This year's FINA International Meet was loaded with excitement:  From USA Gold Laura Wilkinson's new 'big" dives-5255d & 307c to an Olympic Diver autograph table with the greatest of all time - Greg Louganis.  It was also a super social time with all of us meeting the greats in our sport - from our 1st Gold Medal winner Sammy Lee to the youngest on our national team - 13 yr old Haley Ishimatsu, who is now diving at the US National Training Center in Indianapolis.

Below please find a sampling of what we enjoyed...more to come later!!!

 Click pics to enlarge ~ Tory and Dani met a lot of Olympic Coaches and Olympic Athletes...

1) Princeton Coach Greg Gunn & Indiana University/Olympic Coach Jeff Huber
2) UConn Coach John Bransfield & Rutgers Coach Fred Woodruff

3) U.S. National Training Center Coach John Wingfield, Pitt Coach Julian Krug and Julian's wife Doe pose with Tory & Dani

  4) Meet announcer Gary with the girls
 

5)Olympic Coach Kenny Armstrong with girls

Around the deck a few Worldwide Olympians were seen..
and were very gracious with their time:

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Above Tory & Dani pose with the greatest Russian diver of all time -
#3 Dimitry Sautin - more Olympic medals than anyone...
#2 Girls watch some diving while USA Olympian Troy Dumais takes greasy sun tan lotion off his legs??
#4 Olympic Gold Laura Wilkinson and Australian Olympian Loudy Tourky
#5 Girls pose with some of the USA National Team
#1 A "cute" Brazilian or Columbian diver (according to Dani:)

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#6,7 & 8 ~ Russian tower Olympians -Yulia Koltunova& Natalia Goncharova, reportedly invited Jim to Russia with them, but #9- USA Olympic Coaches Kenny Armstrong and Dave Parrington (Tennessee), sandwich Jim and won't let him go...9) Kenny coaches Laura Wilkinson & many of the USA National team in Texas and Dave has coached many Olympians over the years. Your coach 1st met Dave at the 1996 Olympic Games where he was coaching a diver from South Africa...and always willing to learn, your coach also had a personal coaching session with the great Kenny Armstrong.  Super fun, super learning trip!

Please come back for more later...:)