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Hobie Billingsley
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Hobart Sherwood Billingsley (December 2, 1926 – July 16, 2022) was an American diving champion who later coached high school, college, and olympic diving teams for several decades. He was an honoree of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Billingsley was born to Wenonah (Willing) Billingsley and James in Erie, Pennsylvania, on December 2, 1926. He taught himself how to dive by analyzing wallcharts at his local YMCA. During his final year of high school in 1943, he finished in third place at the national championships. He then studied at Ohio State University (OSU), where he won the NCAA one-and three-meter titles during his freshman year in 1945. After putting his studies on hold to enlist in the United States Armed Forces, Billingsley served in Japan during World War II before going back to OSU. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Washington and obtained a master's degree.
Billingsley first worked as a high school teacher and coach. He was the swimming and diving coach at Allen Park High School in Wayne County, Michigan from 1955 to 1957, where he molded the beginnings of a swimming program that led to Allen Park eventually capturing the Michigan High School Boys State Championship. He was subsequently recruited by James Counsilman, the head swimming coach at Indiana University who created the position of diving coach especially for Billingsley.
Billingsley served as the Indiana Hoosiers’s diving coach from 1959 to 1989. During these three decades, he led the Hoosiers to six NCAA and 23 Big Ten team championships. He also coached the United States Olympic diving team at the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Summer Games. Divers under his tutelage won 115 national diving titles and seven Olympic medals. His Olympic gold and bronze medalists include Lesley Bush, Kenneth Sitzberger, Mark Lenzi (twice), Cynthia Potter, Win Young, and Jim Henry. Billingsley later established the World Diving Coaches Association in 1968 and the American Coaches Diving Association two years later.
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