Megan Neyer was born on June 11,1962 and is an American former competition springboard and platform diver.
13 Facts About Megan Neyer
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Megan Neyer was born in Ashland, Kentucky in 1962, but moved to Mission Viejo, California to further her athletic training with the Mission Viejo Nadadores.
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Megan Neyer won the United States Olympic trials in both springboard and platform diving in 1980, but did not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the American-led boycott arising from the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.
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Megan Neyer was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.
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Megan Neyer accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she competed in National Collegiate Athletic Association competition as a member of coach Randy Reese's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in 1982,1983,1984 and 1986.
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Individually, Megan Neyer won a record eight NCAA diving championships, sweeping the one-meter and three-meter springboard events in all four years of college diving, and was recognized as an All-American eight times.
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Megan Neyer returned to the University of Florida for her senior season in 1986, winning the NCAA championships in the one-meter and three-meter springboard events again.
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Megan Neyer was recognized as an Academic All-American in 1983 and 1986, and graduated from Florida with a 3.5 cumulative gradepoint average and a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1986.
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Megan Neyer remains the all-time winningest collegiate diver, male or female, in NCAA history.
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Megan Neyer won her fifteenth and final US national championship in 1988, and retired from competition diving following the 1988 Olympic Trials after failing to qualify for the US Olympic Team.
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Megan Neyer was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1996, and the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Megan Neyer was honored as a University of Florida Alumna of Outstanding Achievement in 1997, and was formerly the director of performance and wellness counseling at the Homer Rice Center for Sports Performance at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Megan Neyer currently is the principal of Total Performance Systems, Inc.