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Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Dianne Benko (born November 29, 1976), known by her married name Lindsay Mintenko since 2005, is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympian, former world record-holder, and a managing director of USA Swimming. She represented the United States women as a Team Captain at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, taking a gold medal in freestyle relays both years. She held the short-course world record in the 400-meter freestyle at 3:59.53, for nearly three years from January 2003 to December 2005.
After taking All-American honors swimming for the University of Southern California, where she led the team to their first NCAA National championship in 1997, she served as their Assistant Coach for five years. She was appointed to USA Swimming's National Team staff in 2006, and in 2017 became the first woman to hold the position of USA National Team Division Managing Director, which included management responsibilities over both the men's and women's U.S. Olympic swim teams.
Benko attended the Stanley Clark School in South Bend, Indiana, for her elementary education. Upon graduating from Stanley Clark, she attended Elkhart Central High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where she lettered in swimming all four years from 1991 through her graduation in 1995. Lindsay made her reputation dominating the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events, taking eight individual state championship titles in her four-year high school career.
Showing promise early, as only a freshman at Elkhart Central in the 13-14 age group, she was ranked first in the country for the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 26.90 and second in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 57.77 by United States Swimming. Not surprisingly, during her high school swimming career, she was an Indiana State champion in multiple years in the 100-yard freestyle and retained the record from 1993 to 2001. She simultaneously held the state record in the 200 freestyle in multiple years, retaining it for the ten-year period from 1991 to 2011.
At Elkhart, she was "the first swimmer in IHSAA history to sweep two individual events all four years while piling up All-American honors." Swimming for Elkhart Central in Elkhart, she captured the Indiana state title for the 100 free in November 1993, with a time of 50.02. Beginning her senior year in September 1994, Benko held six total state championships, which included a state title as a member of the 4x100 freestyle relay team for Elkhart Central. Lindsay earned All-American honors 10 times at Elkhart Central and received the 1995 Catherine Wolf Award for the outstanding female athlete in the Elkhart Community Schools.
At the University of Southern California from 1995 to 1999, Lindsay was a 21-time All-American swimmer for Hall of Fame Head Coach Mark Schubert. Schubert also served as a U.S. Olympic Coach from 1984 to 2008, during Lindsay's Olympic competition years in 2000 and 2004. During her college years, she won five individual national titles, with three in the 500-yard freestyle and two in the 200-yard backstroke, demonstrating her versatility in a stroke other than freestyle, where she consistently excelled. Many of her titles were in freestyle relays for USC.
More important than her individual accomplishments, in 1997 she was at the center of USC's only NCAA women's swimming and diving championship.
Graduating from USC in 1999, with a Bachelor's in Communications and a Minor in Business, she acquired the academic background that would soon launch her career in both swim coaching and sports management.
Lindsay Benko
Lindsay Dianne Benko (born November 29, 1976), known by her married name Lindsay Mintenko since 2005, is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympian, former world record-holder, and a managing director of USA Swimming. She represented the United States women as a Team Captain at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, taking a gold medal in freestyle relays both years. She held the short-course world record in the 400-meter freestyle at 3:59.53, for nearly three years from January 2003 to December 2005.
After taking All-American honors swimming for the University of Southern California, where she led the team to their first NCAA National championship in 1997, she served as their Assistant Coach for five years. She was appointed to USA Swimming's National Team staff in 2006, and in 2017 became the first woman to hold the position of USA National Team Division Managing Director, which included management responsibilities over both the men's and women's U.S. Olympic swim teams.
Benko attended the Stanley Clark School in South Bend, Indiana, for her elementary education. Upon graduating from Stanley Clark, she attended Elkhart Central High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where she lettered in swimming all four years from 1991 through her graduation in 1995. Lindsay made her reputation dominating the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events, taking eight individual state championship titles in her four-year high school career.
Showing promise early, as only a freshman at Elkhart Central in the 13-14 age group, she was ranked first in the country for the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 26.90 and second in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 57.77 by United States Swimming. Not surprisingly, during her high school swimming career, she was an Indiana State champion in multiple years in the 100-yard freestyle and retained the record from 1993 to 2001. She simultaneously held the state record in the 200 freestyle in multiple years, retaining it for the ten-year period from 1991 to 2011.
At Elkhart, she was "the first swimmer in IHSAA history to sweep two individual events all four years while piling up All-American honors." Swimming for Elkhart Central in Elkhart, she captured the Indiana state title for the 100 free in November 1993, with a time of 50.02. Beginning her senior year in September 1994, Benko held six total state championships, which included a state title as a member of the 4x100 freestyle relay team for Elkhart Central. Lindsay earned All-American honors 10 times at Elkhart Central and received the 1995 Catherine Wolf Award for the outstanding female athlete in the Elkhart Community Schools.
At the University of Southern California from 1995 to 1999, Lindsay was a 21-time All-American swimmer for Hall of Fame Head Coach Mark Schubert. Schubert also served as a U.S. Olympic Coach from 1984 to 2008, during Lindsay's Olympic competition years in 2000 and 2004. During her college years, she won five individual national titles, with three in the 500-yard freestyle and two in the 200-yard backstroke, demonstrating her versatility in a stroke other than freestyle, where she consistently excelled. Many of her titles were in freestyle relays for USC.
More important than her individual accomplishments, in 1997 she was at the center of USC's only NCAA women's swimming and diving championship.
Graduating from USC in 1999, with a Bachelor's in Communications and a Minor in Business, she acquired the academic background that would soon launch her career in both swim coaching and sports management.