The queen of the 100-meter breaststroke is looking to expand her reign to the 200 breast. Seward swimmer Lydia Jacoby posted a personal-best time in the 200 to pull away from 2020 European champion Sophie Hansson and win gold at the 22nd annual Mare Nostrum Swim Tour...
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby turned in two personal-best performances at the USA Swimming International Team Trials but was turned away for a Worlds berth by nine-tenths of a second. The high school senior placed third, fourth and fifth in three breaststroke races in...
The finalists for the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Directors Awards set the bar incredibly high, but the winners took it to another level. They were out of this world. Swimmer Lydia Jacoby won an Olympic gold medal. Obed Vargas made his Major League Soccer debut at age...
PRIDE OF ALASKA GIRLS FINALISTS For Consistent Excellence in Athletic Competition – For an athlete or athletes, team or coach who not only excelled in sports in the past year or recent years, but did so with integrity and sportsmanship so as to be a positive role...
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby picked up her first medal at the FINA World Swimming Championships after helping the Team USA 4x50-meter medley relay team take silver. She handled the breaststroke leg and posted a split of 29.6 seconds as the Americans (1:43.61) finished behind...
One day she’s making acceptance speeches at USA Swimming award banquets in Miami and the next she’s flying to Abu Dhabi for the FINA World Championships. So is life for Seward’s Lydia Jacoby, who has been on the move pretty much nonstop since the 17-year-old won two...
The Dimond girls continued their dynasty Saturday at the state high school swimming championships. Dimond, spurred by its dominance in all three relays — the 200 yard medley, 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle — splashed to its sixth straight state title with 98 points....
Upon returning from the Tokyo Olympics, Alaska was not on 15-year-old Jillian Crooks’ itinerary. But the standout swimmer from the Cayman Islands landed here and is relishing the opportunity. Crooks will represent Homer High at the state swimming championships in...
After winning Olympic gold and silver medals at the Summer Games in Tokyo, Lydia Jacoby of Seward was determined to come home and have a normal senior year. Well, normalish. Returning to normalcy after taking the swimming world by storm has been difficult given her...
Seward’s Lydia Jacoby was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after setting back-back-back national junior records at the FINA World Cup swim meet in Berlin. The 17-year-old Olympic champion placed second in Sunday’s 50-meter breaststroke with a personal-best time of...
Seward's Lydia Jacoby won another medal in the 100-meter breaststroke, this time claiming bronze at the FINA World Cup in Germany. The 17-year-old reigning Olympic gold medalist again showed moxie, traveling across the globe to deliver another strong swim in...