Nevada’s Jian Li You a hidden gem for diving

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada Diving Head Coach Jian Li You latterly gained Mountain West Diving Coach of the 12 months for the seventh time. This marks her tenth time profitable a coach of the yr award with Nevada.

You has been with Nevada for greater than 26 years and has credited her divers for the accolades she’s gotten, even saying they deserve an award extra.

“I believe my divers deserve it greater than I do,” stated Coach You. “The diver of the yr, like Laura Isabella, however I’m proud. This award means lots this yr.”

The 2021-22 diving season noticed 5 divers from Nevada qualify for the championship closing of the 1-meter, the primary time that’s ever occurred within the Mountain West.

“No staff has 5 divers within the high 8. So I’m very glad after I hear that,” stated Coach You. “Normally I don’t care about that a lot, however this yr it means lots to me.”

The accolades Coach You has acquired all through her teaching profession don’t cease with Nevada. She additionally made historical past, together with one in every of her most well-known pupils, throughout final yr’s Summer season Olympics in Tokyo.

“She was the primary lady U.S.A. diving coach at an Olympic video games in historical past,” stated native Olympian Krysta Palmer. “So she was in a position to make historical past there and I additionally then had made historical past for being the primary lady to qualify in particular person 3 meter and in addition in synchronized 3 meter. We’re just a little energy duo.”

Palmer says Coach You has change into a lot greater than only a coach to her.

“She’s taken me from being a stroll on pupil athlete all the best way to being an Olympic Bronze medalist, so we’ve developed a great friendship, a great coach-athlete relationship, and she or he’s actually simply been a Mother to me all through my entire journey.”

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