Ginni van Katwijk (born 1985) is a Dutch
high diver.
Career
Van Katwijk dove at the
University of Houston
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.
She began diving as a performer on
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
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after graduation.
She made her
Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series debut in
Saint-Raphaël, France in 2021, becoming the first diver from the Netherlands,
as well as the first married couple, with husband Matt Cooper, to compete at the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Van Katwijk placed fifth in
high diving at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships.
In 2023, Cooper and van Katwijk became the first married couple to compete at the World Aquatics High Diving World Cup.
She placed eleventh, with 232.70 points, at the
World High Diving Championship in Fukuoka, Japan. Van Katwijk placed fourteenth at the
women's 20-metre at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha. She placed second at the Northern Ireland event at the
2024 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, her first ever podium finish at a Red Bull event.
Personal life
Van Katwijk is married to Matt Cooper (born
), an American high diver. They met while both were competing in university-level diving in Texas, with van Katwijk diving for the University of Houston, and Cooper for the
University of Texas at Austin
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. Cooper proposed in 2016, and the couple married two years later.
References
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Female high divers
1985 births
Living people
Dutch female divers
21st-century Dutch women
Houston Cougars women's divers
Sportspeople from Rotterdam