Patrick Jeffrey
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| Born | June 25, 1965 Madison, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Event | Platform diving | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | Ohio State University 1988 | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Morningside Diving Association | |||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Vince Panzano (OSU) Jim Stillson (Morningside) | |||||||||||||||||
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Patrick S. Jeffrey (born June 24, 1965) is a retired diver from the United States who competed for Ohio State University and participated in Platform diving for the U.S. team in the 1988 and 1996 Olympics. Excelling as a coach, he would later coach diving at Florida State from 1999 to 2014, at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at Stanford University after 2014.
Jeffrey began diving around the age of 12 as a sixth-grade student. As a High School athlete, he swam for both Madison High School and the Morningside Diving Association of New York where he was trained and mentored by Coach Jim Stillson. Stillson was a former OSU diver, who was the diving coach at Columbia University while mentoring Jeffrey, and later at Southern Methodist University.