A first year student at Booth is re-adjusting to life in Chicago as a student, rather than a world-traveling Olympic-class pole vaulter. Booth School of Business student and Forest Park native Jillian Schwartz was never leaps and bounds away from the Olympics. After making it to the 2004 Olympics in…
Lake Forest’s Jillian Schwartz failed in her attempt to qualify for the finals of the pole vault at the London Olympics Saturday. Schwartz, who was competing for the Israeli team thanks to her dual citizenship, missed three times at the 4.50 meter mark and was eliminated. She finished 18th overall…
LONDON — Jillian Schwartz is speaking, but I tell her to wait a moment, please. It’s hard to hear with that helicopter in the sky not far above us here in the Olympic Village. She smiles courteously, then picks up when the helicopter moves off slightly and the noise has…
Lake Forest’s Jillian Schwartz will be competing for the Israeli team in the 2012 London Olympics in track and field. Schwartz, who competed for the United States in the pole vault in 2004, will have her competition begin August 4, with the finals August 6. On August 4, Schwartz will compete in the preliminary round with…
Jillian Schwartz’s return to the Olympic Games Friday as a member of the Israeli team after competing for the United States in 2004 is a highlight of an unlikely journey. The 1997 Lake Forest High School alumna focused on being a professional athlete when she graduated from Duke University in 2001 knowing…
The 1997 Lake Forest High School Yearbook named Jillian Schwartz most likely to go to the Olympics. The editors of that publication were accurate prognosticators about this Wall of Fame Scoutbut few could have forecasted the 15-year journey that took her from the North Shore to her second Olympiad opening Friday in London.…
Athletics – Women’s Pole Vault; Schwartz will be Israel’s only representative in the athletics field events in London. Jillian Schwartz will be Israel’s only representative in the athletics field events in London and will be looking to add another achievement to the rich tradition of local pole vaulting. Two-time European…
Growing up outside of Chicago, Jillian Schwartz never expected that one day she would be an Israeli citizen. Now the hardest part of her immigrant experience is leaving Tel Aviv—with her roughly 17-feet-long Olympic equipment. “Trying to get out of here with poles is very difficult,” said Schwartz, a pole…
Jillian Schwartz says a special connection — and a little less competition — helped her join team Israel after previously competing for the USA There’s a special connection,” Jillian Schwartz said as she explained her decision to stop competing for team USA and switch to team Israel. On Sunday, Israel’s entire…
