Description
Faith Elizabeth Mitchell is an American former competition swimmer who was a world record-holder, world champion, and Olympic silver medalist. She also was a member of the United States' 1994 Rowing World Championship team.
Mitchell began competitive swimming at age 5. She competed for Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania during her high school years.
Mitchell represented the United States at two consecutive Olympic Games. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, she won a silver medal for her second-place performance in the women's 100-meter backstroke, finishing with a time of 1:02.63. She also earned a gold medal by swimming the backstroke leg for the winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4x100-meter medley relay.
After the 1984 Olympics, she initially attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and competed for the North Carolina Tar Heels swimming and diving team during her freshman year. She then transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, and swam for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1986 to 1988.
Born
January 15th, 1966 in Cincinnati (Age 58)