Dick Smith (diver)
Dick A. Smith (January 17, 1917 - January 2, 2006) was an American diver and a Hall of Fame diving coach and instructor who competed for the University of Southern California and coached the United States Air Force; Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, the Dick Smith Swim Gym in Phoenix, Arizona; and The Woodlands Aquatics Center in Houston, Texas. He was an Olympic dive coach for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics where four of his divers, Patsy Willard, Jeanne Collier, Tom Gompf, and Lesley Bush received diving medals. He coached the U.S. Olympic team again in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where two of his divers, Bernard Wrightson, and Edwin Young received medals. He was an Olympic coach for New Zealand in 1976, for the U.S. Air Force in 1972, and for Egypt, Finland and New Zealand in 1984. Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas on January 17, 1917 to Marion and Edna Knierham Smith and graduated from Phoenix Union High School. He learned to swim at the Riverside Park Pool in Phoen ...
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita ( ) is the List of cities in Kansas, most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532, and the Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610. It is located in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River. Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for Cattle drives in the United States, cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname "Cowtown".Miner, Craig (Wichita State Univ. Dept. of History), ''Wichita: The Magic City'', Wichita Historical Museum Association, Wichita, KS, 1988Howell, Angela and Peg Vines, ''The Insider's Guide to Wichita'', Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing, Wichita, KS, 1995 In 1875, Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for about one year before going to Dodge ...
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Patsy Willard
Mary Patricia ("Patsy") Willard (born May 18, 1941) is a former American diver, who attended and dove for Arizona State University, and won a bronze medal in the three-meter springboard at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. She finished a close fourth in springboard diving at the 1960 Olympics. Willard was born in Phoenix, Arizona on May 18, 1941. She was a 1959 graduate of Mesa High School in Mesa, Arizona, and swam for the Dick Smith Swim Gym. Representing the Dick Smith Gym in July 1959, she took second place in the women's National AAU 3-meter diving competition in Redding, California. She took first in 1-meter springboard diving in December 1960 at the Mid-Winter Aquatic Festival in Phoenix. Olympics She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she won a bronze medal in the 3 meter springboard event. Willard finished only .18 points behind American diver Jeanne Collier who took the silver, and finished around seven points behind Ingrid Engel Kramer of Germany, ...
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University Of Southern California Alumni
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Sportspeople From Phoenix, Arizona
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American Male Divers
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2006 Deaths
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