Scott Donie
Scott Richard Donie was a former American diver for Southern Methodist University, a silver medalist in 10m platform diving in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and participated in springboard diving in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, placing fourth. He later became an accomplished head diving coach for New York University and then Columbia University.
He was born in Vicenza, Italy, on October 10, 1968, while his father served with the U.S. Army, and dove on a local summer swim team once his family moved to New Jersey. While commuting from the New Jersey area, Donie was fortunate to be mentored by Coach Jim Stillson at New York's Columbia University on his age group team, the Morningside Divers. When Donie was 12, his family made the move to Texas and Scott began diving with Terry Faulkenberry's Woodlands Diving Team. This greatly improved his diving and expanded his ambitions as a diver.
Moving again, by his Senior Year in High School, Donie lived in Boca Raton, Florida and attended Spanish River Community High School where in April, 1986 he was the high point scorer in platform diving, his signature event, in the preliminaries of the U.S. Diving National Indoor Championships. While in the Boca Raton Area, Donie dove and trained with the Mission Bay Makos Swimming and Diving Team where he was managed by Hall of Fame Coach Ron O'Brien. Donie was selected for the National American High School Team all four years and was a national champion twice. In later years, Donie trained in the Fort Lauderdale area, and with Florida's Miami Diving.
Diving for SMU
Donie swam for Southern Methodist University from 1987-1990, and was the recipient of All American honors from 1987-1989. He is a six-time age Group National Diving Champion and a two-time National Senior Champion. He received a bachelor's degree from SMU in 1990, where as a swimmer he was an eleven-time Southwest Conference Diving Champion and a National NCAA Division I Champion three times. At SMU, he again swam for accomplished coach Jim Stillson, a former Ohio State University All-American diver and diving coach at Columbia.Donie was a member of the US National Diving team during his time at SMU, and beyond, from 1985 through 1996. He was a national U.S. diving champion eleven times.