2005
Hee-Jin Chang During her time at Andover, Hee-Jin Chang won considerable recognition for swimming, achieving All-American status in seven events as well as helping lead the team to its fourth straight New England championship in 2005. She holds the New England Prep record in the 50-yard freestyle and school records for the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events (23.19 and 50.57 seconds, respectively). After Andover, Chang studied at the University of Texas, where she joined the varsity swim team. In 2008, her former Andover coach, Paul Murphy ’84, received a message from Chang saying 4
that she had made the South Korean Olympic team and would be traveling to Beijing for the Summer Olympics. This would be Chang’s second time competing in the Olympics; she had also competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics for South Korea, her native country. Upon returning from Beijing, she told Murphy, “I swam my best times and broke the national record in the 50 [meter freestyle]. It would have been more exciting if my best got me into the top 16 [qualifiers], but I’ll live.” During her senior year at the University of Texas, she won a Big 12 championship
title in the 50-yard freestyle and also broke the Big 12 record. She graduated in 2009 with a BA degree in political science and later earned an MA degree in public policy from Georgetown. Chang is currently completing law school at the University of Houston while working at Foster LLP, a distinguished law firm with a focus on global immigration.