Emily Lesueur

Emily LeSueur (born November 7, 1972) is an American competitor in synchronized swimming and was a 1996 Atlanta Olympic champion.

Early life LeSueur tried several sports, starting out as a dancer, and as a youth started in a Mesa Parks Swim program. Because of her love of both swimming and the water, she decided on synchronized swimming. She first took up the sport at age 12, around 1984 in Mesa, Arizona, where she grew up. She attended Carson Junior High and swam for Mesa's Westwood High School. From around 1985-1994, she performed with the Arizona Stars, known as the Arizona Aqua Stars.

Pre-Olympic competition Prior to the 1996 Olympics, she was a US Olympic Festival team champion, a US Collegiate solo champion, a French Open team champion, and a US Collegiate solo silver medalist.

1996 Atlanta Olympics She competed with the American team of ten at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, receiving a gold medal in synchronized team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Since 1973 the top finishers had always been America, followed by Canada, and then Japan, and that was the order of finish in Atlanta in 1996.

In 1993 she married dermatologist Ben LeSueur, who also attended Arizona State, and after medical school would practice in Phoenix, Arizona. The couple raised five children.