Jaele Patrick

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Jaele Patrick
Patrick at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Personal information
Full nameJaele Patrick
Born (1988-03-04) 4 March 1988 (age 36)
Lilydale, Victoria[1][2][3]
Height164 cm (65 in) (2012)
Weight59 kg (130 lb) (2012)
Sport
SportDiving
Event3 m springboard
College teamTexas A&M University (U.S.)
ClubGannets Diving Club[4]
TeamVictorian Institute of Sport
Coached byMatthew Adamson (2005-)
Jay Lerew (2010-)
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Delhi
3 m synchro
springboard
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Delhi 3 m springboard
Updated on 25 June 2012.

Jaele Patrick (born 4 March 1988) is an Australian diver specialising in the women's three-metre springboard event. Starting as a gymnast at age four, she switched to diving when she was fifteen years old and attended

Texas A&M on a diving scholarship. She placed 11th at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4]

Personal life

Patrick attended Lilydale West Primary School, and then went to high school at

Texas A&M, where she majored in business[6] and minored in sport management.[7] As of 2012 she lives in College Station, Texas.[1][2][6]

Patrick started in gymnastics when she was four years old[5] but quit the sport because of injury when she was fifteen.[5][7]

Diving

Patrick is a diver, specialising in the women's three-metre springboard event.[1] She started diving as a fifteen-year-old, following an injury,[2] after a friend invited her to come and try the sport.[7] She has been coached by Matthew Adamson since 2005 and Jay Lerew since 2010; both coached her going into the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1][6][2][7] She has two training bases, one in Texas and one in Melbourne.[1][2] In Australia, she is a member of the Gannets Diving Club and has held a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport in Melbourne.[1][6][2][7] As of June 2012, her best career score in the one-metre event is 360.37 and her best career score in the three-metre event is 412.35.[6]

National competitions

In 2006, Patrick earned gold in the three-metre event and a bronze medal in the one-metre at the Australian Elite Junior Diving Championships in Brisbane.[6][2] She also competed in the German Grand Prix and the Russian Grand Prix.[2] In 2007, she finished in the top ten in the three-metre and the one-metre events in the Australian Open Diving Championships.[6] In 2008, she finished second in the Australia national championships in the three-metre springboard.[6] She also competed in the Italian Grand Prix.[2] In 2009, she finished fifth in the one-metre event and eighth in the three-metre event at the Australian Open Championships in Brisbane.[2] She finished second at the 2010 Australian Open Championships in Sydney in the one-metre springboard.[2] She finished second in the one metre and three-metre events at the 2012 Australian Open Championships.[1][2] She finished third in the three-metre-syncro event.[1][2]

University team

From 2008 to 2012, Patrick was a member of the swimming and diving team at

Texas A&M[1][7][8] while on a diving scholarship.[7] While there during her final season, her university coach was Lerew Jay.[8] She was named the Big 12 Women's Diver of the Week twice in November 2011, twice in January 2012, and again in February 2012.[3] She competed in diving at the university level, where she won the 2012 NCAA title in the 3m event.[1][8]

National team

Patrick was a member of the Australia national development squad.[6] She competed at the 2007 World University Games.[2] In 2010, she competed at the FINA USA Open in Fort Lauderdale, where she finished fifth in the three-metre event, and seventh in the three-metre syncro with partner Olivia Wright.[2] She represented Australia at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she earned two bronze medals,[1][2] one in the three-metre and one in the three-metre synchro event with partner Olivia Wright.[2] She finished fourth in the one-metre event.[2] In 2011, she competed in the FINA USA Grand Prix, and won a bronze medal in the three-metre springboard at the FINA Italian Grand Prix.[2] At the 2012 Australian trials in Adelaide, she finished second in the three-metre event.[1]

Patrick was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics[1][9][10] in the three-metre individual springboard where she will make her Olympic debut.[10] She finished eleventh in the three-metre event at the Fort Lauderdale Grand Prix in Florida.[1][2] She finished sixteenth in the three-metre event at 2012 Montreal Grand Prix in Canada.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "London 2012 - Jaele Patrick". Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 11 August 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "Jaele Patrick". Diving Australia. 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Texas Swimmers, Texas A&M Divers Sweep Final Big 12 Awards". Big 12. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  4. ^ a b Jaele Patrick. sports-reference.com
  5. ^ a b c Armitage, Laura (22 June 2012). "Show Your Support: Lilydale Olympian going for gold". Lilydale & Yarra Valley Leader. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Jaele Patrick Biography". Texas A&M Official Athletic Site. 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Ward, Roy (12 June 2012). "Come-and-try day leads to London gig". Maroondah Weekly. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  8. ^ a b c "Diver Profile: Jaele Patrick". DiveMeets. 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  9. ^ "Jaele Patrick". ABC News. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Mitcham to spearhead diving challenge". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
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