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 ...

Jul. 25—On to the Olympic semifinals. Seward teenager Lydia Jacoby swam the second fastest time in the preliminaries of the women's 100-meter breaststroke Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished ...

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 she won ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...