Athletes

Summer Sanders set an American record in the 400m individual medley at the 1992 Olympic Games and won more medals than any other U.S. swimmer that same year. Sanders won two gold medals (200m butterfly, 4x100 medley), a silver (200m individual medley) and a bronze (400m individual medley). She qualified for four individual events at the 1992 Olympic Team Trials, more than any other swimmer that year. Sanders was awarded the 1992 Babe Zaharias Award, which is given to the year's top amateur athlete. She won three gold medals at the 1990 Goodwill Games before embarking on her collegiate career at Stanford University and was the recipient of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Swimmer of the Year Award for two consecutive years while she was a student-athlete at Stanford (1992, 1991). Sanders retired from swimming in December 1993 to pursue a career as a television commentator. She has done color commentary for NBC and Lifetime Television and has worked for MTV. Sanders served as an on-site reporter for NBC at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and is currently host of a syndicated Olympic show, "U.S. Olympic Gold." She was also an on-air correspondent for NBA Sports at the Ford Gorge Games in Portland, Ore. in July 2002. Sanders has also hosted a children's game show on Nickelodeon and is in her sixth year as a co-host of "NBA Inside Stuff." (10/03)