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| Full name | Patricia Joan McCormick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 12, 1930 (age 90) Seal Beach, California, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 162 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Diving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Los Angeles Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (born May 12, 1930) is a retired American diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so.
As a child in the 1930s and 1940s she was notable for executing dives that were not allowed in competition for female divers (dives reputed to scare most men) and for practicing off the Los Alamitos Bridge in Long Beach, California Harbor.[2] She attended Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, Long Beach City College, and California State University, Long Beach.[3]
After the Olympics McCormick did diving tours and was a model for Catalina swimsuits. She served on the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics organizing committee and began a program called "Pat's Champs"—a foundation to help motivate kids to dream big and to set practical ways to succeed.[4] McCormick's husband, Glenn, was a diving coach for her, as well as for other Olympic diving medalists. They divorced after 24 years of marriage. He died in 1995. They had two children, Tim, born in 1956, just five months before McCormick won two gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, and Kelly (born 1960), who won two Olympic medals (silver, bronze) in diving.[1]
See also
- List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
References
- ^ a b Pat McCormick. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Amazing Moments in Olympic History: Pat & Kelly McCormick". Archived from the original on 2010-01-30. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
- ^ "Going For Gold". Beach. California State University, Long Beach: 15. Summer–Fall 2016.
- ^ Carpenter, Eric (2008-08-03). "Memories as good as gold". The Orange County Register. pp. News 6.
External links
- Patricia McCormick at databaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived March 9, 2007)