Diving

Former NCAA swimmers needed for brain imaging study! Compared to contact sports like American football, swimming poses less risk for traumatic brain injury, including concussion. Concussive hits are a concern in football, because the repeated concussive and subconcussive hits may contribute to ...

John Conner, a member of the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, passed away this past Saturday at the age of 91. Born on November 5, 1929 in Weir, W.Va., Conner twice earned All-America honors as a diver at Duke in 1949 and 1950.  He was a three-time Southern Conference champion (1949-50-51) and posted to...

The synchronized diving tandem of Juan Celaya-Hernandez and Yahel Castillo were named Thursday as 2020 recipients of the Mexican Olympic Committee’s National Sports Award (PND). Castillo and Celaya-Hernandez won a bronze medal in the three-meter synchro event at the FINA Diving Series in the summer ...

by Laura Voet The time has come to dive into the precast concrete fabrication process for the Hall of Fame Aquatic Center's 27 Meter High Tower. A few pictures from the field trip to Gate Precast in Kissimmee on October 16, 2020.   The Fort Lauderdale team was there to select the color and textures ...

From Swimmer To Swiver: An Interesting Transition By Tara Draper, Swimming World Intern Although classified together, the worlds of swimming and diving are vastly different. Swimming is all about power and speed, trying to out-touch your opponent by the smallest of margins to finish first. Diving is...

USA Diving announced changes to the schedule for 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Diving, which will take place June 6-13, 2021 at the Indiana University Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis. The trials will determine the divers who will represent the United States at the Olympic Games T...

History made by Red Bull Cliff Diving competitors in Transylvania. In a never-done-before feat, cliff diving’s female favorite Rhiannan Iffland with her diving partner and local hero Constantin Popovici, pushed the boundaries of high diving to the next level as they leaped from the walls of the cone...

Earlier this year, USA Diving formed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council consisting of staff members, athletes, coaches and thought leaders. These individuals have been working together to address diversity, equity and inclusion as they impact USA Diving and its members and to help identify op...

Cynthia Potter, 1987 ISHOF Honoree and 28-time National Champion as a Diver is special. She is One in a Thousand! When asked why she wanted to join the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s One in A Thousand Club, Potter said, “The Hall of Fame is so special and important to all of us. We have a his...

Greensboro Aquatic Center has been selected to host the 2020 USA Diving Winter National Championships from December 15-20, 2020, in Greensboro, N.C. The Greensboro Aquatic Center (GAC) is making sure to make the event as safe and healthy as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. “By installing the l...

West Virginia University men's and women's swimming and diving coach Vic Riggs announced the addition of Karla Helder as the program's head diving coach on Thursday. Helder arrives in Morgantown after serving as the diving coach at San Jose State from 2018-20. While coaching at SJSU, Helder led ever...

Illinois State head coach Caitlin Hamilton announced on Wednesday that Logan Pearsall has been named the Redbird diving coach entering the 2020-21 school year. Pearsall comes to Illinois State after a six-year stint as the head diving coach at Colorado Mesa University. "I am excited to welcome Logan...

USA Diving Tuesday announced the rescheduled dates for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials as June 6-13, 2021 at the Indiana University Natatorium at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Trials had been scheduled for June 14-21, 2020 prior to the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics last spring. The Tokyo Games are s...

How AAU Diving Safely Ran National Diving Competition During the Age of COVID. By Joe Chirico. Divers and coaches are all anxious to safely return to coaching, training and competing. It appears that many programs are finding ways to do this, whether in the pools, dryland facilities and even back y...

The Alabama Swimming and Diving program has added diving coach Jesse Lyman to its staff head coach Coley Stickels announced this week. “We’re excited to have Jesse join our staff,” Stickels said. “He’s one of the top young diving coaches around and is a great addition to what I believe is one of the...

Five-time Olympian Ken Terauchi, already qualified for a sixth Games for Japan at the Tokyo 202One Olympic Games next summer, is being treated in hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. He is the only member of the Japanese Olympic team known to have been infected with the coronav...

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...

Vicki Draves, a double Olympic gold medal-winning diver and International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was honored Monday as the subject of the Google Doodle. The Aug. 3 date marks the 72nd anniversary of Draves becoming the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal. Draves claimed gold i...

USA Diving on Friday announced Legacy 2028, a new long-term fundraising campaign aimed to support USA Diving members through the next two full Olympic cycles. The campaign’s aim is to raise $5 million over the next eight years with a goal, “to create a sustainable development program to support USA ...

Every gold medal takes years of dedication, training and focus. But it also takes a mental toll on every athlete — a toll most are not prepared to deal with. David Boudia opened up about the weight he went through before - he is part of several documentaries about Olympic struggles. Sometimes the to...