American swimmer
Marybeth Linzmeier Dorst (born July 24, 1963), née Marybeth Linzmeier , is an American former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the Pan American Games and the World University Games in the early 1980s.
Early life
Linzmeier was a star swimmer at Mission Viejo High School in Mission Viejo, California and qualified for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow in several swimming events. Due to the United States-led boycott of the Moscow Olympics in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, however, she did not participate in the Olympics.[ 1]
Collegiate career
Linzmeier attended Stanford University , where she won eight individual NCAA titles competing for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team. She was later named to the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame .[ 2] Linzmeier missed qualifying for the 1984 U.S. Olympics team by three one-hundredths (0.03) of a second.[ 1]
After swimming
Linzmeier Dorst is a real estate agent in the San Francisco Bay Area .[ 3] She and her husband, Christopher Dorst , a silver medalist as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic water polo team , have three daughters.[ 1] [ 3]
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References
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