Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

It took Leigh Lincoln only until her sophomore year in college to become the first woman in IUP swimming history to advance to the NCAA Division II national championship meet.
Once there (in 1982-83), all the way to Long Beach.  California, she competed in the 200 and 400 yard individual medleys and the 200 yard backstroke.
She qualified by setting IUP team records at that year's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference meet, swimming the 200 in 2: 17.79 (seven seconds off today's record), the 400 in 4:52.22.
The records she broke were her own, set as a freshman, when she became an All-American for the first time, in the 400, as she competed for Coach Kofie Montgomery and assistants Lois Clark and Jan Murtha.
Her coaches, looking back today, describe the four-year letter winner as ''the kind of swimmer to build a program around." Besides the medleys and backstroke, she also swam the butterfly.
At the PSAC meet her junior year, Lincoln finished in point-producing ranks in five different events, as high as third, and swam with a relay team that placed fourth.
In other words, Lincoln proved a foundation for a team that was later to establish itself as one of the best in the country and ultimately become the only one other than Clarion ever to win the PSAC team championship.
For two seasons, Lincoln was joined on the IUP swim roster by two-years-younger sister Amy, an accomplished competitor in her own right.
Awarded the Sally B. Johnson Memorial Scholarship accorded each year to IUP's most outstanding junior in women's sports, the criminology major first entered that field after graduating.
Having moved to Connecticut, she joined the Brookfield police department (in which fiance William Smith is now a major). A year later, however, she went into sales and worked as marina manager for the Brookfield Bay Marina.
1990 saw her move into her present career field, becoming a sales representative first for Lindstedt Oil in New Milford, Connecticut, and then for Witco, in Greenwich.
Then, in 1996, she joined CITGO Petroleum as a product line and territory sales manager and certified lubricant specialist.  She is chairperson and education program coordinator of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Connecticut chapter and a member of the American Petroleum Institute.