Background
Hedgepeth was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hedgepeth was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Hedgepeth initially attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she competed for coach Randy Reese"s Florida Gators swimming and diving team in 1989-1990.
She reached the Olympic level as a swimmer for the Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming (VACS) under coach Dudley Duncan. Many Virginia Swimming LSC Records remain hers, over two decades later. She received seven All-American honors from her performance at the 1990 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships.
Following her freshman year, she transferred to the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, and finished her National Collegiate Athletic Association career swimming for coach Jill Sterkel"s Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1992 to 1994.
She competed in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South of Korea, finishing eighth in the final. Hedgepeth retired from competition swimming after the Atlanta Games, and became a swimming coach with Longhorn Aquatics in Austin.
As of 2011, she was the masters" coach of the Longhorn Aquatics program She was inducted into the University of Texas" Longhorns Hall of Honor in 2007.
In 2010, Hedgepeth was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.