"First and foremost, (the Quakertown Community School District doesn't) have a pool, and second, the pool we use at the Upper Bucks YMCA doesn't have a diving well."   Those are the kind of things that would stop some less dedicated athletes dead in their tracks - but not Davis.

The Energizer Bunny, Timex watches, reruns of "Seinfeld" - things that just keep going on and on and on. Add Horlick High School graduate Bryan Dykstra to the list of perpetual motion machines. As a freshman diver of the UW-Eau Claire swim team, Dykstra has a unique style of staying in shape: Never sit still for a second.

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.

June 2004 was a thrilling month in the Kimberley with apparently sane, tanned and toned men hurling themselves off huge cliffs into some of the regions breathtaking gorges.  Some of the world's leaders in the sport of cliff diving have been touring the Kimberley's most spectacular gorges in pursuit of the ultimate dive.

Cristi Lindsey can't wait for the holiday break to be over. .. -- but the University of North Dakota diver wants to get back to the water. And no one can blame her for the start she's off to this season..."Cristi's always been a good competitor," UND diving coach Brian Strom said. "She's at the point now where she doesn't really need to learn anything, she just has to perfect ..

ROCKFORD -- Rockford Guilford freshman Andrew Muzzarelli said the hardest thing about learning to dive is adapting to the cold.....Transitioning from tumbling to diving is nothing newto the diving community. Local diving coach Ron Merriott competed on the trampoline when he was young and went on to earn a bronze medal in diving in the 1984 Olympics.

For China's diving team, nothing speaks louder of their "dream team" aura than the results during the Athens Olympics."Diving in other parts of the world is developing really fast and China can no longer enjoy comfortable wins in competitions," Zhou said.

If divers Natalie Thomas and Liza Marianni didn't get along, it wouldn't be considered a major surprise. After all, they are arch-rivals.  Last season, at the state championship meet, Thomas, of Cherokee, took the crown. The year before, the title belonged to Marianni, of Cherry Hill West.....Four afternoons a week, the girls practice at Drexel University in Philadelphia with the Spinner diving team. It's a ritual they have followed for the last 10 years under coach Larry May.

Adamstown diver Matthew Helm relentlessly seeks perfection.  He has been searching for the elusive perfect 10 since he was five years old.  While some say the 24 year old diver found it at the Athens Olympics earlier this year when he scored four perfect 10s (a total score of 99.96) in the men's 10m platform to take the silver medal, Matthew says he could have done better.

Aberdeen's Bon Accord Baths will be open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Hogmanay and New Year's Day to allow for an early morning swim before the festivities get underway. The pool's famous diving boards have also recently reopened after a three-year closure. The 1.5m springboard, 3m and 5m static boards are available for use, while the 7.5m board is due to reopen soon

ROBERT Newbery took a back seat on the publicity wagon to his wife Chantelle in 2004 after the fellow diver won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 10m competition in Athens.....He is one of 10 finalists who will vie for the honour of being named SA's premier athlete at a ceremony at the National Wine Centre on February 11.

Kelly Walsh diver Nick Stone has yet to find a true rival on the springboard, so his arch-nemesis is a dive: the back 1.5 pike...At last year's state swimming and diving meet, Stone needed 23 points on the last dive to win. He chose the back 1.5 pike, a dive with a high amount of difficulty but one Stone was confident he could execute. He didn't. Laramie's Brock Weitzal won the closest diving competition in state finals history by 0.65 points....."In practice, I keep nailing that dive," Stone said. "Now it's just, 'do it right, stop messing around.'

Now, many athletes experience depression after a huge Olympic win. After all, from the time they were children, they were completely immersed in their particular event. They were conditioned to shoot for the top. But no one teaches them what to do once they get there....Pat McCormick found a unique way to combat these post-Olympic blues by giving something back. This winner decided to help out kids who'd been labeled losers.

Gao Min, who retired 12 years ago as the greatest female springboard diver in the history of the sport, will be a special guest of the organizing committee trying to bring the 2012 Summer Olympics to New York City

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.

Admiral Farragut senior Austin Hampton had been a high school All-American since he was a freshman yet seemed to be diving in obscurity...Hampton completed a flawless senior season by winning the Class A title, fending off a seventh-grader, Boca Raton St. Andrew's Cameron Dehn, at the (Fla.) state meet...."I made sure my coach, Tony, really critiqued me.

Derek Beaumont: Coached and judged diving at the Commonwealths, Europeans and World championships, as well as the Olympic Games. A much respected diving coach who produced a county champion for 46 successive years!

PETALING JAYA: In what is a recognition of the efforts to groom a pool of promising young divers, Malaysia have been picked to host the next World Junior Championships in 2006.

Matt Bisordi (San Mateo, Calif.) and Monica Maxwell (San Jose, Calif.) received the conference's Male and Female Divers of the Month, respectively.

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 ...

Chinese diving champion Tian Liang is linking up with the Hong Kong entertainment giant, Hinterland Emperor, to enter the scening circle in January.

The possible scrapping of plans to build two 50-meter swimming pools, a diving platform and 4,000-seat grandstand did not sit well with the nonprofit Foundation for Mesa Parks and Recreation and the Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau.

"Diving is one of the most mentally exhausting sports and can be emotionally frustrating, but he does a great job at maintaining some sanity for all of us," she said. "He wants us to do the best we can during our training to set ourselves up for success when the season comes along."

Hong Kong: Retired Chinese champion diver Fu Mingxia has given birth to a boy in Hong Kong, newspapers reported on Monday.   Fu’s second child with former Hong Kong financial secretary Antony Leung was delivered at Queen Mary Hospital on Sunday, Oriental Daily News reported.  Both mother and child are well, Sing Tao daily reported.