Mirjana Boševska

Mirjana Boševska (born June 25, 1981, in Skopje) is a retired female freestyle and medley swimmer from Macedonia, who competed for the University of Virginia, and became the first woman to represent Macedonia at the Olympics, competing for her country in the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney games.

Boševska was born June 25, 1981, in Skopje, North Macedonia and attended Trinity High School in Orlando, Florida, graduating around 1998. From 1995 to 1996, during her Sophomore year at Trinity, she was trained by ASCA Hall of Fame Coach Bill Peak who coached her at the Trinity Aquatic Club. Skilled in training elite stroke competitors, Peak had formerly coached 1984 Olympic triple gold butterfly medalist Mary T. Meagher for five years during her youth at Lakeside Swim Club, and later helped prepare her for the 2008 Olympics. Benefitting from her training at Trinity Aquatics, at 14 at the Charlotte Ultra Swim in June 1996, Boševska won the 400 Individual Medley, placed second in the 800 freestyle, placed second in the mile, third in the 200 Individual Medley, fourth in the 400 freestyle, ninth in the 200 butterfly, and tenth in the 200 freestyle. She was the meet's leading point scorer, and as a high achieving multi-stroke competitor, outperformed American Olympians Trina Jackson, Brook Bennett, Catherine Fox and Jenny Thompson. Her one-mile swim time of 16:43.89, was the world's fourth fastest behind elite American Olympic swimmers Brooke Bennett, Janet Evans, and Australia's Haley Lewis.

Olympics She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics.

Honors As a Virginia Senior in 2002, Boševska was honored as an Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Swimmer of the Year, with her Coach Mark Bernardino again being honored as the ACC men's Coach of the Year.