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Noelle Bassi
Noelle Bassi (married name: Noelle Bassi Smith; born December 1, 1983) is a butterfly swimming, butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the women's 200m butterfly event at the 2003 Pan American Games. She is best known for her 2004 National Champion swimming, National Champion title in the 200m butterfly, and her placement on the top 25 world/top 10 U.S. rankings lists for six consecutive years. Bassi is a three-time Olympic Trial Qualifier (2000, 2004, 2008), and a 2004 Olympic Trial Finalist for the U.S. team. During her tenure at Harvard University, she served as captain of the Varsity Swimming and Diving team and broke three school records. In 2006, she was the Ivy League Championship Swimmer of the Meet and in 2007 broke the Ivy League record in the 200yard butterfly. She is a multiple time NCAA Division I All-American and Academic All-American. She helped the Harvard Women's Swimming and Diving team to win dual meets against top-ranked teams. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
