Staciana Stitts Winfield (born September 12, 1981), née Staciana Stitts, is an American former competition swimmer and breaststroke specialist. She is a 2000 Summer Olympics and 1999 Pan American Games gold medalist, and 1998 Goodwill Games silver medalist.
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Full name | Staciana Stitts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1981-09-12) September 12, 1981 (age 40) Columbus, Ohio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 146 lb (66 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Irvine Novaquatics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | University of California, Berkeley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stitts and her University of California, Berkeley teammates Haley Cope, Joscelin Yeo, and Praphalsai Minpraphal broke the 4×50-meter medley relay short-course world record in 2000 with a time of 1:49.23.
In 2004, she graduated from the University of California with a Bachelor of Arts degree. From 2005 to 2006, Stitts-Winfield worked at the College of Charleston as an assistant swimming coach.[1] In June 2006, Stitts-Winfield was named an assistant swimming coach at University of Southern California (USC).[2]
Stitts-Winfield states, "The life significance of losing my hair at age 12 from alopecia areata has made me a very strong, determined person."[3] She has been a motivational speaker at the National Alopecia Areata Foundation's Teens Conference Camp[4] and has been a spokesperson for the Children's Alopecia Project.[5]
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 for the University of Iowa. Brother Joseph Stitts swam for University of California, Davis.[6]
She married Brett Winfield.[7]
She has been a resident of Carlsbad, California[8] and Encinitas, California.[2]
2000 USA Olympic swimming team | ||
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Qualification |
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Pan American Champions in Women's 100 m breaststroke | |
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Pan American Champions in Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay | |
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