Kathryn Paige Northcutt (born February 15, 1968), née Kathryn Paige Zemina, is an American former competition

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who was an Olympic bronze medalist.

Early years

Zemina was born in

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. She attended Fort Lauderdale High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where her mother was an English teacher, and she swam for coach Jack Nelson's Fort Lauderdale Flying L's high school swim team.Jim Varsallone,
Zemina's Career Peaks With Olympic Dream
" ''The Sun-Sentinel'' (November 11, 1988). Retrieved June 21, 2012. She was a five-time Florida state high school champion—three times in the 100-yard freestyle, and twice in the 200-yard freestyle. She set the national high school record of 1:48.60 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle in 1984. Zemina was also a member of a national record-setting team in the 200-meter freestyle relay (short course) in 1985. She graduated from high school in 1985.

College swimming career

She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she swam for coach

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's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1986 to 1989.
Florida Swimming & Diving 2011–12 Media Supplement
'', University Athletic Association, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 61, 62, 67, 75–76, 79 (2011). Retrieved April 10, 2012. During her career as a Gator swimmer, Zemina was a five-time NCAA champion, including the 4x200-yard freestyle relay (1986, 1988, 1989), the 4x100-yard freestyle relay (1988), and the 4x50-yard medley relay (1989). She also received twelve All-American honors as a college swimmer.

International swimming career

Zemina competed for United States national teams at international swimming tournaments in Germany (1983), Sweden (1984), Japan (1985), the Soviet Union (1986) and South Korea (1988). She became the center of a controversy at the 1985

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in Kobe, Japan, when two winning U.S. relay teams of which she was a member were disqualified because she was too young to compete. Zemina, who had turned 17 on February 15, missed the January 1 cutoff by several weeks, and the error was overlooked by

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authorities. At the

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in Moscow, Russia, she won two gold medals as a member of winning U.S. relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle and the 4×200-meter freestyle, as well as bronze medal in the individual 100-meter freestyle.Sharon Robb,
Zemina Aiming At Comeback Lauderdale Open To Be Her First Step
" ''The Sun-Sentinel'' (June 12, 1987). Retrieved June 21, 2012. At the

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in Seoul, South Korea, Zemina swam for the third-place U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay; together with

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, Mitzi Kremer, Laura Walker, Dara Torres and

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, she received a bronze medal.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes
Paige Zemina
Retrieved November 19, 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zemina, Paige 1968 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers Florida Gators women's swimmers Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming Sportspeople from Boynton Beach, Florida Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States Goodwill Games medalists in swimming Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games

Early years

College swimming career

International swimming career

See also

References