Janel Simone Jorgensen (born May 18, 1971), later known by her married name Janel McArdle, is an American former competition

swimmer 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 ...

and

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

specialist. As a 17-year-old at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

in Seoul, South Korea, she won a silver medal as a member of the second-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay, together with her teammates Beth Barr (

backstroke Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four Swimming (sport), swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disa ...

), Tracey McFarlane (

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

), and

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(freestyle).Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes
Janel Jorgensen
. Retrieved November 13, 2012. Jorgensen received an athletic scholarship to attend

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where she swam for the

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swimming and diving team in

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...

(NCAA) and Pacific-10 Conference competition. In 1992–93, she was the recipient of the Honda Sports Award for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year. In 2021, she was honored to be a part of the CSCAA's 100 Greatest Collegiate Swimmers of All Time. Jorgensen is the current COO of Swim Across America, a national non-profit organization that has raised over $100 million for cancer research, prevention and treatment through swimming events all over the United States.Terry Cookston,
Swim Across America Makes Waves in Rockwall
" ''Rockwall Herald-Banner'' (June 22, 2011). Retrieved November 13, 2012.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jorgensen, Janel 1971 births Living people American female butterfly swimmers Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming Stanford Cardinal women's swimmers Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in swimming 20th-century American women

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