Dick Kimball was born on c 1935 and is an American former diving champion and diving coach at the University of Michigan.
19 Facts About Dick Kimball
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Dick Kimball was the NCAA springboard champion in 1957 and the Professional World Diving champion in 1963.
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Dick Kimball coached the University of Michigan diving team from 1958 to 2002 and coached the US Olympic diving teams in 1964,1980,1984,1988 and 1992.
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Dick Kimball has been inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
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In 1956, Kimball helped lead the Rochester Rockets to the Minnesota AAU outdoor swimming championship.
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Dick Kimball was a member of three NCAA champion swimming and diving teams at Michigan from 1957 to 1959.
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Dick Kimball won the Professional World Diving championship in 1963.
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Dick Kimball finished as the runner-up at the World Acrobatic Diving Championships.
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Dick Kimball was the coach of the Michigan Wolverines diving team for 44 years from 1959 to 2002.
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Dick Kimball's teams won seven Big Ten Conference championships and four NCAA championships.
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Dick Kimball coached three Big Ten Conference women's divers of the year: Diane Dudeck, Mary Fishback, and Carrie Zarse.
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Dick Kimball was the first to put a spotting rig over a diving board.
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Dick Kimball developed many new dives, including many of the dives in today's optional list.
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Dick Kimball taught King and Loken to do a complete men's list off the women's tower.
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Dick Kimball taught me dives that no woman had ever done before.
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Dick Kimball coached women divers at the University of Michigan free for 17 years before Title IX because he felt women deserved the same opportunities as men to dive in college.
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Dick Kimball was the coach of the US Olympic diving teams in 1980,1984,1988 and 1992.
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Dick Kimball served as volunteer assistant diving coach for 8 years following his official retirement.
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Dick Kimball has served at the president American Diving Coaches Association, and has been a member of the US Diving Olympic Committee and the Rules Committee of US Diving.