Wendy Weinberg

Wendy Weinberg Weil
Personal information
National teamUnited States
BornWendy Beth Weinberg
(1958-06-27) June 27, 1958
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Weight126 lb (57 kg)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubHomewood Aquatics Club
College teamUniversity of Virginia
University of North Carolina
CoachFrank Comfort
Homewood Aquatic, UNC
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal 800 m freestyle
Pan American Games
1975 Mexico City 800 m freestyle
Summer Universiade
1977 Sofia 400 m freestyle
Maccabiah Games
1973 Ramat Gan 800 m freestyle
1977 Ramat Gan 200 m butterfly
1977 Ramat Gan 200 m freestyle
1977 Ramat Gan 4×100 m medley
1977 Ramat Gan 100 m freestyle

Wendy Beth Weinberg Weil (née Weinberg; born June 27, 1958) is an American former competition swimmer for the University of Virginia who was a medalist at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and both the Pan American, and Maccabiah Games. She earned a physical therapist's certificate from Emory University and as Wendy Weil began a practice as a physical therapist in the McClean, Virginia area around 1982.

Wendy Weinberg was born on June 27, 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Friends School of Baltimore, graduating in June of 1976, shortly before attending the Montreal Olympics. Weil began swim training at the age of nine, but switched to a team coached by Frank Comfort at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University where she would train full time with Comfort by the age of 14. During her High School years through the mid-1970's, she swam for winning coach Comfort's Homewood AAU Swim Club which met at Johns Hopkins, and would later swim with Comfort at the University of North Carolina.