As an amateur competitive swimmer, it’s not every day someone in the lap lane next to me makes an Olympic podium. - Swim Swam
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VIDEO: Friday night, Olympic swimmer Lia Neal paid a visit to the Bed-Stuy Piranhas, the young swimming team of the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA, to share a few swimming tips and her personal journey of what it takes to be a champion inside and outside of the pool. - Patch.com
Lia Neal became only the second African-American woman to make a U.S. Olympic swim team when she qualified for the 2012 London Games. Neal, 17, hails from Brooklyn, New York, and started swimming at the age of six. - theGrio.com
Lia Neal shares her Olympic experience after winning a Bronze medal. - Verizon
Lia Neal and filmmaker Spike Lee at a New York Knicks game.
I went into the Olympic Trials knowing that the top six finishers in the 100 and 200 freestyles make the team. All I had wanted was to slip into that sixth place spot and make the team. - SwimJim
Against the backdrop of an Olympic year, the American women won gold at the FINA World Short Course Championships for the first time since 2004. - Swimnews.com
From left to right: Team USA's Lia Neal (52.44), Jessica Hardy (53.32), Megan Romano (52.86) and Allison Schmitt (52.39) won gold in the Women’s 400 free relay at the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships
The 2012 Golden Goggles Awards in NYC- @SwimmingWorld
Lia Neal, one of two American Olympians in this high school class of 2013, has chosen Stanford for her collegiate education and training ground. - Swim Swam
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The recruiting trips of Missy Franklin have been under a tight telescope this fall, but her fellow class of 2013 Olympian Lia Neal has flown relatively under-the-radar, but she begins her official trips this weekend in Southern California with Dave Salo’s USC Trojans. - Swim Swam
Bronze Medalist Lia Neal Receives Warm Welcome Home - WWD
- Jessica Hardy
- Kara Lynn Joyce
VIDEO: Lia Neal gets a little fashion fun in before the start of her post-Olympics training. She checked out Christian Sirjano, Sun Jung Wan and other designers. - New York Post
Video: Lia Neal’s Homecoming Inspires Campers - New York Post