Lilly King

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2018 Women’s B1G Ten Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Full Name:	Lillia King
Nickname(s):	Lilly
Born:	February 10th, 1997
	Evansville, Indiana, USA
Nationality:	United States of America
Status:	Active

Lily King is a competitive USA swimmer who specializes in breaststroke. King was undefeated in the 100 Breast (meters & yards) in every format from 2016 to 2021. She is a 3x Olympian and an Olympic and world champion. The self proclaimed Mcdonalds enthusiast comes from a sporting family. Her father, Mark was a track and cross country runner at Indiana State and her mother Ginny swam for Eastern Kentucky University and Illinois State University. At 17-years-old, King finished sixth at the 2014 US Nationals and earned her first call up for the national team. She continued to climb the breaststroke ranks and burst on to the collegiate scene as a freshman at Indiana University. High School King has been on the USA swimming radar since a freshman at FJ Reitz High School and a member of Newburgh Sea Creatures. She won her first junior national title in the 100-yard breaststroke age 16 at the US Winter Junior Nationals. Her time of 59.67 was a new National Age Group record. 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Championships After finishing 6th at the US nationals, King put on the Team USA uniform for the first time in her career at the Junior Pan Pacs. Her first international medal came in her …

2018 Women’s B1G Ten Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

Ohio State’s Zhesi Li will go for her third individual title on day 4 at B1G Ten’s in the 100 free.

2018 Women’s B1G Ten Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

Lilly King will be hunting down a third consecutive B1G title in the 100 breaststroke tonight.

Indiana Women Set New B1G Record in 400 Medley Relay

The Indiana women broke their own team and conference records in the 400 medley relay tonight, even with Lilly King going a bit slower than she did when they set the old record last year.

2018 Women’s B1G Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Purdue’s Kaersten Meitz is looking to steal a win away from the traditional Big Ten powerhouse teams in the 500 free.

2018 Women’s B1G Ten Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

Indiana’s Lilly King is looking to defend her 200 IM title for the conference-leading Indiana Hoosiers

2018 D1 Conference Champs Week 1: Fastest 200 Medley Relay Splits

The fastest splits in each of the strokes on night 1 of the first week of Division 1 conference meets.

2018 Women’s B1G Ten Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Lilly King was a key member of Indiana’s record breaking 200 medley relay on night 1.

Indiana Posts 3rd Fastest 200 Medley Relay In History, Miss AR By .01

Lilly King’s blazing 25.84 breaststroke leg helped lead Indiana to the 3rd fastest 200 medley relay in history.

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We’re back with swimming’s top 10 tweets.

Katie Ledecky pre race by Mike Lewis

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Almost half of voters said they were most excited for the women’s Pac-12 Championships compared to the other four major conference meets to take place this month.

Emily Weiss Breaks National High School 100 Breast Record

Weiss, who represented the United States at the 2017 World Junior Championships, swam a 58.40 to win the race by almost four seconds.

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King Wins 3 Events as Indiana Men and Women Top Louisville

Breaststroke star Lilly King pulled off a winning triple to help the Hoosier women to victory over Louisville last Friday.