Whitney Lynn Hedgepeth (born March 19, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer who won a gold and two silver medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

[1] She reached the Olympic level as a swimmer for the Virginia Association for Competitive Swimming (VACS) under coach Dudley Duncan.

[3] As a Texas Longhorn swimmer, she won three more NCAA national championships and received another twenty All-American honors, for a career total of twenty-seven.

[3] She competed in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1988 Summer Olympics[4] in Seoul, South Korea, finishing eighth in the final.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Hedgepeth won individual silver medals in the 100-meter backstroke[5] and 200-meter backstroke events,[6] and a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. relay team in the women's 4×100-meter medley relay event.