Lindsay Seemann (born September 22, 1992) is a Canadian

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who participated in the 200-metre backstroke at the

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. At 15, she was the youngest athlete on the Canadian Olympic team. She was born and raised in Newmarket, Ontario and started her swimming career for the Newmarket Stingrays. Seemann swam for the

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Wildcats from 2010 to 2012, before transferring to the

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, where she swam for the

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from 2012 to 2014. She retired from competitive swimming in 2014, having won 18 national races and 48 provincial ones.

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Swimming Canada - 2008 Olympic Games teamLindsay has good results (and some fun)in Vancouver
1992 births Living people Arizona Wildcats women's swimmers Canadian expatriate swimmers in the United States Canadian female backstroke swimmers Iowa Hawkeyes women's swimmers Olympic swimmers for Canada Sportspeople from Newmarket, Ontario Swimmers from Ontario Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{Canada-swimming-bio-stub