Jessica Foschi
American swimmer
Jessica Kate Foschi (born 1980) is an American former competition swimmer.
Early life and education
Foschi is from Old Brookville, New York, and started swimming competitively at five years old at the Long Island Aquatic Club. By the age of 12 she was setting regional age group records. In 1992, she made the Junior National Team and won three national freestyle events.
She graduated from Friends Academy high school in 1998, and went on to attend Stanford University. She graduated from Duke Law School in 2007. While at Duke, she wrote a 2006 law review note on the general issues of doping and sports in the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law that is described as "impressive" in a 2015 textbook about sports law that also reviews and analyzes her experience with USA Swimming, the American Arbitration Association, FINA, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport that began in 1995.
Swimming career
In March 1995, at age 14, Foschi placed second in the 800 freestyle at the Spring Nationals to Janet Evans by less than a half-second. By November 1995, Foschi had a global ranking of 13th in the 800 freestyle, and according to Newsday was considered by "most swimming observers" to be a "longshot" for the 1996 Olympics team but otherwise "a clear candidate for elite status later in her career."
In November 1995, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Foschi tested positive for steroids after coming in third place for the 1500-meter freestyle at the August 1995 Summer Nationals championships in Pasadena, California. The steroid found in her urine, mesterolone, was not legally available in the United States and was found in her sample at one of the highest levels measured in a male or female athlete.
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