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Krista Wilson Klein - Team Coach
 Krista
Is the head coach and founder of the G.C. Diving team.
Established in 1994, the team has evolved from a simple
learn-to-dive program, to one of the fastest growing
competitive diving organizations in the country. The growth
came through strategic decisions to expand summer lessons,
add a 3 meter springboard, and develop trampoline and
dryland conditioning. With this full array of training
tools, G.C. Diving is positioned to produce Nationally
recognized divers with the goal of college scholarships
and Olympic Dreams. Several G.C. Divers have already
qualified for Winter and Summer Junior Olympic National
Competitions and are Nationally ranked.
Krista began her own diving career at
the age of seven. Coached by her mother Ida, she won the
Junior Olympic National Age Groups Championships three times
and was World International Age Group Silver Medalist two
times. In her senior diving career, Krista attended Southern
Methodist University on full scholarship. Under SMU coach
Jim Stillson, she won six Southwest Conference
Championships, was college All-American and won the NCAA
Championships twice. As a three-time U.S. Senior National
Champion, and member of the United States National Diving
Team from 1988 to 1994, she represented the United States in
Diving competitions around the world including trips to:
Spain, Mexico, China, Russia, England, Canada, Australia and
Germany.
In addition, some of the honors Krista
has received include:
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1991 NCAA Diver of the Year Award
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1990 and 1991 Dallas All Sports
Association Champions Award
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1990 and 1991 SWC Scholar/Athlete
award
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1991 GTE Scholar/Athlete award
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1991 Southwestern Methodist
University Scholar/Athlete award
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1991 Texas woman of the year award
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1991 NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship
award
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1992 Who's Sam Award - exemplifying
Integrity, Sportsmanship and high Moral Character
Krista enjoys the strong support of her
husband, Jeff, and her four children, Regan Lee, Bryce,
Carson, and Reid. Krista met Jeff at SMU, where he competed
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Jeff Bro - Team Coach
 In
August 2003, former Nebraska diver Jefferson Bro decided to
leave his position asinterim coach of the Huskers dive team
to join Krista Klein and the GC Divers team.
A 1991 graduate of Lincoln Southeast
High School, Bro was a four-year letter winner for the
Huskers from 1992 until 1995. Bro graduated from the
University with a double-major in political science and
history.
While at Nebraska, Bro helped the
Huskers to three consecutive Big Eight titles from 1992
until 1994. In 1992, Bro finished seventh on both the one
and the three-meter springboards. At the 1995 Big Eight
Championships, Bro took home the bronze medal in the
three-meter springboard with a score of 497.60 and was fifth
in the one-meter with a score of 436.20. Bro also qualified
for the 1995 NCAA Zone D Diving meet.
During his time with the Husker divers,
Bro also worked with the Nebraska Aquatics Diving Club with
divers from age 10 to age 17. Bro worked with the club since
1995 and has sent many divers to regional and national
competitions.
Before being named the Husker's interim
diving coach, Bro worked for the Nebraska Department of
Revenue serving as an aide in the Nebraska State
Legislature. Bro was responsible for writing and keeping
fiscal notes for the various bills that were passed through
the Legislature. Bro also did research for the Nebraska Tax
Research Council, and had articles published in newsletters. |
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Ida Wilson - Team
Coach
Ida has been coaching for many years
and is very proud of having created the Crown Valley Diving
team in Southern California. The Crown Valley Diving team
has become one of the outstanding age group teams in the
nation and is now coached by her son Curt Wilson., himself a
champion diver. Ida also formed the "Fight Smog Jog" running
club which grew to 175 runners. Their running goal was to
run in the Palos Verdes Marathon. Ida ran and competed in
the P.V. Marathon (26 miles, 385 yards) six times.
Ida has competed in the Masters diving
program since 1976 and has won 23 masters Nationals Diving
Championships and won the 1990 Pan Pacific International
Masters Games. She was the coach of the International Age
Group team of the United States in 1989. Ida was on the
staff of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the 1988
Olympic Games in Seoul South Korea.
As a result of Ida’s experience and
“know how” she was asked to be the Chairperson of the United
States Diving Grassroots program. She has been instrumental
in all phases of developmental diving and has trained divers
at all levels.
Ida had special coaching training under
Olympic Coaches, Glenn McCormick, Dick Kimball, and Dr.
Sammy Lee. She has been part of the United States Diving
“Mentor” program, a program to develop new and advanced
techniques in diving. During her coaching career Ida has
trained 14 divers who received scholarships for diving to
various Universities and the Air Force Academy. Ida has been
part of the GCDivers program since 1996 and continues to
enjoy that roll along with daughter Krista and son Kevin. |
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Gregg Brody - Team
Coach
Gregg graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in Sport Administration from Ball State University in
Muncie Indiana. While at Ball State he was a member of both
the diving team and the baseball team. Aside from competing,
Gregg worked as the public address announcer for numerous
sports at BSU. After his diving career, Gregg stayed at
Ball State for graduate school and worked fulltime in the
athletic ticket office and helped coach the diving team.
Since leaving school Gregg has continued to work in the
sports profession, having worked for minor league hockey,
Texas Motor Speedway, and currently for the EDS Byron Nelson
Championship. Gregg has been a substitute coach with CG
Divers for the past two years.
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Luke Bagnaschi- Team
Coach
Luke has been coaching high school,
AAU and US Diving for the past five years and has coached
multiple Massachusetts state champions and multiple other
athletes in the top 10 at the state level. Luke comes
to GCISD from Lowell, Massachusetts, where he coached six
high schools throughout the year, a club dive team, a
masters swim team and a high school swim team. Luke
has also coached summer league diving for nine years and
three years of diving lessons for Boston Area Diving.
Luke dove for The University of Redlands in California where
he was a four year undefeated conference Champion, the
Southern California Interscholastic Athletic Conference
Athlete of The Year, and an All-American athlete and still
holds records there. Luke is a certified US
Diving coach and AAU coach. He is extremely
enthusiastic about working at GCISD and coaching the divers.
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April Long - Team Coach |
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