![]() Lake Kwaza in Altenberg in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National team | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sycamore, Illinois | November 7, 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bobsled | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lake Kwaza (born 7 November 1993) is an American bobsledder and sprinter.[1][2]
Kwaza was recruited to the American bobsled team in 2017. She competed in track and field as a sprinter at The University of Iowa from 2012 to 2016 and competed in Olympic trials for the United States in 2016 in the 200m.[3][4]
During the 2018–19 Bobsleigh World Cup she was paired with three-time Olympic medallist Elana Meyers acting as the brakewoman of a two-women bobsled.[5] Her best performance to date was a gold medal finish at the 2019 Lake Placid event. She took part in the 2019 World Championships in the two-women event but did not finish having completed only four of the five required runs.[6]
She joined the United States Army in 2019 as part of their World Class Athlete Program with the aim of qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics.[7]
Lake is currently dating USA Olympic bobsledder Hakeem Abdul-Saboor.