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Kelly Anne McCormick (born February 13, 1960, in Anaheim, California) is a retired Hall of Fame female diver from the United States. She dove for Ohio State University and twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics, winning a silver (1984) and a bronze medal (1988) in the Women's 3m Springboard event.
On June 26, 2008, Wilkinson qualified as a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Diving Team in diving by taking first place in the trials. She ultimately placed 9th in the Women’s 10m platform final. She announced her retirement and this Olympics would be her final competition.
She was named to the United States diving team for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships 2011 World Aquatics Championships held in Rome and Shanghai, respectively. Viola was named Captain of the U.S. Diving Team for the 2009 event. [2] Viola's Olympic dreams began when she watched the Magnificent Seven U.S. Gymnastics Team win gold in Atlanta ...
Day one of the U.S. Olympic Diving Trials has ended, Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook will represent team USA in the 3-meter ... They finished with a score of 629.82 to win the women’s synchronized ...
Potter was a member of the 1968, 1972 and 1976 U.S. Olympic diving teams. She was selected to the 1980 U.S. Olympic diving team, but due to the U.S. boycott of the games that year, Potter was unable to compete. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead. [3]
She was the dominant figure in women's diving in the United States from 1965 to 1972, winning 10 national championships, including both springboard and platform events. At the 1968 Summer Olympics , she was in first place in the three meter springboard event when she broke her left arm on the ninth dive; she completed the tenth dive, but ...
Bacon, 27, was competing in her first Olympics, while Cook represented the U.S. in Rio 2016 and placed 13th in the women’s springboard diving competition. Both Cook and Bacon were in tears at ...
Despite not finishing first in either springboard or platform events of the Olympic trials in Detroit, Draves made the team. [10] On August 3, 1948, she won her first springboard title in the London Summer Olympics. [11] Draves followed up that win with the gold medal in the 10-meter platform on Aug. 6, becoming the first woman to win both titles.