Jessica Amey Explained

Jessica Amey
Fullname:Jessica L. Amey
Strokes:Butterfly, freestyle
Collegeteam:University of Calgary
Stanford University
Birth Date:November 15, 1976
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec
Height:1.73m (05.68feet)
Weight:63kg (139lb)

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 was a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault LLP in Toronto, Ontario and currently works as a Planning Law solicitor for the City of Toronto.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sports Reference profile . Sports Reference . 2014 . March 22, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206175415/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/am/jessica-amey-1.html . December 6, 2013 .
  2. HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) and IIIb (2008 ed) . ("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. Web site: Jessica Amey . 2007-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926230251/http://www.mccarthy.ca/en/lawyerprofiles/new_micro_query.asp?Employee_CD=6006 . 2007-09-26 . dead .