Jack Stewart (diver)

Jack Stewart is a former diving representative from New Zealand.

Jack Stewart

Sport
Sport	Diving
Medal record Representing New Zealand British Empire Games 1950 Auckland 1 m Springboard 1954 Vancouver 1 m Springboard

At the 1950 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the men's 1 m springboard event. Four years later at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he won another bronze medal again in the men's 1 m springboard.

Stewart also became a beloved coach of the Gainesville Recreation Department diving team in Gainesville, Fla., in the late 1960s. His diving team practiced and competed at the Spurgeon Cherry Aquatic Center in Gainesville, which featured an Olympic-caliber diving facility featuring two 3-meter and two 1-meter springboards, along with a 10-meter platform. Divers competing for Coach Stewart included former University of Florida divers Bob Link and Boonie Brill, a former University of Florida cheerleader, Donna Ellenson, and talented high school student Jenny Evans. The youngest member of the team was Doug Carlson, who won two state of Florida titles at the Justus Aquatic Center in Orlando in both 1-meter and 3-meter competition, along with winning both of those titles at a statewide competition in Moultrie, Ga. Stewart was known as a fiery, passionate and demonstrative coach who could both verbally chastise his team members and make them feel motivated and appreciated. His team members universally respected Coach Stewart, but he mysteriously resigned from the program sometime around 1973 after a meeting with his supervisor, Bill Harlan. Harlan was a longtime coach of the University of Florida men's and women's swimming and diving teams. Stewart's GRD Diving Team won dozens of individual titles, including when performing against the Dick Kimball-coached Brandon (Fla.) Swim Club. Kimball is a noted former Olympian and coach of the University of Michigan diving team. Among the titles won by Stewart's team were AAU South Region championships by both Link and Carlson, both of whom qualified to go on and compete in the AAU national diving meet in Los Angeles. Infobox sportsperson