Lizzy Bruce

Position:
Breast/IM
Height:
5-6
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Wichita, Kan.
High School:
Trinity Academy

Career Best Times: 1:03.60 in the 100-yard breaststroke; 2:19.65 in the 200-yard breaststroke; 1:12.33 in the 100-meter breaststroke; 2:37.26 in the 200-meter breaststroke.

General:
Swam this past summer in the U.S. Nationals…competed for the Wichita Swim Club coached by Eric Nelson...outstanding breaststroke recruit. Prep: Swam for Wichita Swim Club and all four years at Trinity Academy...graduated May 19, 2002...ran four years of high school cross country...Olympic Trial qualifier in both 2000 and 2004...Scholastic All-America sophomore through junior years...NISCA individual All-America freshman through senior seasons...four-time state champion in 100 breaststroke...also won 200 IM as a sophomore and 100 fly as a senior...swim group state record holder in 200 medley and state champ in 10th and 11th grade.

Personal:
Given name is Elizabeth Forbes Bruce...nicknamed “Lizzy”...has one brother and two sisters...parents are George and Pam Bruce...born March 23, 1984 in Wichita, Kansas...athlete she most admires is Josh Davis...biggest sports thrill is making Olympic Trials because “it was a huge milestone”...undecided on major...wants a career in medicine...her brother Michael is a junior on the swim team at Stanford.