Name: Nick McCrory
Sport: Diving
Discipline: 10-meter individual, 10m synchro
Hometown: Chapel Hill, N.C.
College: Duke University
Sport: Diving
Discipline: 10-meter individual, 10m synchro
Hometown: Chapel Hill, N.C.
College: Duke University
Olympic Experience:
- 2012 Olympic Games - bronze medal in 10-meter synchro, ninth individually
Highlights:
National
- Six-time national champion
- Won 10-meter at 2011 AT&T National Diving Championships
- Won 10-meter at 2008 Kaiser Permanente National Championships
International
- Bronze medalist in synchronized 10-meter at 2012 Olympic Games (9th individually on 10-meter)
- Sixth individually on 10-meter at 2011 World Championships
- Gold medalist in synchronized 10-meter at 2012 FINA World Series meet in Mexico (also won World Series silver in Russia that same year)
- Won silver on 3-meter at 2006 Junior World Championships
Other
- Won NCAA titles on platform all four years he competed for Duke (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014)
- Earned 11 All-America honors for Duke
- 10-time ACC champion
- Four-time ACC Male Diver of the Year
- ACC Men’s Swimming and Diving Freshman of the Year
- Three-time North Carolina high school state champion
Fun Facts: His uncle, Gordon Downie, won a bronze medal in swimming at the 1976 Olympics for Great Britain (800-meter free relay) ... Nick would like to become a doctor, just like his father ... He’s active in the Little People of America with his younger brother Lucas, and describes himself as arachnophobic, ambitious and level-headed ... He likes to eat sushi, Chinese food and original glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
