Natasha Moodie

Who is Natasha Moodie?

Natasha Moodie is a Jamaican swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is a three-time national record holder and NCAA All-American champion, and is currently a member of the Michigan Wolverines Swimming Team, while studying kinesiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Moodie qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after winning the sprint freestyle event at the Toyota Grand Prix at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, with an Olympic standard time of 26.61 seconds. She swam in the eighth heat of the women's 50 m freestyle event, against five other competitors including Israel's Anya Gostomelsky and eighteen year-old Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace from the Bahamas, who both made an early lead in the pool. Moodie came only in fifth place by thirteen hundredths of a second, to Iceland's Ragnheidur Ragnarsdottir, with a record-breaking time of 25.95 seconds. Moodie, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-seventh out of ninety-two swimmers in the overall rankings.

At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Moodie matched her national record time of 25.95 seconds from the Olympics, in the 50 m freestyle event. She also achieved her personal best of 57.71 seconds for the 100 m freestyle. Both of her swimming events, however, were not sufficiently enough to pass the first round.