Viola Cady Krahn of Laguna Woods received the honor for a swimming career spanning more than 80 years. She holds 17 masters world diving titles. Krahn's love affair with water began in 1919 after her family moved to Los Angeles from Arizona. She won junior national diving championships between 1922 and 1924.

“I almost dropped out of college,” Coben said. “My sister called me, and she was like, ‘What are you doing? That's pretty stupid.' She convinced me to stay in college. It's pretty amazing, because she was only 11 years old.”....Kids say the darndest things, and so do our elder statesmen. Coben's coach at the time, the legendary Dick Kimball, told him “to get his head out of his ass.”

Judge: POSTED: 5:01 p.m. EST January 20, 2004 RALEIGH, N.C. -- An immigration judge ruled Tuesday that a former North Carolina State diving coach [John Candler] can stay in the country.... Despite the judge's decision, the government can appeal.

Diving Canada is pleased to announce that because of its ability to secure special junior development funding from Sport Canada, ten young divers will be able to attend the upcoming World Cup in Athens. The World Cup represents the final qualification event for countries trying to qualify positions for the 2004 summer Olympics. It is expected that the best of the best will be competing at the World Cup. "The chance to witness workouts and competition performances of the world's best divers in the Olympic pool is an opportunity of a lifetime for our best age group divers. Their understanding, approach and commitment to the sport will be profoundly affected.", more

James E. "Doc" Counsilman, who coached Indiana to six NCAA swimming championships while introducing several innovations to the sport, is dead at 83. In college, he swam at Ohio State, where one of his teammates was Indiana's longtime diving coach, Hobie Billingsley

Yu Fen, one of the heroes behind China's long-time success in diving, suggests the current ailing national team might be headed the wrong way in trying to recapture past glory. While reluctant to read too much into the team's less-than-expected performance at the just-concluded World Cup in Athens where they won five gold medals, Yu, coach of quadruple Olympic gold medallist Fu Mingxia, thinks it's high time the squad found a common training goal. ... Coming off a four-month isolated training camp, the Chinese divers still didn't show decisive improvement.

Sponsored by international big-name enterprises Nokia and Ford,the inaugural Champions Diving Tour plans to stage three legs thisyear: .....Li said, as the first diving event of the kind set by CSA, Champions Tour will award each gold medalist 15,000 RMB as the prize money.

"I think Leon and Peter have gone to China to shake the tree up by trying to beat China in their own backyard," said Steve Foley, the Great Britain National Diving Performance Director. "They are both serious gold-medal threats."

Diving coach Jeff Shaffer was named the NCAA Diving Coach of the Year.
Garcia was named Diver of the Year for his efforts.
The trio of Bricker, Garcia and Segerlin became the first three divers to score at the same meet in Auburn history. In the three days, the Tiger divers scored 93 points in three events.

Springing back to the top (good photo)

The NJSIAA Swimming Championships were held over the weekend of March 6-7. The NJSIAA Diving Championships were held the previous Thursday. The Tri-County Conference held its diving championship before the swimming events, as did the South Jersey Swim League. See the trend. These facts give legitimacy to the question: Why is diving part of a regular swim meet? more

The Chinese diving team, once so strong that others even did not imagine to beat them, gave the Chinese fans a touch of panic as they lost all the men's titles except the 1m springboard as well as women's platform gold at the World Championships last year in Barcelona, which was called by the Chinese Youth newspaper "Waterloo for Chinese diving". .... What should they do?

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Men's Tower

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Women's Tower

Dick Kimball celebrated his 69th birthday. In the morning, he rollerbladed for an hour and a half. He spotted divers in the belts for 3 1/2 hours in the afternoon and then coached on the deck for two hours. He finished his day with a spotter on the dry board. P.S. He retired 3 years ago.

"What he did today shows me that if he goes in and hits his dives the way he can hit his dives, he will win the Olympic Games," Armstrong said. "He will. He will win the Olympic Games, I guarantee you.

