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Hobie Billingsley, Coach of a Diving Dynasty, Dies at 95

NY Times | July 18, 2022

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A national champion diver himself, he led Indiana University to glory over 31 years and in the Olympics guided gold medal winners.

Hobie Billingsley in 1963, when he was coaching Indiana University’s diving team. “In his coaching, the superscientific Billingsley speaks about linear motion, transitory motion and double-axis displacement,” Sports Ilustrated wrote. Credit...Aqua Follies

Hobie Billingsley, who taught himself to dive from charts on the wall of a Y.M.C.A. before becoming a national champion in the sport and then a celebrated coach, forging a national diving dynasty at Indiana University and gold medal winners in the Olympics, died on Saturday.

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