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| Full name | Troy Matthew Dumais | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 21, 1980 Ventura, California |
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| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 160 pounds (73 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Troy Matthew Dumais (born January 21, 1980, Ventura, California) is an Olympic diver from California. Dumais represented the United States in the 2000 Olympic Games, 2004 Olympic Games, and 2008 Olympic Games. He attended the University of Texas at Austin.
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Dumais was raised in a family of divers and swimmers, and in 1994 was named Southern Pacific Association Diver of the Year in his class, as were all his siblings.[1]
Dumais placed 6th in the 2004 Summer Games Men's 3m Synchronized Spring Board with his brother, Justin Dumais. He also placed 6th at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics competition in the Men's 3m Individuals to make his 3rd 6th place Olympic finish in a row.. Diving alongside Kristian Ipsen together they took the silver medal in the synchronized 3 metre springboard at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy.
Son of Marc and Kathleen Dumais, Troy Dumais has three brothers - Justin (born 8/13/78), Brice (born 4/23/81) and Dwight (born 6/23/86), and one sister, Leanne (born 7/2/84). His father was a professional French Canadian hockey player and tennis player. Troy Dumais previously trained under coaches Van Austin, Tom Scotty and Jeff Shaffer. Troy Dumais has also played football, hockey, tennis, basketball and baseball. During his off time Troy Dumais enjoys cars, movies, working out and hanging out with friends. His diving goals are to win a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics and win as many senior national titles as possible. Troy's later career plans are to become a physical therapist. Troy has been known to volunteer his skills with upcoming and rising divers around the Austin area. His sessions have been said to of influenced top divers across Texas strive for greatness such as Kassidy Cook (Woodlands High School/Woodlands, Texas), Amanda Largent (Woodlands High School/Woodlands, Texas), Dean Frias (Roosevelt High School/San Antonio, Texas), Bradley Christensen (Argyle Liberty School/Argyle, Texas), and other high achieving Texas divers as reported by The Daily Texan, a local Austin news paper. Troy has been diving for 23 years, trains eight hours a day, and has no favorite dives because he likes them all. Troy is known to listen to music, plays games and talks between dives during a contest .
Named USA Diving's Athlete of the Year in 2006 and 1997. Troy in 2006 received the Sullivan Award, was the recipient of the 2002 Men's All-Around Award; Troy was the 2002 NCAA Division I 1-meter and 3-meter champion, who was fifth on platform. Troy earlier received the 2001 Men's All-Around Award at Indoor Nationals, 2001 NCAA 1-meter and 3-meter champion, 2000 NCAA 3-meter and 1-meter champion, platform silver medalist, and 1999 NCAA 3-meter champion and silver medalist on 1-meter and platform. Troy currently holds the record for most junior titles with 19. Troy placed third on platform at the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Earlier in 1995, Troy became the first U.S. junior diver to win two world junior titles since 1979 with gold medals on 1- and 3-meter. Troy Dumais was four-time high school All-American and team MVP.
At the 2011 US National Championships in August, Dumais teamed with Kristian Ipsen to win the synchronized men 3-meter springboard at UCLA's Spieker Aquatics Center.[2]