Diane Dudeck (born 1963) is a former National Open Champion and three-time National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American springboard diver.
Dudeck first rose to national prominence as the one-meter springboard gold medalist at the 1981 U.S. Indoor Diving Championships.[1] Three years later, while competing for the University of Michigan, Diane was named Big Ten Conference Diver of the Year for her first-place performance on the one-meter board.[2] Later that season, Dudeck earned a spot in the finals at the National Collegiate Championships; for her efforts, Diane was selected to the 1984 NCAA All-American Team. In April 1984, Dudeck was runner-up on the one-meter board at the U.S. indoor championships; Diane was also a three-meter finalist at the 1984 US Olympic Trials.[3][4]
At the 1986 NCAA Championships, at which she competed for the University of Arkansas, Dudeck was the one-meter silver medalist; she was also a finalist on the three-meter board - resulting in a double berth to the 1986 All-American Team.[5]
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Diane Dudeck is the daughter of former Olympic springboard diver, Barbara Sue Gilders.[6] As a 19-year-old Detroit-Mackenzie High School graduate, Miss Gilders represented the United States in the finals of the three-meter event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
Diane's father, John Dudeck, was an accomplished athlete. A product of Detroit's Western High School, Dudeck swam at the collegiate level for Michigan State University. A former Big Ten Conference record holder and two-time Big Ten titlist in the 100-yard breaststroke (1953, 54); Dudeck was a nine-time All-American for the Spartans (1953–55).[7][8][9]
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- ^ "Miss Dudek, Floridian, Wins One-Meter Diving". The New York Times. 17 April 1981.
- ^ "Big Ten Conference Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- ^ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19840707&id=Fv8NAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nXwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4475,6720704 [dead link]
- ^ "Invalid Access". Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ^ "The Evening Independent - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/msu/sports/c-swim/auto_pdf/c-swim-mg-0708-section7.pdf Archived 2012-11-12 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Seibold, Jack (2003). Spartan Sports Encyclopedia: A History of the Michigan State Men's Athletic Program. Sports Publishing LLC. ISBN 9781582612195.
- ^ "Big Ten Conference Official Athletic Site". Archived from the original on 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2009-10-27.