Adriana Marmolejo


Adriana Rebeca Marmolejo Vargas is a 3-time Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Mexico. She swam at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, making her the first Mexican woman to swim at 3 Olympic Games. She has held the Mexican Records in the 50, 100 and 200 breaststrokes since 1998.
In January 2009, Marmolejo became an assistant coach with the men's and women's swimming teams at Arizona State University. After coaching in Phoenix, and later at Northwestern University, Marmolejo joined the coaching staff at the University of Chicago In October 2010.

Family

Adriana father's, Ricardo, and her brother Pablo have both been members of Mexico's national swimming team. Ricardo swam at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. Pablo swam at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and at the 2007 World Championships. At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy Pablo set the Mexico National Record in the 100 meter butterfly. A record once held father, Ricardo. In June 2011, Adriana married Kyle Schack of Huntington Woods, Michigan in Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico. She changed her name to Adriana Schack.

Swimming

Adriana has won 75 Mexican National titles over the course of her swimming career.
She swam collegiately for the USA's Texas A&M University.
On August 10, 1998, at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela, she set the Games Record in the women's 200m Breaststroke. She also bettered the mark at the 2006 CACs.
At the 2008 Olympics, Marmolejo swam a lifetime best time and bettered her Mexican Record in the 100 and 200m breaststroke.