{"id":49696,"date":"2014-02-11T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/?p=49696"},"modified":"2014-02-11T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:10:12","slug":"stanford-olympian-lia-neal-interviewed-by-first-grader-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/stanford-olympian-lia-neal-interviewed-by-first-grader-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Olympian Lia Neal Interviewed By First-Grader London"},"content":{"rendered":"

STANFORD, California, February 11. LIA Neal knows London. She was a bronze medalist on the United States\u2019 4×100-meter freestyle relay team at the 2012 London Olympics, after all.<\/p>\n

Lia Neal knows interviews. It comes with the territory of being an Olympic medalist before taking your first college course.<\/p>\n

But Sunday morning, Neal had a different London interview experience than she is used to.<\/p>\n

Neal was interviewed by London, a first-grader at St. Philips School and Community Center in Dallas, Texas. The seven-year old London chose the freshman Neal for her class project on young, gifted African-Americans who are history makers of today.<\/p>\n

After London\u2019s parents approached Stanford about setting up the two for a virtual meeting, it was a no-brainer for Neal.<\/p>\n

Below, watch London and Neal go through a brief introduction (that the rest of family and friends made sure to get in) before going into the interview around the five-minute mark.<\/p>\n