Jean Freeman (1950-2010) was an American

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

coach. She was the Women's Swimming Head Coach at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

for 31 years, from 1973 to 2004. Freeman was coach of Minnesota's women's Swimming team when the school's UM's women's athletics program started in 1975.
Gopher legend Jean Freeman passes away
'. Published by the Minnesota Athletics website (www.gophersports.com); published in 2010-10; retrieved 2014-04-07. She coached the Golden Gophers to two Big Ten titles (1999, 2000) and was named the Big Ten's Women's Coach of the Year four times. She was inducted in the

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's Hall of Fame in 2011.ASCA Hall of Fame
page from the ASCA website (www.swimmingcoach.org); retrieved 2014-04-07. On December 6, 2014, the University of Minnesota renamed its swimming and diving complex the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center. Freeman swam for Minnesota from 1968 to 1972, and graduated from the school in 1973.

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