Sep. 4—Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby announced Wednesday she'll forgo her final two years of eligibility at the University of Texas to swim professionally. Jacoby, 20, shocked the swimming world when ...

Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Lydia Jacoby will not swim at next week's Toyota U.S. Championships as she extends a break since last June's Olympic Trials. "I’ve been taking a break from competition to ...

Heading into the Olympic Trials for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, it was widely assumed that Lydia Jacoby, the Seward swimmer who shocked the world as a teenager at the Tokyo Games in 2021, would ...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World's Top-25 Female Performers With the Olympics a little more than a month old, it seems only reasonable that the ranking of the best swimmers in the world should ...

When swimmer Lydia Jacoby committed to Texas, she was just a top talent from Alaska without worldwide recognition. Jacoby's life turned upside down when she qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games.

One moment Lydia Jacoby was at the center of the global stage, and the next, she was alone with her thoughts. In 2021, the then-17-year-old became the first swimmer from Alaska to qualify for the ...

Teen Lydia Jacoby made history on Monday night, upsetting favorite Lilly King to claim gold in the women's 100m breaststroke. At a watch party in Jacoby's hometown of Seward, Alaska, spectators went ...

The women's 100m breaststroke gold medal is staying stateside, just not in the lower 48. There's a new champion: Alaska's 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby. The American shocked the field by winning in 1:04.95 ...

On a night the U.S. swim team had two defending Olympic champions competing, it was 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby who took home the lone gold for Team USA. The Americans claimed four more medals at the ...

Forget about rose-colored glasses, since Olympian Lydia Jacoby is poised to make a different type of eyewear the new thing. The 17-year-old Alaskan swimmer took gold in the 100-meter breaststroke at ...