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University of Southern California.
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Rhiannon Jeffrey
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Career
She was named state swimmer of the year three years in a row by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Jeffrey"s first taste of international success was at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where she swam on the United States. 4x100 freestyle relay team that took a silver medal. Jeffrey was highly recruited, and chose to go across the country to the University of Southern California in Los Los Angeles
Just two weeks before the 2004 United States Olympic Trials, Jeffrey was hospitalized with an abscessed tonsil.
She recovered in time to take 4th place in the 200 metre freestyle at the competition, and earn a spot on the 4x200 metre relay team in Athens. In 2007, Jeffrey left University of Southern California and gave up swimming four months before the United States. Olympic Trials for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
She relocated to Salem, Massachusetts, and took a job with Apple Incorporated.
Achievements
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Jeffrey began swimming at the age of six, and won eight Florida state titles while in high school at Atlantic Community High School in Delray Beach, Florida. While still a senior in high school, she won two gold medals in the 2003 World Aquatics Championships. Swimming as part of the United States. teams in both the 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relays. In Athens she swam in the preliminary heats of the 4x200 freestyle relay, and when the United States. team won the final, she was awarded a gold medal.
