Jessica Amey
Personal information
Full nameJessica L. Amey
National team Canada
Born (1976-11-15) November 15, 1976
Montreal, Quebec
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesButterfly, freestyle
College teamUniversity of Calgary
Stanford University
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Canada
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 1995 Rio 4×100 m medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1993 Kobe 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Atlanta 100 m butterfly
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria 4x100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Victoria 4x100 m medley

Jessica L. Amey (born November 15, 1976) is a former competitive butterfly swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 25th position in the 100-metre butterfly,[1] after having won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay one year earlier at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships, alongside Julie Howard, Lisa Flood and Shannon Shakespeare.[2]

After her career on the Canadian national team, Amey attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in NCAA and Pacific-10 Conference competition. After completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford, she graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She is currently a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault LLP in Toronto, Ontario.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sports Reference profile". Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  2. ↑ HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.
  3. ↑ "Jessica Amey". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-03-22.


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