Robin Marie Corsiglia (born August 12, 1962), later known by her married name Robin Scholefield, is a former competitive

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

from Canada. She represented Canada as a 13 year old at the

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in Montreal, Quebec. Corsiglia won a bronze medal swimming the

breaststroke Breaststroke is a human swimming, swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and ...

leg of the women's 4x100-metre medley relay, together with her Canadian teammates Wendy Hogg (backstroke), Susan Sloan (butterfly), and Anne Jardin (freestyle). Individually, she also competed in the women's 100-metre breaststroke, finishing fourth in the event final. Corsiglia attended the

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, and swam for the

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swimming and diving team.USC OLYMPIANS: 1904-2008
, USC Trojans Athletic Department, Accessed August 26, 2008. She received her Phd in Clinical Psychology (1999) from the

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, Los Angeles and is a married mother of three and a sports psychologist at the University of Southern California - University Park Health Center in Los Angeles.
Golden memories of bronze medal,

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, Feb. 14, 2010

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