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From 1990 to 1994, King was the president of US Diving, the governing body for US divers, and attended the 1992 Summer Olympics in that capacity. [8] At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, King was again the Olympic team leader for US divers; [ 8 ] she sequestered the team for intensive training at the University of Kentucky facilities before ...
Team USA diver Alison Gibson is leaving the Paris Olympics with some bruised feet — but with her pride still intact.. Gibson, 25, shocked the crowd at the women’s 3-meter springboard ...
Team USA diver Alison Gibson is ready to talk about her 2024 Paris Olympics experience after making quite the splash. “My feet were bleeding. My heels were painfully bruised from hitting the ...
Laura Ann Wilkinson (born November 17, 1977, in Houston, Texas) is an American diver, three-time Olympian, and Olympic gold medalist. She is the first woman to win the three major diving world titles. [1] Wilkinson retired in 2008. After nine years of retirement, she returned to competition in 2017 and placed second at Nationals.
Victoria Manalo Draves (née Manalo; December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was a Filipino American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. [3] Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. [4]
Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 – March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis .
Vazquez competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games representing Team Mexico and became the first female Olympic diver in UNC history. She finished sixth in the finals in the women’s 3-meter ...
Katrina Young (born January 10, 1992) is an American diver. She competed for the United States in the women's 10-meter diving at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and in the 10-meter platform contest at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. [1]