Jackie LaVine

Jacqueline Carol LaVine (October 4, 1929 – October 21, 2022) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.

Jacqueline Carol LaVine was born into a family with nine other siblings on October 4, 1929 in Evergreen Park, in Maywood, Illinois to John and Laura (Snyder) LaVine. She learned to swim at 5, and began to receive formal training at 16 at Chicago's Town Club Swimming team. She attended Morgan Park High School, and though she had started as a diver, she switched to swimming after a diving injury. Training under the Town Club's Head Coach Walter Schlueter, she quickly gained recognition as a talented sprinter, excelling in short and mid-range freestyle swimming events. Achieving early, in 1946 she placed second in the Junior Central AAU 50-yard swim, and captured a first at the Junior Central AAU 220-yard swim.

1951 Pan Am Games LaVine won her first medal in international competition, a gold, at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay which included teammates Carolyn Green, Betty Mullen and Sharon Geary.

LaVine represented the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

LaVine died on October 21, 2022, at the age of 93.