2015 of a heart attack; she was 83 years old.

See also

• List of Purdue University people

References

1956 USA Olympic swimming team Men's Team George Breen Dick Hanley Robert Hughes Tim Jecko Ford Konno Frank McKinney Jack Nelson George Onekea Yoshi Oyakawa Reid Patterson David Radcliff Sonny Tanabe Albert Wiggins Bill Woolsey William Yorzyk Women's Team Betty Brey Carin Cone Susan Gray Kay Knapp Shelley Mann Mary Anne Marchino Maureen Murphy Nancy Ramey Joan Rosazza Sylvia Ruuska Mary Sears Marley Shriver Nancy Simons