Swimming's Jenna Long Wins Robin Chico Award
5/26/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving
May 26, 2010
OXFORD, Ohio -- Miami University women's swimmer Jenna Long (Yorktown, Indiana) is the 2010 winner of the Robin Chico Award, an honor presented annually to a RedHawk graduating senior who is the team's most inspirational student-athlete.
Miami head coach Dave Jennings praised Long for her career-long contributions to the team.
"Jenna Long was given this award because she handled adversity well and was an excellent team member throughout her four years of competition at Miami," said Jennings. "She handled tough decisions from the coaching staff with courage and was someone who always looked at the bright side of things. Jenna is what Miami swimming and diving is all about."
Long, a sprinter in the freestyle and butterfly events, was a four-time letter winner for the RedHawks.
ABOUT ROBIN CHICO AND THE ROBIN CHICO AWARD
This coaches' award is presented to a graduating student-athlete (whose eligibility has expired) who has demonstrated extraordinary persistence through compelling adversity while achieving excellence representing the Miami University women's swimming and diving program.
Through the commitment and dedication to her sport during the early setbacks of Title IX, ROBIN CHICO established an extraordinary standard of achievement while competing for Miami University's swimming and diving program. Along with five teammates in 1975, she qualified for the collegiate national meet but was unable to attend because of a decision by the university. Chico recorded the second-fastest time in the 100 butterfly that season and continued to compete for Miami during the next three years. She was victorious in every individual dual meet during her collegiate career, setting school records in the 100 and 200 butterfly, 200 and 400 individual medley, and the 200, 1000 and 1650 freestyles. Chico also was a member of five school-record-setting relay teams. She was undefeated in every individual Mid-American Conference event throughout her four years and was awarded the MAC's first Swimmer of the Meet Award her senior year (1978), as well as receiving the conference's initial Outstanding Senior Award.
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