Career
Van Landeghem is currently studying and competing through the University of Georgia. Van Landeghem next competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships for Canada where she helped the 4x100-metre freestyle relay team place sixth. Her results led to her being named the Manitoba Female Athlete of the Year for 2011.
In 2013 she was named to the Senior National Team and competed in Barcelona at the FINA World Championship where she placed 9th in the 50 meter LC freestyle.
At the 2015 Pan American Games, van Landeghem started in the final of the women"s 100 free. There she faced off against American star Natalie Coughlin.
In the final van Landeghem trailed Coughlin but pulled ahead on the final lap and upset the favourite, setting a personal best and games record in the process. She said after the race that the home crowd "got me into lieutenant
I kept saying thank you when I got out of the water because they were amazing.
They really pushed me the last 15 metres. lieutenant"s nothing like I"ve ever experienced just because it was on home soil in Canada. Seeing that flag raised, I was just overcome with so much pride." Van Landeghem then repeated the upset over Coughlin, this time in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay where she beat the American again in a closer finish while setting another games record.
After the second upset she said "my confidence is sky-high right now.
I"ve don"t think it"s ever been this high Beating Natalie is obviously huge, but personally, a best time, that"s all I could ask foreign
We"re going into worlds in a couple weeks after this. To have these performances going into worlds is a huge confidence booster."
Van Landeghem was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and began swimming at the Manta Swim Club based in the Pan Am Pool from the age of 4.
Upon graduating high school she was recruited by the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team and currently lives in Athens, Georgia while she completes her degree in psychology.
Long course (50 m pool)
Short course (25 m pool).