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University of Pennsylvania. Lia Catherine Thomas [2] (born May 1999) is an American swimmer. She is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022. [3]
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Biography. 2021-22: NCAA champion in the 500 free ... Finished fifth in the 200 free and eighth in the 100 free to earn first-team All-America honors in those events ... Ivy League champion in the 100 free ... Ivy League champion in the 200 free ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Lia Thomas interview: The story of the Penn swimmer at the heart of the transgender athlete debate - Sports Illustrated. ‘I Am Lia’: The Trans Swimmer Dividing America Tells Her Story....
Feb 22, 2022 · Penn senior Lia Thomas, a trans woman, won the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle races at the Ivy League Women's Swimming and Diving Championships this week. Mary Schwalm/AP. How an Ivy...
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Mar 17, 2022 · University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after finishing first in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event Thursday...
Mar 17, 2022 · ATLANTA — Lia Thomas, the transgender woman whose record-threatening times on the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team made her a star of college athletics and a symbol of the debate...