Best Stroke/times: Freestyle-mainly distance (love the 500)
Swim Team/Club Name: Summit Varsity Falcons (98-01)
College Team Name:
Favorite swimmer: Michael Phelps, Dara Torres
Most exciting race I've ever seen: Michael Phelps 100M Butterfly at the Olympics Bejing 2008. Junior year HS: One of our 4x100 free relay teams were a lap behind. Anchor dove in, did butterfly and beat the other girl by a by body length! It was amazing!!
Swimming Goals: Improve butterfly, always looking to stregthen my strokes and make them cleaner.
Favorite practice set: Warm up- 100 swim, 100 kick, 100 pull
Most painful workout: The first hard workout after my knee surgery.
Years in swimming: 13
Greatest Swimming Moment: Doing the 500, felt like I was gliding on the water. That same race, I laped another swimmer by a 100!

Personal Description : I have been swimming since before I could walk. I swam competitivly for 13 years. My university did not have a swim team :( However, I still love to go to the pool and do laps. I love to swim, dance, sing, read, workout, stretch, play with my puppy, Loki, watch the St. Louis Cardinals, travel, garden,and practice speaking Spanish.
Interests: Swimming, Singing, Dancing, reading, hanging out w/ my brothers, service projects, Baseball, Football, History, Spanish, traveling
Favorite Quotes: Swimming is a sport!
Organizations: Alpha Phi Omega, EMAA
Honors and Awards: Alpha Phi Omega's Section 49 Railraoders award
Favorite music: Carlos Santana (fav. artist), Daddy Yankee, Nelly Furtado, OneRepublic, The Beatles, The Fray, Goo Goo Dolls, Lifehouse, Los Lonely Boys, Jonas Brothers, Maroon 5, Rhianna
Famous Swimmers I'd Like To Meet: Michael Phelps, Dara Torres
Hero(s): My parents
Favorite Books: Emma, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bag of Bones, 3 Nights in August, Few and Chosen: Defining Cardinal Greatness Across the Eras, Marley and Me.
Personal Website: jbearsden.blogspot.com/
Favorite Websites: www.stlcardinals.com

Swimming World Date:Aug 20, 2008
Hi I'm Jenny, I live in St. Louis, Missouri.  I have been swimming my whole--more

Sanctuary Date:Aug 23, 2008
I am soo ready to get back in the pool!  Almost two weeks ago I had double--more

Friends: 6, 2 Degrees:0, 3 Degrees:0

Michael Phelps

Ian Crocker

Peter Vanderkaay

Natalie Coughlin

Garrett Weber-Gale

Donna