Lesley Leigh Bush (born September 17, 1947) is an American diver and Olympic champion. She represented the US at the

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in Tokyo, where she received a gold medal in Platform Diving."1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan – Diving"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 18, 2008) Lesley performed with the 1968 Olympic diving team as well. A resident of

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, Bush attended

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, which didn't have any diving facilities. Bush was inducted into the

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in 1986. She received a Silver Anniversary Award from the

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as part of the Class of 1995. Bush was married to Olympic swimmer Charles Hickcox, but is divorced. She is the sister of 1972 Olympic diver David Bush. She was later married to fellow high school teacher, David Makepeace, while living in the Florida Keys during the 80's. She was then teaching high school biology class at Coral Shores High School on

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. Now retired, she was recently a science teacher at Thomas R. Grover Middle School in

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* Kategori:Personer fra Orange {{DEFAULTSORT:Bush, Lesley 1947 births Living people American female divers Divers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Divers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in diving People from Orange, New Jersey People from Princeton, New Jersey Princeton High School (New Jersey) alumni Sportspeople from Mercer County, New Jersey Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in diving Universiade medalists in diving Divers at the 1967 Pan American Games Universiade gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 1965 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1967 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games 21st-century American women

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