Diving

Information Packet

July 14–18, 2008
Boys and Girls, Ages 12–18
Intermediate and Advanced

Enjoy exceptional training with BYU head coach Keith Russell and guest coaches! Receive top instruction and feedback during five days of great diving. If you are a high school or junior high school diver interested in improving your skills and increasing your competitive standing, this camp will give you invaluable training!

Pool Analysis includes instruction, repetitive drills, technical demonstrations, and coach feedback. Whether you are learning the mechanics of correct form or perfecting your individual style, you will receive instruction and individual critiques with each dive.

Class time includes the theories behind correct diving form, instruction in competitive strategies, training film analysis, and on-site videotape evaluation. Gain the winning edge as you review proven competitive strategies and nationally recognized training techniques. Personal assessment of an in-camp training video will give firsthand feedback concerning your diving strengths and weaknesses.

At the conclusion of camp a diving exhibition will give you the chance to practice newly developed skills and display proficient techniques with other skilled contenders.

Enroll now for a week of exciting camp training. Do not miss BYU Diving Camp 2008!

Director
Coach Keith Russell is quickly asserting himself as a prominent coach in the diving community. As a rookie coach in 1993, he helped Vanessa Thelin and Valerie Blau earn All-American status at the NCAA Championships. He followed that success by coaching Thelin to the 1994 NCAA title on the one-meter springboard.

The success has paid off as Russell has won the MWC Diving Coach of the Year award the last three seasons. It marked the fifth time Russell has been honored as the conference’s best diving coach, and it came for the fifth consecutive season. Russell has coached Devan Porter, Justin Wilcock, and his own son, Aaron, to conference titles. He also guided Rachelle Kunkel to two conference titles and a sixth-place national finish on the 1M board and a first-place finish at the U.S. Diving Nationals on the 1M board two years ago. He was named diving coach for the 1999 U.S. squad at the World Student University Games as well.

A native of Mesa, Arizona, Russell won the 1968 NCAA three-meter diving championships while attending Arizona State University. He was later selected for the 1968 U.S. Olympic Games Diving Team.

Benefits

• Learn the mechanics of correct diving form from BYU head coach Keith Russell.
• Improve your individual style and diving strengths.
• Learn competitive strategies and motivational techniques.
• Increase your winning capacity through feedback from guest coaches.
• Improve form through training film analysis.
• Gain the winning edge using competitive psychological training.
• Increase performance through repeat drills.
• Apply skills on a competitive level during the closing exhibition.

Special Features

• Excellent BYU facilities (including a dry-land board)
• Instruction and feedback
• Sound fundamentals
• Post training videos
• Group videotape analysis
• Classroom theory
• Competitions
• Closing diving exhibition
• Camp T-shirt and Sami towel
• Great campus recreation for housing participants
• All-you-can-eat cafeteria meals:
  • breakfast, lunch, and dinner for housing participants
  • lunch for nonhousing participants

Tuition
Camp Package (lunch included): $289 ($25 nonrefundable)
Camp Package with Campus Housing: $379 ($25 nonrefundable)

Three convenient ways to register: Check Space Availability.

1. Online: This is definitely the quickest method!
   
   

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2. By phone: Call (801) 422-4851. Phone registration will be open between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
3. In person: Harman Continuing Education Building lobby at BYU between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.

Registration Notes

• A full refund (minus $25 nonrefundable) will be granted to all cancellations requested by 5:00 p.m. Monday, July 7 (one week before camp begins). No refunds will be given after this deadline.
• Full tuition is due at the time of registration. No deposits will be accepted.
• Information packets with updated check-in times will be available on our Web site six to eight weeks before camp begins.