Word: diver
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...Championships, held in Midland, TX, attract the best divers--both collegiate and non-collegiate--in the nation. The event is a semi-yearly opportunity to gain points (which are accumulated by finishing in the top eight at national tournaments) in the national rankings. If a diver can accumulate four points, she is sent to the 1996 Olympic Trials...
...miss her next year," Miller says. "But we still have a very strong diver in Kara Miller, We'll miss Lara in terms of depth and in terms of representing Harvard at the [NCAA] National Championships...
...Diver Beukema qualified for his first NCAA championships by placing fifth overall at the Zone A Diving Championships at Navy March...
Only a handful of people, among them his coach, Ron O'Brien, knew of Louganis' condition in September '88. When the diver pulled ahead with that last platform dive, he embraced O'Brien and started sobbing. Asked by Walters what he told O'Brien, Louganis replied, "I said that nobody will ever know what we've just been through...
...diving world soon discovered him. "The first time I saw him," said former Olympic diving champion Dr. Sammy Lee, "he was 10, and I knew he would be the greatest diver in history if he got the right coach." Lee became that coach, and at the '76 Olympics in Montreal the 16-year-old Louganis won a silver medal. It was also in Montreal that Louganis developed a big crush-on a Soviet diver called Yuri in the book. "I fell for him like a boulder off the 10-m platform," writes Louganis. It led to nothing more than...