UCLA's Title IX 40: Annette Salmeen, Keri Phebus
September 11, 2012 | Bruin Athletics
Sept. 11, 2012
Celebrating 40 Years of Title IX
UCLA Athletics continues its celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Title IX with a series of profiles of UCLA's Title IX 40. This group of 40 Bruin women were game-changers in the Title IX era. Next up are UCLA Hall of Famers Annette Salmeen and Keri Phebus.
Annette Salmeen, Swimming (1993-96)
Annette Salmeen was the quintessential UCLA student-athlete, earning the highest possible honors both in the pool and in the classroom. In 1996, she not only won a gold medal at the Olympic Games but was also named a Rhodes Scholar.
As a Bruin, Salmeen was a four-time All-American. As a senior in 1996, she became the first-ever UCLA women's swimmer to win an NCAA individual event (200m butterfly, 1:55.84). That season, she was the Pac-10 Champion in the 100m (54.59) and 200m butterfly (1:57.00) and was the UCLA Female Athlete of the Year, UCLA Alumni Association Outstanding Senior, and a finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year.
Her UCLA career marks in the 200m freestyle (1:47.52) and 200m butterfly (1:55.84) are all-time Top Eight Bruin performances and her 500m freestyle mark of 4:42.62 is still a school record.
On the international front, Salmeen earned a bronze medal in the 200m butterfly at the 1995 World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan, and the summer following her senior season, she won the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 200m butterfly and won a gold medal at the Olympics in the 800m freestyle relay.
Her collegiate academic honors included four-time Academic All-America plaudits, the NCAA Today's Top-Eight Award (presented annually for excellence in academics and athletics) and an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship.
Salmeen earned a UCLA undergraduate honors degree in chemistry (3.94 grade point average) and was named a Rhodes Scholar in 1997. Later, at Oxford University, she pursued a Doctorate of Philosophy in biochemistry and was also a member of that university's club team, setting three long-course and six short-course records.
After earning her doctorate in 2001, Salmeen returned to the U. S. as a post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford Medical School, conducting research in molecular pharmacology. In 2005, she was named to the board of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and currently serves on its Board of Directors.
Salmeen was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Keri Phebus, Tennis (1993-96)
Keri Phebus is the most decorated player in the history of UCLA women's tennis. A four-year All-American and two-time NCAA champion during her Bruin career, Phebus earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National Player of the Year award in 1995.
In 1995 at the NCAA Championships, Phoebus became the first Bruin to win the singles championship, defeating Texas' Kelly Pace, 6-2, 6-3, in the final. With teammate Susie Starrett, Phebus also won the doubles title, once again defeating Pace and Cristina Moros, 6-3, 6-3. At the time, Phebus became only the second woman in history to capture both NCAA crowns in the same season. Phebus ended the 1995 campaign with 31 consecutive singles victories.
Also in 1995, Phoebus and Starrett were the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor doubles champions, and Phebus oncluded her junior campaign by being named the UCLA Female Athlete of the Year, Tennis Magazine's Player of the Year and earning the Honda Award, as the nation's top collegiate women's tennis player. Her other ITA honors include the ITA Senior Player of the Year in 1996.
In 1994, as a sophomore, Phebus became the first-ever NCAA singles finalist from UCLA and only the second unseeded singles finalist in the tournament's 13-year history. As a freshman in 1993, she finished the year ranked No. 11 nationally and No. 2 regionally for singles, being the second-highest ranked freshman in the nation.
A four-time All-Pac-10 performer, Phebus was the Pac-10 singles champion and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1995. In 1996, she won the Pac-10 doubles title with teammate Paige Yaroshuk,.
Phebus has the most overall UCLA singles wins (144-29 record) in school history and the most wins at No. 1 singles (51). In 1995, she established a UCLA singles record for highest winning percentage (55-4, .932).
After her UCLA graduation, Phebus played on the pro tour for over two years and was ranked in the Top 100 in the world in singles play. She had a record of 54-53 in singles and 39-32 in doubles before retiring in 1998. She captured one International Tennis Federation (ITF) singles title and four ITF doubles championships.
In 2007, Phebus became the first Bruin women's tennis player inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Previous Title IX 40 Profiles
Karen Moe/Janet Coles
Terry Condon/Jan Palchikoff
Sue Enquist/Ann Meyers Drysdale
Evelyn Ashford/Anita Ortega
Carol Bower/Denise Corlett
Denise Curry/Sharon Shapiro
Jackie Joyner-Kersee/Dot Richardson
Florence Griffith-Joyner/Liz Masakayan
Kay Cockerill/Gail Devers
Kim Hamilton Anthony, Stella Sampras Webster
Natalie Williams, Lisa Fernandez