Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Janet Evans
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== College === ==== Stanford University ==== Evans attended [[Stanford University]], where she swam for the [[Stanford Cardinal]] swimming and diving team from 1989 to 1991 under Stanford's Hall of Fame Women's Head Coach [[Richard Quick]].<ref name=SFGate_20070310>{{cite news|accessdate= |url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/10/MNGDGOJ2OV1.DTL |title=Stanford swim coach pulled from job; Kenney suspended for erasing records of 5 of his athletes|first=Tom |last=FitzGerald |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=March 10, 2007}}</ref> At Stanford, she received the [[Honda Sports Award]] for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year in 1988β89.<ref>Collegiate Women Sports Awards, [http://www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com/archives/swimdive Past Honda Sports Award Winners for Swimming & Diving]. Retrieved December 3, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/2010/04/02/olympian-julia-smit-wins-honda-sports-award-for-swimming/ |title=Olympian Julia Smit wins Honda Sports Award for swimming {{!}} The Dish|publisher=Stanford News |website=news.stanford.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-03-24}}</ref> At Stanford, Evans was an All-American eight times, dominating distance events. She captured all the 500 free and 1650 free events in both 1990 and 1991, and in 1990 also captured a 400 IM title. She also took two national titles in the 800 free relay during those seasons.<ref>"{{cite web|url=https://gostanford.com/news/2021/11/09/100-greatest-of-all-time|title=Stanford University, 100 Greatest of All Time, Janet Evans|website=gostanford.com|access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref><ref>Swam for Richard Quick at Stanford in "Evans, Biondi Lead", ''The Desert Sun'', Palm Springs, California, 24 July 1992, pg. 25</ref> ==== University of Southern California ==== When the NCAA placed weekly hours limits on athletic training time, she quit the Stanford swim team to focus full time on training. She began training at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] the Texas Aquatic Club around 1992 under Coach [[Mark Schubert]] who helped prepare her for 1992 Olympic competition. Schubert served as Head women's coach in the 1992 Olympics, where Evans excelled. After enrolling for the Spring semester in 1993, Evans graduated from the [[University of Southern California]] with a bachelor's degree in communications in 1994, where Mark Schubert had moved and continued his coaching career.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.teamusa.com/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-members/janet-evans|title=USA Swimming, Janet Evans, Athlete Bio|website=teamusa.com|access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A12F83F5D0C728EDDA10894DC494D81 |title=Swimming β Evans Becomes Older, Wiser, Taller, Heavier and, Best of All, Happier |newspaper=The New York Times |author=Frank Litsky |date=August 21, 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/eventsdocuments/rosters/olympics/olympic-coaches-historic.pdf|title=Olympic Swimming Head Coaches 1924-Present|website=usaswimming.org|access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref> At USC, Evans trained under Schubert, worked out with the USC team and the Trojan Swim Club, and served as a student Assistant Coach for two seasons for the USC Women's swim team. She could not compete for USC, however, because she had accepted commercial endorsements in Spring, 1991 after her Sophomore season at Stanford.<ref>"USC's Women Swimmers", ''The Los Angeles Times'', Los Angeles, California, 15 February 1944, pg. 42</ref><ref>Could not swim on college teams after 1992 in "Swimming, Piccotte Fast", ''The Los Angeles Times'', Los Angeles, California, 30 November 1992, pg. 49</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Janet Evans
(section)
Add topic