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December 13, 1972
Guelph, Ontario Canada Ann and Ken Jeffrey Karen Jeffrey Bsc in Landscape Architecture Oustanding graduate School of Landscape Architecture 96 Oustanding graduate College of Architecture 96 Top female student athlete graduate 96 Heather Farr award for top female student athlete 97 Traveling, Hiking and Camping, Scuba Diving Victor Davis, Silken Laumann |
BACKGROUND:
I started swimming competitively for the Guelph Marlins Aquatic Club when I was just 5 years old. My parents wanted me to be able to swim proficiently and Red Cross kept failing me because I was too small and kept getting too cold to swim. My first coach was Mel Davis, father of Canadian swimming great Victor Davis, also a native of Guelph, Ontario. I qualified for Canadian Senior Nationals when I was 13 and swam on several provincial tour teams. In 1988 at the age of 15 I swam at my first of three Olympic Trials and placed 2nd in the 400IM. I was not selected to the Olympic Team but instead the B team and traveled to Moscow for a dual meet against the USSR B team.
From 1988-1994 I was a member of the Canadian National Swim Team and competed at the 1989 & 1993 Pan-Pacific Games in Japan, the 1990 World Fina Cup in Rome, and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria BC where I placed 8th in the 400IM. In 1992 I accepted an athletic scholarship and headed off to college at Arizona State University. As a Lady Sun Devil swimmer I was a 4yrs NCAA All-American and earned 4 individual Pac-10 titles and took 3rd in the 400IM at the 1993 & 1994 NCAA Swimming Championships.
After graduating in 1996 I decided to take a break from competing and took a position as a Landscape Architect at a local Scottsdale, AZ construction company. It did not take long however for the local triathletes to recruit and get me hooked on triathlon. I raced my first triathlon in 1998 and competed as an amateur for 3 years before turning professional in 2001. For 6 years I focused on the ITU World Cup Triathlon circuit, competing in World Cups and Continental Cups around the world. I won the ITU Continental Cup races in Ixtapa in 2004 and Villarrica in 2007 and represented Canada at the 2002 ITU Elite World Championships.
In 2006 I moved back home to Canada and in 2007 made the jump to Xterra Off-Road Triathlon racing and instantly fell in love with mountain biking. For the next three years I quickly improved my skills and placed 5th, 8th, and 4th respectively at the Xterra World Championships in Maui and 4th at the inaugural ITU Cross World Championships. In 2013 I expanded my racing to include several endurance mountain bike events as I qualified to race the legendary Leadville Trail 100 MTB. I had a great 2nd place finish at the Cedar City 100 leading into the "Race Across the Sky" and went on to finish an amazing 4th overall women in 8:22 in my first 100mile mountain bike race. I ended the season with a top ten finish at the Xterra USA Championships and an overall 8th place in the Xterra USA Pro Series.
In 2015, after a long and successful triathlon career, I decided to take a step back and enjoy life outside the professional triathlon circuit. I am currently based out of bike and beer friendly Fort Collins Colorado where I am a Landscape Architect at Lindgren Landscape and still racing local and national mountain bike events.
I started swimming competitively for the Guelph Marlins Aquatic Club when I was just 5 years old. My parents wanted me to be able to swim proficiently and Red Cross kept failing me because I was too small and kept getting too cold to swim. My first coach was Mel Davis, father of Canadian swimming great Victor Davis, also a native of Guelph, Ontario. I qualified for Canadian Senior Nationals when I was 13 and swam on several provincial tour teams. In 1988 at the age of 15 I swam at my first of three Olympic Trials and placed 2nd in the 400IM. I was not selected to the Olympic Team but instead the B team and traveled to Moscow for a dual meet against the USSR B team.
From 1988-1994 I was a member of the Canadian National Swim Team and competed at the 1989 & 1993 Pan-Pacific Games in Japan, the 1990 World Fina Cup in Rome, and the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria BC where I placed 8th in the 400IM. In 1992 I accepted an athletic scholarship and headed off to college at Arizona State University. As a Lady Sun Devil swimmer I was a 4yrs NCAA All-American and earned 4 individual Pac-10 titles and took 3rd in the 400IM at the 1993 & 1994 NCAA Swimming Championships.
After graduating in 1996 I decided to take a break from competing and took a position as a Landscape Architect at a local Scottsdale, AZ construction company. It did not take long however for the local triathletes to recruit and get me hooked on triathlon. I raced my first triathlon in 1998 and competed as an amateur for 3 years before turning professional in 2001. For 6 years I focused on the ITU World Cup Triathlon circuit, competing in World Cups and Continental Cups around the world. I won the ITU Continental Cup races in Ixtapa in 2004 and Villarrica in 2007 and represented Canada at the 2002 ITU Elite World Championships.
In 2006 I moved back home to Canada and in 2007 made the jump to Xterra Off-Road Triathlon racing and instantly fell in love with mountain biking. For the next three years I quickly improved my skills and placed 5th, 8th, and 4th respectively at the Xterra World Championships in Maui and 4th at the inaugural ITU Cross World Championships. In 2013 I expanded my racing to include several endurance mountain bike events as I qualified to race the legendary Leadville Trail 100 MTB. I had a great 2nd place finish at the Cedar City 100 leading into the "Race Across the Sky" and went on to finish an amazing 4th overall women in 8:22 in my first 100mile mountain bike race. I ended the season with a top ten finish at the Xterra USA Championships and an overall 8th place in the Xterra USA Pro Series.
In 2015, after a long and successful triathlon career, I decided to take a step back and enjoy life outside the professional triathlon circuit. I am currently based out of bike and beer friendly Fort Collins Colorado where I am a Landscape Architect at Lindgren Landscape and still racing local and national mountain bike events.
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