Edwin Young

Edwin Frank "Win" Young (September 29, 1947June 22, 2006) was an American diver who swam for Indiana University and represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where he won a bronze medal in 10 m platform diving. He would later coach diving at West Point and the University of Arizona.

Born in Phoenix on September 29, 1947, to Mary W. and Edwin B. Young, he grew up in the Phoenix area, and graduated Central High School in 1965. While on a walk at the age of eight, he was struck by a car and suffered a broken leg that required pins to mend. Doctors believed the injury could be debilitating, but Young took up swim training at the YMCA to recover, and soon began to enter and win meets. Coached by Hall of Fame Diving Coach Dick Smith, Young swam for the Dick Smith Swim Gym at 14 placing fourth on the 3-meter board at the Southern Arizona Open AAU Swimming Championships on June 24, 1961. Smith, who served as head diving coach at Arizona State for a decade and was a seven-time U.S. Olympic Diving Coach, had owned and operated the Dick Smith Swim Gym in Phoenix, AZ since 1954. Diverse in his diving skills, Young also practiced on the 10-meter platform in High School.

As a 16-year old Central High School Junior, he was America's top-ranked High School diver, and had a third place ranking across all age groups. After several years of training and competition, he placed third in the National AAU Diving Championships in Chicago in 1963, also placing third in Arizona Gymnastics State competition on the trampoline. Provided by Wikipedia