Kristine Quance-Julian (2015) - USC Athletics Hall of Fame

Kristine Quance-Julian

Induction:
2015
Class:
1997

Kristine Quance-Julian won more NCAA titles—nine—than any women’s swimmer in USC history. Her NCAA hardware came in the 400-yard individual medley (1994-96-97), 200-yard IM (1994-96), 200-yard breaststroke (1996-97), 100-yard breast (1994) and 800-yard freestyle relay (1994). She also set nine school records during her four-year (1994-97) career and helped the Women of Troy to its first-ever NCAA championship as a senior in 1997. Following her junior year, she won a gold medal as part of the U.S. 400-meter medley relay team at the 1996 Olympics. She twice (1996-97) won the Honda Award as the nation’s top collegiate women’s swimmer and was named the American Swimmer of the Year in 1997. She was a 10-time U.S. national champion. In 2016, she was named to the Pac-12 All-Century team. She received an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 1994. She then coached swimming at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena and with the Mission Viejo Nadadores along with her husband, Jeff Julian, a former Trojan swimmer (she also spent time on the UCLA women’s staff).