Barbara McAlister (diver)
Barbara Ellen Talmage ( McAlister; born May 20, 1941) is an American diver. She won a gold medal in springboard diving at the 1963 Pan American Games in São Paulo and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. Early life McAlister was born Barbara Ellen McAlister on May 20, 1941. She was a student of Los Angeles City College and later Arizona State University, where her father William McAlister was a swimming coach, having previously been a swimming coach for high schools in Placentia and Fullerton. In 1957 and 1958, she was a student at Fresno's Roosevelt High School, where as a sophomore she won California Interscholastic Federation crown. She later graduated from Anaheim High School in 1958. Career In the late 1950s, she began training under Glenn McCormick, husband of Olympic gold medalist Pat McCormick. She won the women's event at the 1958 San Joaquin Valley Swimming and Diving Championships. The same year, while competing in the national indo ...
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