Diane Mae Ogibowski (born June 19, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive
figure skater
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London, Ontario
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. The following season, she won two senior international medals – silver at the 1981
Karl Schäfer Memorial
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and bronze at the 1981
Ennia Challenge Cup
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. At the
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* Canadian Championship, the national championship tournament for professional soccer
* Canadian Figure Skating Championships
* Canadian Professiona ...
, she won the novice ladies' title in 1980 and became the junior champion the next year. She was a member of the Brandon Figure Skating Club in
Brandon, Manitoba
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, and won the
Brandon Sun
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's 1981 Krug Crawford Award.
Ogibowski grew up on a farm northeast of Basswood, Manitoba. She married Canadian ice hockey player
Ron Hextall
Ronald Jeffrey Hextall (born May 3, 1964) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender and executive. He was most recently the general manager#Sports teams, general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL ...
and gave birth to their first child, Kristin, in 1986. Their other children are named Brett, Rebecca, and Jeffrey.