Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley co-founded Swimmers for Change.
Powered by over 30 US Olympic, Paralympic and National Team swimmers to raise awareness and funds for charities supporting anti-racism and racial equity.
Swimming
I once said at the age of nine that I wanted to make the 2012 Olympics and be the first African American and Chinese swimmer to win an Olympic Gold Medal, setting some pretty high expectations for myself.
But I ended up meeting most of those goals when I made my first Olympic team in London 2012 -- winning a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay, becoming the first African American woman to swim in an Olympic Final. Four years later, I won a silver medal in the same event in the Rio 2016 Olympics becoming the first African American woman to swim in multiple Olympic games.
