Eleanor Townsend Smart (born 1995), also known as Ellie Smart, is an American
high diver
High diving is the act of diving into water from relatively great heights. High diving can be performed as an adventure sport (as with cliff diving), as a performance stunt (as with many records attempts), or competitively during sporting even ...
. She placed third at the 2022
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
Early life and education
Smart was born on October 20, 1995.
She grew up in
Fairway, Kansas and began diving at age 5.
Smart attended
Shawnee Mission East High School in
Prairie Village, Kansas before moving to Texas after her freshman year to more seriously pursue her athletic career in Texas.
She attended the
University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 2016. After graduation, she pursued master's degree program in sports psychology.
Career
Smart competed on the diving team for two seasons at the
University of California at Berkeley.
In 2017, she made her Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series debut as a wildcard at the opening event in Inos Mor, Ireland. She scored 195.35 points, placing fifth.
Smart won a bronze medal in high diving at the 2018
FINA High Diving World Cup, her world cup debut.
2019
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was Smart's first season as a permanent diver on the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. She placed second at the event in
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina that season. In 2022, Smart placed second overall at the Red Bull World Series. She placed third in the Mostar event at the
2023 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series
The 2023 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series is an ongoing season of the Red Bull-sponsored international cliff diving series. It is the 15th edition of this event. The series began on 3 June in Boston, United States, with the final event on 28 ...
, and fourth in the series overall.
She co-founded the Clean Cliffs Project with partner and fellow diver Owen Weymouth.
Smart placed ninth in the
women's 20-metre at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. She was in fourth place after the first two rounds of diving.
Personal life
Smart splits her time between
Fort Lauderdale and Prairie Village.
References
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1995 births
Living people
American female divers
Female high divers
California Golden Bears athletes
People from Johnson County, Kansas
21st-century American sportswomen