Jessica Adele Hardy is an American swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke and freestyle stroke. She currently holds the world record in the 50 m breaststroke and the 100 m breaststroke.When Jessica swam at the 2004 Olympic Trials at age 17, it was one of her first times at a national meet. Hardy finished fifth in a stacked 100m breaststroke field, a result with which she was happy, having quit all of her other sports to focus on swimming exclusively only one year before.

Less than a year later, while still a high school senior and a rookie on the US National Team, she set a World Record in the 100m breaststroke at the 2005 World Championships, thus becoming the first American woman to hold that record in over 20 years. She then went on to compete at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a four-time NCAA Champion and set three American Records.

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