Janet Gabriel is an accomplished diver from Indiana, where she trained under legendary Indiana University diving coach Hobie Billingsley. Janet had numerous diving achievements collegiately and internationally before starting her career as a diving and gymnastics coach with Pauline Barr at Hockaday School in Dallas. When the Texas Swimming Center (TSC) was completed, Janet was hired to coach the Longhorn Aquatics Age Group Diving Club from 1977-1986. She coached many champion divers there including Jason Rhodes and Sherrie Wiggington. She coached her age group team to 10 Texas Age Group State Team Championships and was voted Texas Age Group Coach of the Year in 1986. During the Olympic Trials, which were held at the TSC in 1980, Janet filmed divers entries both above and below water for her master’s thesis, which was titled Biomechanical Analysis of the Rip Entry in Competitive Entry. Over the decades, Janet wrote a multitude of essays, research reports, articles, manuals and scientific studies all to further the sport of diving. She worked on two post-1996 Olympics projects, the Technoscience Seminar for Coaches (1997) and Behavior Modeling facilitator training. She was the project director for the Biomechanics of Competitive Diving, authored by Doris I Miller, Ph.D., and from 2003-08 Janet was an independent contractor for USA Diving. Janet served on the Performance Enhancement Team (PET) under USA Diving’s High-Performance Director, Ron O’Brien and worked with the PET bio mechanists to video tape and analyze athletes’ performances in preparation for the Olympic Games. Janet was presented with an Olympic ring in appreciation for her accuracy in predicting spot-on the Olympic Medal winning point totals. She has been the head diving coach at the Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale since 2008. Janet has one daughter, Maya Carroll, a graduate of the Pine Crest School, Florida State University-BFA-Graphic Design, and FAU-MS-Information Technology. Her work continues to be referenced to this very day, and her contributions to Texas diving will be everlasting.