Victoria Manalo Draves was a Filipino American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. Additionally, Draves became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals. She was born in San Francisco.
Scott Richard Donie was a former American diver for Southern Methodist University who was a silver medalist in 10m platform diving in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and participated in springboard diving in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics placing forth. He later became an accomplished Head diving coach for New York University and then Columbia University.
Robert Lynn Clotworthy was an American diver and swimmer for Ohio State, and a 1956 Olympic gold and 1952 bronze medalist in the 3-meter springboard. He later had a successful career as a coach from around 1955-76, with his longest stint at Princeton from 1958-1970 where he led the team to the 1962 Eastern Seaboard Championships, and produced Princeton's first Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Jed Graef.
Ernst Magnus Brandsten was a Swedish diver who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics for Sweden in Springboard, Platform, and High diving. He was the swimming, water polo, and diving coach for Stanford University from 1916-1947.
Edwin Harold Smith was an American diver who competed at the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics.
Dick Kimball is an American former diving champion and diving coach at the University of Michigan. He was the NCAA springboard champion in 1957 and the Professional World Diving champion in 1963. He coached the University of Michigan diving team from 1958 to 2002 and also coached the U.S. Olympic diving teams in 1964, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. He has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
Patrick S. Jeffrey is a retired diver from the United States who competed for Ohio State University and participated in Platform diving for the U.S. team in the 1988 and 1996 Olympics. Excelling as a coach, he would later coach diving at Florida State from 1999 to 2014, at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at Stanford University after 2014.
Mathew Aaron "Matt" Scoggin is a retired diver from the United States, who competed for the University of Texas and was a Platform Diving participant at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He coached diving at Longhorn Diving Club beginning in 1986, and at the University of Texas beginning in 1994. In his accomplished career of over thirty years as a coach at Texas, he has been a seven-time NCAA Coach of the Year and served as a U.S. Olympic Coach in 2000, 2008, 2012, 2020 and 2024. As of 2024, his divers at the University of Texas have earned 23 individual NCAA championships and 114 individual Big 12 titles.
Kelly Anne McCormick 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.
Janet Ely is a former American female diver for the University of Michigan and Southern Methodist University and was a diving competitor in the 1972 Munich and 1976 Montreal Olympics. Under coach Dick Kimball, she trained in swimming and diving at the YMCA Tennis Club, then attended and swam for the University of Michigan and Southern Methodist University.
Janna Wendy Wyland, also known by her married name Wendy van der Woude, was a female diver from the United States who won a bronze medal in 10-meter Platform diving at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.
Ronald Shay O'Brien was a Hall of Fame American diving coach and author who dove for Ohio State University. He was the head diving coach at Ohio State from 1963-78, later coaching the Mission Viejo Nadadores from 1978-85, the Mission Bay Divers of Boca Raton from 1985-90, and the City of Fort Lauderdale Diving Team from 1990-96. He coached diving for the U.S. Olympic team for eight successive Olympics from 1968-96 and coached Olympic champion Greg Louganis and future Ohio State Diving Coach Vince Panzano. The seven Olympic medalists he coached won five gold, three silver, and four bronze medals.
Christopher Snode is a former World Cup Champion diver who represented Great Britain and England.
Donald de Wayne "Don" Harper was an American diver who competed for Ohio State University and won a silver medal in springboard diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Richard Walter "Rick" Gilbert is an American former diver and coach who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He won two World University (FISU) Games gold medals, was silver medalist on 3-meter in the 1963 Pan American Games and amassed five Big Ten and seven national titles while at Indiana University. He was a six-time NCAA All-American and four-time AAU All-American and won one NCAA and six national AAU titles. Gilbert was on the 1968 United States Olympic Team that competed in Mexico City. After Mexico City, he became coach of diving at Cornell University, where he coached 39 years until his retirement in 2007. Gilbert was named Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Women's Diving Coach of the Year in 1991, 1992 and 1993 and Men's Diving Coach of the Year in 1984. He was chairman of the NCAA Diving Rules Sub-Committee from 1976 to 1980. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1973, the Indiana University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1997, and into the Pennsylvania Aquatics Hall of Fame in 2019.
Li Hongping is a Chinese-American former diver who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Hongping Li, an NCAA champion and two-time Olympian who has been one of the most successful NCAA coaches for more than a decade, is in his 14th year as USC's head diving coach. He was named to the position on July 1, 1999.
Ali Al-Hasan is a Kuwaiti diver who dove for Southern Methodist University and competed with the Kuwaiti diving team in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Tony Iglesias was a Bolivian former diver who competed for Southern Methodist University, and participated in two diving events at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Donald Ericcson Leas was an American gymnast, diver and diving coach who dove for the University of Michigan and coached diving at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1990. Divers trained by him won 36 individual national championships and posted 234 All-America placings. He chaired USA Diving, AAU Diving, and the USA Diving Rules Committee. He was selected in 1999 to receive the Paragon Award by the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Dave Hrovat was a competitive diver and coach who dove for Clemson University and coached diving at the Clarion University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2021, where he led his teams to 48 individual championship titles and 294 All-American finishes.
