23-year-old American Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin is set to be inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2019. Along with 5 additional nominees, including Winter Olympian Todd Lodwick, Franklin will be honored during the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame banquet scheduled for April 3rd in Denver.
While a student at Regis Jesuit High School, Franklin earned Colorado Sports Hall of Fame’s High School Swimmer of the Year in 2010, as well as the organization’s Amateur Athlete of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. She was also Colorado Swimming’s Female Swimmer of the year consecutively from 2008 to 2013.
Franklin is a 6-time Olympic medalist, including individual golds in the women’s 100m back and 200m back at the 2012 Games in London. Her time of 2:04.06 in the latter events still stands as the World Record in the event.
Franklin’s past awards also include the prestigious Honda Cup – Top Female College Athlete in 2015, the Laureus Award – World Female Athlete of the Year in 2013, as well as the AAU James E. Sullivan Award in 2012.
Earlier this year the former Cal Bear relocated to Athens, Georgia to take up training under storied coach Jack Bauerle while also pursuing a degree is psychology.
She’s also engaged.
Congratulations to Franklin for earning this honor through years of hard work, dedication to her sport, heart of a champion, sacrifices, and achievements in the pool. Olympic gold medals are proof she is/was a superhuman swimmer. Life is good and swimming is great!
Swimswam please let Yozhik write a weekly op-ed. I’m here for it
The Colorado Sports Hall of Fame is the right place to be inducted into. Nothing has happened remarkable in her swimming career after she left this beautiful state.
i would put you in the troll hall of fame if I could.
Try harder
Your post is dangerously close to cyber bullying and should be removed.
I second TAA’s opinion. You’ve gone beyond just being critical. And you’re critical in this case for no reason.
I would put TAA in the Ignorant Persons Hall of Fame
Why? He’s right.
1:39.15 scy 200 free isn’t considered remarkable?
Remarkable is the fact that it came from nowhere. Neither her second college season nor the following in four months World Championships give us any clue of what has happened during this one week in the March of 2015.
Convert her result in 200 free, 200IM and 100 free shown during this meet to LCM times to get stunned of what should we expect from Missy Franklin and what has never materialized. Not even close.
You just love downvotes, don’t you?
Since I don’t know people who disagree with me then why should I care. It can happen that those are such people that being downvoted by them is a reason to be proud about.
If you want to read only things that are pleasing you then give me your contact info and I will do it with the great pleasure one time per day.
I am not saying anything about Missy Franklin that is not facts. How to interpret these facts depends on one’s individual inclinations. Am I her fan? not at all. Should SwimSwam block my postings because of that? It’s up to their business model.
That 1:39.15 200 free is a truly amazing swim! If that record survives Comerford this year, it’ll be there a long time.
Taylor Ruck.
@Dawser. Perhaps, but I’m not sure it’s in the cards that she’ll swim more than one year at the NCAA level. But you’re right 2019’s Comerford/TRuck 200 contest will be fun to watch — perhaps as exciting as the Townley/Blake one was earlier this March at NCAAs.
YOZHIK we need more creative and controversial writers like you on SWIMSWAM. It is way too vanilla. Some stirring o the pot gets people excited…WE WANT MORE OF YOUR INSIGHTFUL POSTS!!!!
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There’s a difference between insightful criticism and being a troll. This article did not justify the shot he took. Sometimes stirring the pot just means being immature
I would say her NCAA career at Cal will most likely put her in the hall of fame there.
YOZHIK isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Much respect!