She's 13, lives in Brooklyn, wants to be compared with "Sippy" Woodhead and at 12-years old she qualified for the 2008 Olympic trials.

The New York Times has a profile on an extraordinary swimmer named Lia Neal.

Lia Neal: "...Neal stands out, anyway, because of her deft strokes and her dark skin. The youngest child of an African-American father and an Asian mother, she has been compared to another biracial prodigy who blossomed in a mostly white sport. The connection to Tiger Woods is perhaps inevitable, but Neal prefers being mentioned in the same breath as Cynthia ['Sippy'] Woodhead, a swimmer in the 1970s who, like Neal, qualified for the Olympic trials in the freestyle as a 12-year-old.

“I think I’ve heard of her,” Neal, her hair in braids and her eyes sparkling, said with a shy smile last week. She waded demurely into an interview at Asphalt Green, an Upper East Side athletic complex, before diving into a 10,000-yard workout. ..." [Link]

Here is a link to her team website: [Link]