Mavis Anne Freeman (November 7, 1918 – October 1988) was an American competition swimmer who competed for the Women's Swimming Association of New York and represented the United States in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

Freeman was born on November 7, 1918 in Brooklyn, and attended New York's Port Washington High School where she valued scholarship and was a good student.

The WSA was managed and founded by Charlotte Epstein, and coached by Louis Handley, a former 1904 Olympic gold medalist, who oversaw Freeman's progress and assisted with lessons.

[2][3] By May, 1936, Freeman was a National Junior Champion in the 100-meter event, with a time of 1:02 set in 1935, and had captured the AAU Senior title for New York's Metropolitan District in the 220-yard distance.

[6] On August 14, 1936, at only 17, Freeman earned a bronze medal swimming the third leg as a member of the third-place U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with her teammates Katherine Rawls, Bernice Lapp and Olive McKean.