Diving

Australian Olympic gold medalist diver Matthew Mitcham discussed his battle with a “crippling” drug and alcohol addiction in an interview with the BBC. The 32-year-old Australian won a gold medal in the 10-meter platform diving at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Not only was he the first Australian ma...

Greg Louganis, one of the greatest divers of all-time if not the greatest, appeared on Orlando Duque's podcast to talk about dealing with the post-Olympic blues. Louganis won four Olympic gold medals in his career, winning the 10m and 3m events in the 1984 and 1988 Games. Listen to the podcast here ...

Duke’s Seamus Harding Jr. has been selected as the ACC Men’s Diver of the Week and fellow Blue Devil Ellie Winslow has been named the ACC Women’s Diver of the Week. A freshman from Hillsborough, New Jersey, Harding Jr. scored a 357.08 on platform and a 347.55 on the 3-meter in the meet against UNC W...

Kelly Straub set the Notre Dame platform diving record, her second straight week with a program record, as the Fighting Irish lead West Virginia after day one of a two-day meet. The No. 18 men’s team has a commanding 141-45 lead, while the 18th-ranked women are up 99-67. Straub scored 273.45 points ...

Passages: A Tribute to Who Was Lost in the Swimming World in 2020: Part 2 (July-December) The world of swimming endured a number of notable passages in 2020, individuals who enriched the sport in the pool and on deck. In 2020, we lost some of the sports coaching pioneers around the globe. Many of th...

USA Diving announced the tentative schedule for the 2021 USA Diving Regional, Zone and National Championships. The championship events will begin with the various Regional Championships around the country the weekends of April 30 – May 2 and May 7–9, 2021. These events will lead into USA Diving Zone...

Due to rising COVID-19 cases across the country, USA Diving decides to postpone the 2021 World Cup Trials, that were set to take place next week in Greensboro, North Carolina, indefinitely. Greensboro was announced as host in September of this year. USA Diving sent out the below press release regard...

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...