Betsy Author

1988 – Olympic Silver

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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PLAYERS; MITCHELL SWIMMING ON RECORD COURSE

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive. To preserve articles as they originally appeared in print — before the start of online publication in 1996 —...

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U.S. Swimming Open: Mitchell Backs In to American Record in 100-Meter Event

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....

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1984 – Olympic Gold

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...

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NBC-TV Coverage of the Women’s 100 Meter Backstroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles

Betsy Mitchell earned a Silver Medal in the Women’s 100 Meter Backstroke, at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles....

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1984 Summer Olympics

The Journey to the Wins....

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