LAZOR Annie

United States of America

Swimming

Date of Birth: 17 Aug 1994

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: DETROIT, MI

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : BLOOMINGTON, IN

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 200m Breaststroke	3

Schedule

Change

Location	Event	Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke - Heat 3	Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke Semifinal 2	Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Breaststroke Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Pan American Games

Year	Location	100Breast	200Breast	4x100Medley W
2019	Lima, PER	1st (1:06.94)	1st (2:21.40)	1st (3:57.64)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	200Breast
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	1st (2:18.32)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Nickname:

Annie (Facebook profile, 22 Aug 2018)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Communications, Public Relations - Auburn University, United States of America

Family:

Partner Vinicius Lanza

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Mission Viejo Nadadores [USA] / Indiana Swimming Club [USA]

Sporting relatives:

He partner Vinicius Lanza has competed in swimming for Brazil. He won three medals, including one gold, at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 Nov 2020; Instagram profile, 11 May 2020)

Start:

She began swimming at age five. "Our local summer club was directly across the street from our neighbourhood; going there every day with my family made it easy for me to love the water." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 17 Aug 2018)

Reason:

She began taking the sport seriously after competing at her first junior national championships. "I made my first junior [national championships] team when I was 15. After I made that, my coaches told me I was crazy if I continued to play water polo or soccer instead of focusing on swimming. Looking back, I was so naive in the swimming world - I didn't know what any of these teams meant. I didn't know there were any international meets outside of the Olympics. Focusing on swimming helped educate me more on the sport and realise I could make some of these teams someday." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 17 Aug 2018)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Inside with Brett Hawke podcast, 11 Feb 2020)

Training:

She trains as part of a post-graduate group at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, United States of America. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 26 Jun 2020)

Hero:

US swimmer Rebecca Soni. (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 04 Jun 2019)

General Interest

General
TRAINING IN INDIANA
After returning to swimming following a break after the 2016 US Olympic Trials, she began training with her former Auburn University coach, John Hargis, in Pittsburgh, before moving to join the postgraduate group at Indiana University [IU] in 2017. "I took a training trip there during the height of the NCAA championship season to visit my Auburn roommate and IU post grad Ashley Neidigh. I loved the environment, the energy of the coaches and post grads, and could see clearly why Indiana had enjoyed so much success. Afterward, [coach John] Hargis worked with me collaboratively to reach out to Ray Looze and Mike Westphal to explore that as a new training environment for me. It's been great for me mentally and physically to train with other post grads and to take on the training at IU. The breaststroke group we have is unparalleled - training with and being around people like Lilly [King] and Cody [Miller] every day opened my eyes to new standards I needed to set in my training to be more successful." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 26 Jun 2020; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 17 Aug 2018)

COMPETITIVE BREAK
After the 2016 US Olympic Trials she took a break from competition, returning to the pool in 2017. She had become disillusioned with competing after her coach, John Hargis, left for a new job during her preparation for the trials and she failed to make the team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "I just don't think I was in the right headspace after everything that had happened to make the team. I kind of felt like for a while that swimming had kind of betrayed me a little bit, just in the events that led up to [2016] Olympic Trials. I felt like I was ready, and I just felt like everything went wrong. I could have handled it so much better, but I didn't. I was 21 years old, and I just felt like that was the end of my world. I started swimming again in September 2017 with my coach from Auburn, [John] Hargis, with his new programme at Pitt [University of Pittsburgh]." (podcasts.apple.com, 11 Feb 2020; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 04 Jun 2019; swimswam.com, 01 May 2019; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 17 Aug 2018)

COLLEGE TRANSFER
She studied at Ohio State University in 2012/13 before transferring to Auburn University in 2013/14. (Twitter profile, 07 Nov 2020; swimswam.com, 01 May 2019)

Social Media

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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