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Nancy Hogshead-Makar
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Medal record
Women’s Swimming
Representing gthe  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles 100m Freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles 4x100m Freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles 4x100m Medley
Silver medal – second place 1984 Los Angeles 200m IM

Nancy Hogshead-Makar won four medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics. After retiring from swimming, she became a lawyer, a spokesperson for asthma, an author, a gender-equity activist, a law professor and a wife and mother of 3.

Swimming

Nancy Lynn Hogshead was born April 17, 1962 in Iowa City, Iowa) but her family soon moved to Florida. Hogshead swam for Episcopal High School in Jacksonville, Florida where she was undefeated in dual meets and won two individual state championships and two relay state championships from 1977-78. [1] She won three national butterfly championships: 100 yards and 200 metres in 1977 and the 200-yard event in 1978. The next year, Nancy left home to train for the 1980 Olympics. She qualified for the team, but the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow kept her home.

Hogshead was the first swimmer offered a scholarship at Duke University, where she was again undefeated in dual meets and set a school record in eight different events which still stand. She only swam for one year at Duke, but she was a Four-Time ACC Champion and Two-Time All-American for 1981. After the swim season ended, and with the disappointment of the boycotted Olympics still on her mind, Hogshead stopped swimming competitively for nearly three years while concentrating on her education. By 1983, excitement was building for the ’84 Olympics and Nancy decided to resume competitive swimming, but switched from butterfly to freestyle. She won the 1984 National indoor 220-yard event and qualified for the US team.

Olympics

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California she swam the finals in the women's 100m freestyle. In the only dead heat in Olympic swimming history, Hogshead and US-teammate Carrie Steinseifer had identical times and both were awarded the gold medal (no silver medal was awarded). Hogshead won two other golds, in the 4x100m freestyle and the 4x100m medley teams. She also won a silver in the 200m individual medley. When a bronchial spasm kept her from winning a fifth medal, (she missed a bronze medal by 7/100th of a second) a physician discovered that she had asthma. After the initial disbelief, she accepted her condition and learned to monitor and control it.[2]

Asthma

She retired from competitive swimming, and with her Olympic fame, began to lecture around the world about asthma management. Pharmaceutical companies sponsored her and for a while, she spoke to over 100 groups each year across the US. In addition, Nancy earned the title of National Spokesperson for the American Lung Association. Between speaking engagements, she managed to graduate from Duke with honors in 1986. Hogshead authored the 1990 book, Asthma and Exercise, the first comprehensive book on the topic of asthma and sports. The book tells inspirational stories of outstanding athletes who learned to manage their condition to reach the highest levels of achievement.

Career choice

While in college, Hogshead was an intern at the Women's Sports Foundation. The organization had a strong influence on her career direction and she has worked with the group for more than twenty years. She served on the board of trustees from 1987 to 1993 and as its’ President from 1993 to 1994. She has been a member of its board of stewards since 1996 and still acts as the foundation’s legal advisor. Hogshead realized that a person must understand the law in order to be an effective advocate for equity in collegiate sports using Title IX. She applied to and was accepted at Georgetown Law.[3]

After graduating from Georgetown University Law School in 1997, she returned to Jacksonville in private practice at Holland & Knight, LLP. She represented student-athletes and universities in Title IX matters with the goal of achieving legal compliance without litigation. Hogshead has been a high profile advocate of gender equity in sports and is one of the nation's foremost exponents of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, especially relating to college sports. [4]

Hogshead married Scott Makar, a fellow lawyer at Holland & Knight, on October 10, 1999[5] and hyphenated his surname to her maiden name. Scott Makar is currently Florida's Solicitor General. They have a son and twin daughters.

In August 2001, Hogshead-Makar joined the faculty at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville and currently serves as a professor of law, teaching torts and sports law. In addition, she is the director of the Legal Advocacy Center for Women in Sports. She has testified in Congress numerous times and has served on two Presidential committees on gender in sports. Hogshead-Makar has been a frequent guest on national news programs on the topic of sports and gender equity including MSNBC, CBS’ “60 Minutes,” ESPN, CNN and ABC’s “Good Morning America”.

In 2007, she co-authored (with Andrew Zimbalist) the book, "Equal Play; Title IX and Social Change". The book documents how the government has influenced equality in education and athletics by presenting a collection of the best scholarship, essays, important court cases and administrative regulations.

Awards

  • 1977 AAU Nathan Mallison award as Florida's outstanding amateur athlete.
  • 1984 Come-Back Swimmer of the Year Award from USA Swimming
  • 1984 Kiphuth Award (given to the best all-around swimmer nationally)
  • 1993 National Association for Sports and Physical Education Hall of Fame
  • 1994 International Swimming Hall of Fame
  • 1994 Duke University Sports Hall of Fame
  • 1995 Florida Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2000 Ranked as Florida's 13th greatest athlete of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated
  • 2001 International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame
  • 2002 Honorary Doctorate from Springfield College
  • 2003 Yolanda Jackson Give Back Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation
  • 2003 Community Woman of the Year Award from Jacksonville University
  • 2004 International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2007 Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame
  • 2007 Honor Award from National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators
  • 2007 Named as one of the most influential people in the 35 year history of Title IX by Sports Illustrated
  • 200x Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2008 Academic All-America Hall of Fame from College Sports Information Director's of America (CoSIDA)

References

  1. ^ Florida High School Athletic Association: Feb 9, 2007-Butler, Carney, Carter, Hogshead-Makar front Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame’s 2007 induction class
  2. ^ National Institute of Health website: Faces of Asthma-Nancy Hogshead
  3. ^ Women's Sports Foundation: Profiles-Nancy Hogshead-Makar
  4. ^ Florida Coastal School of Law: Faculty Bio-Nancy Hogshead-Makar
  5. ^ Florida Times-Union: July 25, 1999-Lifestyle/Legal binding


List of Georgetown University alumni

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