Noelle Bassi

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Medal record
Noelle Bassi
Women's Swimming
Competitor for the United States
Pan American Games
Silver	2003 Santo Domingo	200m Butterfly

Noelle Bassi (born December 1, 1983) is a female butterfly swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the women's 200m butterfly event at the 2003 Pan American Games. She is best known for her 2004 National Champion title in the 200m butterfly, and her placement on the top 25 world/top 10 U.S. rankings lists for six consecutive years. Bassi is also a three-time Olympic Trial Qualifier (2000, 2004, 2008), and a 2004 Olympic Trial Finalist for the U.S. team. During her tenure at Harvard University, she served as Captain of the Varsity Swimming and Diving team and broke two school records. In 2006, she was the Ivy League Championship Swimmer of the Meet and in 2007 broke the Ivy League record in the 100m butterfly. She is a multiple time NCAA Division I All-American and Academic All-American. She is a native of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. She currently lives in Dallas, Texas and plans to wed high school sweetheart Justin Smith, a former Mercersburg Academy swimming teammate, at the end of 2008.^[1]

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^ Mattura, Greg. "Swimming to glory", The Record (Bergen County), October 31, 2002. Accessed March 16, 2008. "Noelle Bassi and her twin sister were given their first swimming lesson at age 2 1/2, courtesy of their mother, who was leery of the potential dangers of an in-ground pool in their new Franklin Lakes home."