Jessica Foschi

Jessica Foschi (born 1980) is an American former competition swimmer.

Foschi is from Old Brookville, New York, and started swimming competitively as a child. By the age of 12 she was setting regional age group records. She attended Friends Academy and Stanford University. She was a member of several national teams, a National Open Water Champion, an Olympic Trial finalist, an NCAA Champion, and was an All-American fifteen times.

She was most widely known for testing positive for steroids during the 1995 national championships in Pasadena, California, which led to an international ban from competition. The United States eventually reduced the ban and allowed her into the 1996 Olympic trials, but she did not qualify. Foschi denied ever taking steroids. In November 1995 a three-member United States Swimming panel, by a vote of 2-1, found that Foschi was either given the steroid without her knowledge or that she was the victim of sabotage, perhaps in a spiked sports drink, but still suspended her for two years.[1]