Terri Stickles

Personal information
Full name	Terri Lee Stickles
National team	United States
Born	(1946-05-11) May 11, 1946 (age 78) San Mateo, California
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	150 lb (68 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Santa Clara Swim Club
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the United States Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo 400 m freestyle Pan American Games 1963 São Paulo 100 m freestyle 1963 São Paulo 200 m freestyle

Terri Lee Stickles (born May 11, 1946) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. She received a bronze medal for her third-place finish in the women's 400-meter freestyle event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[1]

She was a member of the Santa Clara Swim Club, notable for producing Olympic swimmers such as Donna de Varona and Mark Spitz.^[2] She trained with swimming coach George Haines, who was noted for training future Olympic medalists during the 1960s and 1970s.^[3][4]

Her brother, Ted Stickles, was also a competition swimmer, set world records in the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley events.^[5]

Stickles was married to Olympic long-distance runner Álvaro Mejía. They met in Cali, Colombia, where she was a Peace Corps volunteer. Stickles brought Mejía to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1969. They subsequently divorced.

She is now retired and living in Calaveras County, California. She is a fused glass artist.

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay

• Terri Lee Stickles at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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