Jill Schlabach
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Born | Fairfield, Ohio, United States | |||||||||||
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Sport | Diving | |||||||||||
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Jill Schlabach (born 1965 or 1966)[1] is an American diver. She competed in the NCAA Championship and the 1991 Pan American Games. Schlabach hoped to participate in the 1992 Olympics.
Early life
Schlabach did tumbling in elementary school and did not survive until she entered high school. She said that she landed right on her face the first time she went off a board. After graduating from Fairfield High School, Schlabach attended the
Schlabach moved to Michigan in December 1989 after meeting University of Michigan coach Dick Kimball at an Olympic Festival. Kimball asked her to join his team and Schlabach found a job at the Michigan Medical Center. Once she improved her diving, she began to work less hours. During days that she worked, Schlabach trained from 4:10 to 6:00 PM, arrive at work by 7:00 PM, stay there till 7:30 AM, and then travel back to the pool to train until 9:30. Schlabach later competed at the FINA Diving World Cup in Canada.[3]
Diving at the 1991 Pan American Games
Schlabach was a surgical intensive-care nurse at
References
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- Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Hersh, Phil (July 18, 1991). "Diving Easy Shift For Shlabach". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
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