Kristy Kowal

Kristina ("Kristy") Ann Kowal (born on October 9, 1978 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is a swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Kowal helped her college, the University of Georgia (UGA), to three NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. In 2000, she was named NCAA Woman of the Year and she was recipient of the Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the Class of 2001, which honors eight senior student-athletes each year. She graduated from UGA in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Education (B.S.Ed). She was a 1996 graduate of Wilson High School, located in West Lawn, PA. Wilson has produced three other notable athletes Kerry Collins (NFL) and John Gilmore (NFL), both of whom played in the Super Bowl, and Chad Henne (NFL), a quarterback chosen by the Miami Dolphins in the 2nd round of the 2008 NFL draft.

Kowal became a member of the United States Swimming Team in 1995. She is now an elementary teacher at her alma-mater, Wilson school district, in West Lawn, Pennsylvania.(2007)