11 Facts About Jillian Crooks

Jillian Janis Geohagan Crooks was born on 27 June 2006 and is a Caymanian competitive swimmer.

Jillian Crooks is the Cayman Islands record holder in the 50 metre butterfly and 100 metre freestyle.

Jillian Crooks competed in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics, placing 41st in the prelims heats.

Jillian Crooks has an older brother, Jordan Crooks, who is a competitive swimmer.

In 2022, Crooks committed to competing collegiately for the University of Tennessee swim team, the Tennessee Volunteers, starting in the autumn of 2024.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Tokyo, Japan, Jillian Crooks took 41st place in the 100 metre freestyle, not advancing to the semifinals with her Cayman Islands national record setting time of 57.32 seconds.

Jillian Crooks was the youngest competitor from the Cayman Islands at the 2020 Summer Olympics in any sport, as well as the youngest Olympian from the country across all previous editions of the modern Olympic Games her country competed at.

Jillian Crooks moved to Homer, Alaska for a few months, including competing for the high school swim team, because she had a family friend who was a coach there and wanted to test out swimming in the United States, and Alaska specifically, to see if she could win a few state titles and set a few state records in the country, which she successfully did.

Jillian Crooks won two state titles and set state records in the 100 freestyle and 200 freestyle events.

Jillian Crooks was one of two Olympians to compete at the 2021 Alaska State High School Championship, the other being Alaska-born-and-raised Olympic gold medalist Lydia Jacoby who won breaststroke and individual medley events.

At her first senior World Aquatics Championships, Jillian Crooks placed twenty-ninth in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 57.24 seconds on day five of swimming competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held in June at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary.