Jessica Hardy
Jessica Hardy was born in Orange, California, United States on March 12th, 1987 and is the Swimmer. At the age of 37, Jessica Hardy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 37 years old, Jessica Hardy has this physical status:
Jessica Adele Hardy (born March 12, 1987) is an American competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke and freestyle events.
In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hardy earned a bronze medal in the 4100 meters freestyle and a gold medal in the 4100-meter relays. She has won twenty-eight medals in major international competition, including fourteen gold, nine silver, and five bronze spanning the Olympics, World, and the Pan Pacific Championships.
Personal life
Hardy was born in Orange, California, in 1989, the granddaughter of George Hardy and Denise Robinson. Her mother swam collegiately for Indiana State University for one week and is now a psychotherapist. She attended Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach in 2005 and 2005 and was named Female High School Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World in 2004 and 2005. Hardy spent two years with the University of California, Berkeley, where she competed for coach Teri McKeever's California Golden Bears swim team. She was a four-time NCAA champion, and at Berkeley, she met her husband Dominik Meichtry, a Swiss swimmer and three-time Olympian. She gave up her eligibility and turned professional in 2007 to work with Trojan Swim Club of the University of Southern California's Dave Salo. She revealed in 2016 that she would now be training with Mark Schubert at the Golden West Swim Club in Huntington Beach, California. She earned her Bachelors of Science degree from Arizona State University in 2016.
She married Dominik Meichtry on October 5, 2013. In September 2017, the couple revealed that they were expecting their first child, which would be born in the spring of 2018.
Jessica Hardy's book titled Swimming Towards the Gold Lining: How Jessica Hardy converted her wounds into wisdom in 2015. The book "covers her transformation from trials to triumph, from wounds to wisdom, and from setbacks to comebacks." You know her name, but you won't know her true story until you've read [the] book].
She has long been involved in philanthropy work with organizations including the USA Swimming Foundation, the Jessie Rees Foundation, the Long Beach Water Department, and volunteering as an ambassador for the Olympic Internal Operations Committee, the USA Swimming Steering Committee, and the USA Swimming Athletes' Executive Committee.