Salmeen To Be Inducted Into UCLA Athletics Hall Of Fame

LOS ANGELES, California, October 4. ANNETTE Salmeen, a 1996 NCAA Champion for UCLA, will be inducted into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday. The invitation-only ceremony will be held in the Hall of Fame at the J.D. Morgan Intercollegiate Athletics Center and in the Covel Commens. Additionally, the inductees will be honored at the UCLA-Arizona football game on Saturday at the Rose Bowl.

The epitome of a student-athlete, Salmeen was a four-year All-American swimmer (1993-94-95-96), a four-year Academic All-American and the first UCLA women's swimmer to capture an NCAA individual title when she won the 200 butterfly in 1996 in 1:55:84. During that magical senior campaign in 1996, Salmeen won two Pac-10 titles in 100 and 200 butterfly and was named UCLA Female Athlete of the Year and Alumni Association Outstanding Senior. She also received the NCAA Top VIII Award, presented to only eight NCAA student-athletes annually for excellence in academics and athletics.

In addition, Salmeen was a NCAA Woman of the Year finalist, received a NCAA post-graduate scholarship and named a Rhodes Scholar (UCLA's eighth student ever and first since 1973). During her Bruin career, she was a two-time team MVP, named the team's hardest worker on three occasions, voted most inspirational twice and graduated with UCLA records in 200 butterfly, 200 free and 500 free. Salmeen went on make the 1996 US Olympic team and captured a gold medal as a member of the 800 freestyle relay team. Individually, she finished 12th in the 200 butterfly in the Olympics.

Salmeen graduated from UCLA with honors in chemistry (3.94 GPA) in 1997 and completed her Doctorate of Philosophy degree in biochemistry as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2001. She is currently conducting post doctoral research in molecular pharmacology at Stanford University Medical School.

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