UW Athletic Hall of Fame

Peggy Anderson

  • Class
  • Induction
    2003
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Swimming & Diving
Peggy Anderson
  • Won the 1976 NCAA championship in the three-meter dive and finished second in the 1974 national meet
  • Earned All-America status four times (1974-77)
  • Big Ten champion in the three-meter dive in both 1976 and 1977
  • Served as an alternated on the 1976 United States Olympic team
  • One of the first female student-athletes at UW-Madison to receive a scholarship
  • Four time co-captain of UW women's swimming and diving team
  • Competed for the 1976 U.S. diving team that toured Sweden, Italy, Austria and Spain
  • Finished second at the 1977 European Championships and third at the 1977 Mexicana Games
  • Inducted into the Wisconsin Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame in 1988
  • Invited by the U.S. Embassy in 1978 to coach a diving team in Caracas, Venezuela
Peggy Anderson
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