Staciana Stitts

Staciana Stitts

Staciana Stitts (born September 12, 1981 in Columbus, Ohio) is a breaststroke swimmer from the United States, who won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was also a member of the USA national team at the 1998 Goodwill Games in New York, placing second in the 100m breast and was on the gold medal winning 400 medley relay on the breaststroke leg.

A resident of Carlsbad, California [ [http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=16] ] and Encinitas, California, [http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en&ItemId=1114&mid=45] ] Stitts became only the second woman swimmer of the University of California, Berkeley to earn a gold medal in the Olympic Games, swimming in the prelims for the United States' 400m medley relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She qualified for the Sydney Olympics after placing second in the 100m breaststroke (1:07.79) at the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis.

In 2004, she graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA degree. From 2005-2006, Stitts-Winfield was an assistant coach at the College of Charleston. [ [http://www.collegeswimming.com/news/2005/jul/21/staciana-winfield-formerly-stitts-named-college-of/] ] June 2006, Stitts-Winfield was named an assistant swimming coach at USC .

Stitts-Winfield states, "The life significance of losing my hair at age 12 from alopecia areata has made me a very strong, determined person." [ [http://swimming.about.com/cs/famousswimmers/a/Stitts_10_Q.htm] ] She's been a motivational speaker at the National Alopecia Areata Foundation's Teens Conference Camp [ [http://www.naaf.org/kids/story.asp?ID=5] ] and has been a spokesperson for the Children's Alopecia Project [ [http://childrensalopeciaproject.blogspot.com/2006/02/someone-to-look-up-to.html] ] . Now Staciana Stitts is a coach at the Buckley School.

Family

Stitt's parents, who reside in Encinitas, California are both high school teachers at Carlsbad High School, and she has two brothers, and a sister, Alicia who swam at the University of Iowa.

She married Brett Winfield [ [http://www.netitor.com/photos/confs/pac10/usc/sport/w-swim/auto_pdf/07-media-guide3.pdf] ] .

References

* [http://calbears.cstv.com/sports/w-swim/mtt/stitts_staciana00.html Profile of Staciana Stitts]


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