Laura Sogar | |
Birth Date: | 1991 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | Dallas, Texas, United States |
Strokes: | breaststroke |
Club: | University of Texas |
Height: | 1.78m |
Laura Sogar (born 27 April 1991) is an American swimmer.[1] She is a two times medal winner representing United States at the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2012 and swims for University of Texas at the United States Short Course Swimming Championships, a domestic and national level swimming championship in USA.[2]
She also holds the American national record for the women's 200m breaststroke event when she established the record for Texas in 2012.[3]
Sogar also claimed a gold medal in her college career for the University of Texas at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in the women's 200y breaststroke event.[4] [5]
She competed at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in her youth career claiming 3 medals including a gold medal in the Girl's 4 × 100 m relay medley event.
She then went to represent the United States swimming team in senior level competitions in late 2012 after competing at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships which was held in Turkey. She claimed a silver medal in the women's 200m breaststroke event and secured a bronze medal in the women's 4 × 100 m relay medley event.[6]
Sogar is engaged to comedian Matthew Broussard.[7]