Editor’s Note: Nancy Hogsgead is No. 8 on the Times-Union’s Top 100 list of athletes from the Jacksonville area.
The way Nancy Hogshead-Makar planned it, this summer was supposed to include a trip to Paris to soak in the sights and sounds some 40 years after her Olympic triumph.
So why didn’t it happen?
Because for this Jacksonville Olympic legend, the workload of pursuing her new sports goals off the field are nearly as consuming as the training that made her a triple champion in the pool.
Northeast Florida’s most decorated female Olympian, and standing at No. 8 in the Times-Union Jax Greatest 100 series, Hogshead-Makar is long retired from her competitive career in the pool but still keeping up her decades-long campaign for women in sports.
A world-leading swimmer while at Episcopal High School (now Episcopal School of Jacksonville), and still a First Coast resident, Hogshead-Makar is the head of Champion Women , an organization with a mission to advocate for girls and women in sports.