USA Diving East Nationals Championships
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Moltrie GA
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Photos by Joe Chirico

"It is the hardest thing to do, to repeat what you have done," said Kenny Armstrong, United States Diving head coach.

The finish kept the USA Diving medals shutout alive with just two events to go...But Dumais' upbeat acceptance of the results could be a good sign for the long road toward Beijing in 2008. "I finished the way I wanted to finish," he said. "I did a heck of a job,

He will compete in all four medal events in diving - three-metre individual, 3m synchronised, 10m individual, 10m synchronised - having done the full Olympic program in Sydney four years ago and at World Cups since.

Chinese diving team, the five-gold winners at last Olympics, employ a 3D imaging system to give the divers a full view of everymove they do in the air..... "It is of great help," said Li Dazheng, top diving official in the Chinese Swimming Association. "It enables the divers to see every detail of their series of moves starting from jumping off." Enditem

"If there's any time to shine, first of all, it's at the Olympics," said Troy Dumais.    And the 24-year-old diver knows that better than most.

But the diving competition almost turned into farce, thanks to the behaviour of an over-excited spectator. ...And what happened was, a member of the crowd actually managed to breach security, get onto a diving board and jump into the pool. ...whether that rattled the Chinese or what, is unclear. But they basically muffed their next dive.

Tian Liang, a gold medal winner of men's synchronized 10-metre platform diving at Athens, and Guo Jingjing, for example, signed advertising and branding contracts with Coca-Cola long before the Games. Tian has also been the brand spokesman for Amway's health food products.

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Athens - China had their most successful Games in diving since they first burst onto the scene two decades ago, as the once powerful United States sunk to an all-time low in the Olympic Aquatic Centre.

Clearly shocked at the enthusiastic welcome, Leon who was joined by his parents and girlfriend, former teachers and coaches, spent half an hour signing autographs and posing for pictures.

The CBC drew its largest off-prime audience, 1.822 million, on Sunday, Aug. 22, at 2:30 p.m. EDT for women's diving.

Kongzheng “KZ” Li continues the rich tradition of exceptional coaching as the new Head Coach of the Mission Viejo Nadadores Dive Team. Head Coach, Kim Berbari, turned over the reighs to KZ in October as she and husband Luis await the arrival of the first child in January. On her decision to find a new head coach for the Nadadores Dive Team, Berbari said, “KZ will be excellent for the program and has all the ability and experience to bring the Nadadores back to the National Champions they once were.”

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Olympic golden medal winners and lovers, Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing, have been dumped from China's special diving training team for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games...The golden partners were besieged by rumors that they were involved in a triangle love, so both Olympic champions were demoted to their provincial sports teams.

"Our teams will train together... And our coaches, trainers, judges, officials, experts and scientists will attend seminars andcourses and exchange ideas beneficial to both countries," he said.

Canada faces international embarrassment at the pool. The 2005 world aquatic championships in Montreal are in danger, the chief organizer says, after the search for sponsors belly-flopped, leaving a budget shortfall of at least $14-million. Cancellation looms for the 180-country event,

Guo Jingjing, the heroine of rumoured love affairs with the grandson of a Hong Kong tycoon, has turned down all commercial activities at the request of the swimming administration.

Miss Janie has been extremely influential in the sport of diving as a supporter, administrator, and as US Diving registration chairperson for decades. Her personality and charm has extended far beyond the state boundaries of Georgia, and she has touched many peoples' lives among the diving community. Miss Janie had an endearing presence which made many of us feel as though she was the "mother" or "grandmother" of diving in the South. Up until the time of her death, she would be diligently working on all of the diving association business, and would expect phone calls during all diving events (whether they were junior, senior, high school or college) in order be informed of how the divers were doing. Her southern charm, wit, bright smile, and sincere concern for all involved in our sport will be greatly missed.

The increased funding will be used to strengthen the grass roots of sport – in particular school and community sport – and will help nurture a new generation of sporting champions ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The pair returned knowing how much celebrity appeal they have and a much more colorful world outside of the diving pool....The Chinese diving team maintains a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on romance but media and businessmen would rather label them as a pair of lovers as they ...