Kelly Anne McCormick (born February 13, 1960 in
Anaheim
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,
California
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) is a retired female
diver from the United States. She twice competed for her native country at the
Summer Olympics
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, winning a silver (1984) and a bronze medal (1988) in the Women's 3m Springboard event.
Kelly is the daughter of the famous diving champion
Pat McCormick and diving coach Glenn McCormick. Growing up in
Rossmoor, CA in the 1960s and 1970s Kelly’s first sport was gymnastics, and by the age of 13 she was an elite gymnast on the same team with Olympian
Cathy Rigby. Kelly attended
Los Alamitos High School
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where she began “playing around” with diving and then attended the
Ohio State University
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to be coached by Vince Panzanno. By 1981 she had made the national team, and over the next ten years became a major figure of international status.
In 1982 Kelly won the first of 9 National Championships (6-3m springboard, 3-10m platform) and an
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
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3m springboard championship. In 1983 she won the
Pan American Games
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gold medal, but in 1984 she battled a back injury that hospitalized her for six weeks before the Olympic trials. After being convinced to not quit, she recovered to win the Trials and then the Olympic silver medal on the 3m springboard in Los Angeles behind Canada’s Hall of Famer
Sylvie Bernier
Sylvie Bernier, CM, CQ (born January 31, 1964) is an Olympic athlete from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. She won the gold medal in the Women's 3m Springboard Diving at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Bernier announced her retirement fr ...
.
In her second
Pan American Games
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(1987, Indianapolis) Kelly took the gold becoming the first woman to win two consecutive Pan Am springboard gold medals. She won the 1988 Olympic trials with a torn calf muscle and the Olympic bronze medal in Seoul behind Hall of Famer
Gao Min of China.
She now coaches at the same facility where she had her last meet, the
Goodwill Games
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at the
King County Aquatic Center
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It has hosted US Olympic Diving Team Trials in 2000 and 2012, NCAA championships, PAC-12 conference champions ...
in
Federal Way, WA.
Personal life
She is married to Matt Robertson and resides in
Seattle
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,
Washington
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.
Los Alamitos HS Hall of Fame – Kelly McCormick Robertson (’78)
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See also
* List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
The International Swimming Hall of Fame
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References
External links
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1960 births
Living people
American female divers
Divers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Divers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in diving
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in diving
Sportspeople from Anaheim, California
Ohio State Buckeyes women's divers
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in diving
Divers at the 1983 Pan American Games
Divers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
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