OUR CLUB
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Kelowna Springboard Diving Club has been around for 14 years. In the beginning, it was a small club with about fifteen athletes and our founder Matt as Head Coach. Throughout the years the club has grown to be able to develop a competitive team that has qualified and gone to 6 BC games and 2 Novice Nationals!
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Our coaches
Head CoachChristina Unger
Christina has been with KSDC since day one. She was the first athlete to join the program back in 2009 and fell in love with the sport. Coming from a gymnastic background, the transition was natural for her. Over the years Christina has transitioned from an athlete to a Junior Coach to Head Coach, and she has been our Head Coach for the past 4 years. During her time as an athlete, she competed in multiple BC Games and won highest scoring dive, female in 2014. Christina is an NCCP Level 2 Certified Coach.
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COACHES
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Kaelen O'Rourke
Kaelen began diving with White Rock Divers in 2014 and has loved the sport ever since. She competed in the 2015 Novice Nationals and 2016 BC Winter Games in Penticton. Kaelen came to KSDC in 2016 and trained as a competitive athlete under Coach Christina. In 2019, Kaelen became an NCCP Level 1 Trained Coach and has only become more passionate about diving.
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Nyah Hedstrom
Nyah joined diving with a strong gymnastics background. She was in gymnastics most of her life but ended up getting injured and not being able to continue. She joined diving and instantly fell in love. She moved directly onto the competitive team where she dove for 3 years. Nyah is an NCCP Trained Introduction Coach who has been a coach for 1 year and is loving every minute of it. A highlight of her diving career was going to the 2020 BC Winter Games in Fort St. John.
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Mikayla McIntosh
Mikayla started as a gymnast but began and fell in love with diving in 2010. She became a competitive athlete with Dive Calgary in 2012, competed in competitions across Canada, and finished her career as a diver after the 2017 Junior Elite National Championships in Montreal, Quebec. With a deep passion for the sport, Mikayla became a full-time NCCP Level 1 Trained Coach for Rocky Mountain Dive Club in 2017. She continued to coach with RMDC until moving to Kelowna for university in 2021 and beginning with KSDC in 2022.
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Rachel Allen
Rachel has been a multi-sport athlete from an early age doing diving, gymnastics, volleyball, and track, to name a few. At the age of nine, she was introduced to diving with Regina Diving Club, where she steadily progressed her love for the sport. Rachel has competed in various Western Canadian meets in springboard, platform, and synchro events. When she moved to Kelowna for university, she realized how much she missed being on the board, and she joined KSDC in 2022 as a diver and sought an opportunity to coach. She completed her NCCP Level 1 training in 2023.
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SuBstitute Coach
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Anna Ruckstuhl
- NCCP Level 1 Trained Coach
- Attends UBCO for Psychology - Competitive diver in Calgary |
Norah Bellerose
- NCCP Level 1 Trained Coach
- Dove with Coach Christina for 5 years - Competed in 2019 Kamloops Novice Nationals |