She again competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. She received a silver medal for swimming the backstroke leg for the second-place U.S. team in the women’s 4×100-meter...
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AUSTIN, Tex. — For the second day in a row, Betsy Mitchell of the University of Texas set an American record in her morning preliminary race at the Texas Swim Center....
After the 1984 Olympics, Mitchell transferred to the University of Texas at Austin, and swam for the Texas Longhorns swimming and diving team from 1985 to 1988. She won nine NCAA titles, and was a...