Patrick Jeffrey
	Position: Head Diving Coach Experience: 12th Season Alma Mater: Ohio State, 1988

Ohio State Hall of Fame, 2005

To mold a championship diver it takes a true champion, and Florida State's Patrick Jeffrey certainly fits that bill. A three-time NCAA Champion and two-time Olympian, Jeffrey was inducted into the Ohio State University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. Entering his 11th year in Tallahassee, his experience has helped Florida State divers re-write the ACC and Seminole record books year after year.

After a record breaking season in 2008, the Seminole divers once again took their performance to another level in 2009. Terry Horner became the most decorated diver in Florida State history earning All-America honors on the three-meter and Honorable Mention All-America status on the one-meter, adding to his previous four All-America awards. Jeffery also helped lead the divers to an ACC Championship, guiding Dan Frebel to his first career title on the platform and five All-ACC honors at the ACC Championships. In all, the FSU divers broke three school records in 2009.

Jeffrey has also helped usher in a new era in international competition for the Garnet and Gold with Horner earning a place on the 2009 World Championship team. Horner earned a 16th place finish in the one-meter competition. Horner also finished second in the one-meter at the USA Diving National Championships later in the summer of 2009 and seventh in the three-meter.

The 2008 season was business as usual for Florida State divers with three All-American performances, four All-ACC results and two ACC championships. On the men's side, Jeffrey's four divers earned 10 top-eight finishes at the ACC Championships led by a pair of victories by Horner (one-meter, three-meter) and a pair of second place finishes by Frebel (three-meter, platform). The women also held their own at the ACC Championships with the team's four divers earning points in 11 of 12 opportunities. At the NCAA meet, Horner once again earned All-America honors with a third-place finish on the one-meter and Honorable Mention All-America honors on the three-meter. Aleia Monden also earned her first career Honorable Mention All-America honor on the platform.

Jeffrey's divers now have a total of 15 All-America certificates during his time at FSU. Jeffrey's divers made a significant statement at the USA Diving National Championships in 2008 where Horner captured the National Title on the one-meter and placed third on the three-meter. Frebel finished in seventh place in the platform dive, while he and teammate Scott Derner took home fourth-place honors in the men's three-meter synchronized competition solidifying the men's team's third-place finish at Nationals. On the women's side Monden placed third with her partner in the platform synchronized competition.

Since Jeffrey's arrival in 1999, he has not only put Florida State Diving on the map, he has set the standard for diving in the entire conference. Seminole divers have captured 19 of the 42 ACC championships on the boards during Jeffrey's tenure. Under his guidance, Florida State has claimed at least one conference title on the men's side in six of the past 10 seasons and the school's four-straight championships on the one-meter and three more on the three-meter have not been equaled in nearly 20 years. Additionally, 12 of Jefffrey's divers have earned All-ACC honors and over the last 10 seasons, Florida State divers have claimed four Women's ACC Divers of the Meet awards, three Men's ACC Diver of the Meet honors as well as a Women's ACC Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Year accolade.

In the past four years alone, eight of the 10 FSU diving records have been broken, including new marks by Horner (one-meter, three-meter) and Frebel (platform)during the 2008-2009 season. The only records not owned by Jeffrey's divers are from All-Americans Paul Spray and Wendy Fuller which will stand forever because of event format changes.

Jeffrey's coaching accolades also stretch internationally. On the world stage, he most recently was a member of the USA Diving coaching staff at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy where he coached Horner. In 2007, Jeffrey was a member of the United States World University Games staff where he coached two of his own student-athletes, Horner and Frebel. He was on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team coaching staff along with the 1997 and 1999 US Senior World Cup staff. He also coached the 2001 U.S. World Championship team in Fukioka, Japan. He has served as a Senior National team coach from 1997-2000 with a one year stint (1998) as a coach of the Junior National Team. Under Jeffrey's tutelage, divers have won five U.S. Senior National titles, three Junior National championships, and a pair of third place finishes for the Senior Men's team in US national competition.

Jeffrey's wealth of diving knowledge is a direct result of his own career. A seven-time All-American, he highlighted his tenure at Ohio State with a tremendous senior season in 1988. He became the first, and still only, diver in NCAA history to sweep all three diving events with championships on the one-meter, three-meter and platform, earning him 1988 NCAA Diver of the Year honors. Leading up to those NCAA Championships, he swept the Big Ten Conference meet as well and was honored with 1988 Big Ten Diver of the Year.

On the international scene, Jeffrey was a finalist on the ten-meter platform at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. He is a five-time U.S. National Diving Champion splitting those championships between disciplines with three in the ten-meter platform event while holding a pair of titles in the three-meter springboard event. He was also the U.S. Olympic trials Champion on platform in 1996. In addition, he won bronze medals at the 1991 and 1995 Pan-Am games. He competed as a member of the U.S. squad at the 1989 and 1995 World Cup as well as at the 1993 Goodwill Games.

General Information

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