Sarah Josephson

Sarah Josephson was born January 10, 1964, in Bristol, Connecticut. She and her sister Karen began competing by the age of six with local clubs, and first trained in synchronized swimming at Bristol's Girl's Club, Sarah graduated Hamden High around 1981. Competing for the Spindrifts, Sarah and her sister Karen won a gold medal at the National AAU Junior Olympics in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 12, 1979. == Ohio State University ==

Sarah and Karen enrolled at Ohio State University in the fall of 1981 and competed on the synchronized swimming team under head coach Mary Jo Ruggieri from 1982 to 1985. During her time at Ohio State, Sarah earned All-American honors four times and studied genetics, graduating with honors in 1985 with a 3.5 grade point average. Ruggieri coached the Ohio State team from 1970 to 1995, during which the program won 17 of the 19 collegiate national championships in which it competed. Sarah and Karen were members of teams that won national championships during their tenure at the university. Beginning around 1979, Sarah and Karen spent twelve years on the U.S. National Synchronized swimming team. After graduating college in 1985, the sisters moved to Walnut Creek, California to train with Gail Emery and the U.S. National Team. After college, they swam for a period with Emery's Walnut Creek Aquanuts team in Walnut Creek. ==Olympics 1984-1992==

Sarah Josephson competed in the women's solo event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She partnered with her twin sister Karen Josephson to win a silver medal in the women's duet at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and then a gold medal in the same event with at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Sarah and, and her sister Karen were American Synchronized Swimming Champions in Duet competition seven times. Sarah and Karen retired from elite synchronized swimming not long after the 1992 Olympics. Sarah and Karen were AAU Sullivan Award finalists, and became members of Connecticut's Bristol Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. ==See also==