Jul. 25—On to the Olympic semifinals. Seward teenager Lydia Jacoby swam the second fastest time in the preliminaries of the women's 100-meter breaststroke Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics. She finished ...

Seward swimmer, Lydia Jacoby, greets fans and smiles for press photos at the Anchorage airport after returning home from the 2021 Olympic trials on June 23, 2021. Photos by Valerie Kern, Alaska Public ...

“It was definitely super special to see them all rallying behind me,” says Jacoby, now a twenty-year-old rising junior at the University of Texas. But in that underwater moment, it was her alone ...

Heading into the Olympic Trials for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, it was widely assumed that Lydia Jacoby, the Seward swimmer who shocked the world as a teenager at the Tokyo Games in 2021, would ...