Joan Pennington

Joan Pennington

Personal information
Full name	Joan Pennington
National team	United States
Born	1960 Franklin, Tennessee
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, butterfly, individual medley
College team	University of Texas
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for the United States World Championships (LC) 1978 Berlin 100 m butterfly 1978 Berlin 4×100 m medley 1978 Berlin 200 m medley Pan American Games 1983 Caracas 100 m backstroke

Joan Pennington (born c. 1960)^[1] is an American former competition swimmer who won one silver and two gold medals at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships.^[2] 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.^[3] She was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1978–79.^[4]

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.^[3]

See also

• List of University of Texas at Austin alumni
• List of Vanderbilt University people
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)

References

1980 USA Olympic swimming team Men's Team Steve Barnicoat Bill Barrett Craig Beardsley Mike Bottom Mike Bruner Rick Carey Chris Cavanaugh Jeff Float Bill Forrester Rowdy Gaines Brian Goodell Matt Gribble John Hencken Bob Jackson Kris Kirchner David Larson Steve Lundquist Glenn Mills John Moffet Ron Neugent William Paulus Peter Rocca Brian Roney John Simons Dave Sims Dave Thornton Jesse Vassallo Women's Team Terri Baxter Lisa Buese Linda Burton Kim Carlisle Tracy Caulkins Stephanie Elkins Nancy Hogshead Linda Jezek Libby Kinkead Karin LaBerge Kim Linehan Marybeth Linzmeier Mary T. Meagher Joan Pennington Susan Rapp Jill Sterkel Susie Thayer Susan Walsh Sippy Woodhead Coaches Paul Bergen Don Gambril George Haines Denny Pursley Randy Reese Mark Schubert