Jenny Thompson is unquestionably one of the greatest competitive swimmers of all time.  A native of Danvers, Mass., Thompson began swimming competitively at the age of seven and by the time she was 14, she was competing internationally and medaling at the Pan American Games. After capturing the gold medal at the 1991 World Championships, Thompson enrolled at Stanford University.  Collegiately, she was a member of four NCAA championship teams, amassed nineteen individual and relay NCAA titles and was named as the outstanding college female swimmer of the year for 1994-95. Internationally, she began a dominating run enroute to becoming the most accomplished swimmer of her generation. During the next four Olympic Games (1992 Barcelona; 1996 Atlanta; 2000 Sydney; 2004 Athens), Thompson captured a staggering 12 medals, including eight golds, making her at the time the most decorated U.S. Olympic swimmer, and both marks remain an Olympic record for female swimmers. Her 12 Olympic medals tie her for second amongst all Olympic swimmers with Ryan Lochte, behind only Michael Phelps, and her eight gold medals tie her for third with Matt Biondi, behind only Mark Spitz and Phelps. Additionally, she set 15 world swimming records, most of which were in individual events, including breaking one of swimming’s most revered records in 1999: Mary T. Meagher’s 18-year-old time in the 100m butterfly. Between 1994-2004 at the World Swimming Championships, Thompson captured 30 medals, including 15 gold. Overall, she owns 85 medals from international competition. Her list of career accolades is endless: USA Swimming Swimmer of the Year (1993 and 1998), Female American Swimmer of the Year (1993, 1998, 1999), Swimming World Magazine’s Female World Swimmer of the Year (1998) named one of Sports Illustrated’s “Greatest 100 Female Athletes of the 20th Century” (#62, 1999), and the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Athlete of the Year (2000).  Thompson was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1999 and Stanford University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.