Duke Diving Camps Staff

  Drew Johansen: U.S. Elite Diving Academy founder and National Team coach Drew Johansen is now in his third season as the Blue Devils diving coach.
       
In just his second year at Duke, Johansen took the Blue Devils to new heights in 2008-09. A total of five men and women, four of them freshmen, qualified for and competed at the NCAA Zones Diving Championships. The standing school records in four of six total diving events were broken and re-broken over the course of the year. But most impressive of his accomplishments last year was directing freshman Abby Johnston to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships where she garnered All-America honors on the three-meter board.
       
During the 2007-08 campaign, Johansen’s first at Duke, diver Julie Brummond received All-ACC honors for her performance on the three-meter board at the 2008 ACC Championships. She reached the finals on both springboards and on the platform at the NCAA Zone B Diving Championships under Johansen’s leadership.
   
However, his greatest accomplishments at Duke seem yet to come. The Blue Devils have added freshman Nick McCrory to their roster, whom many consider among the top-three divers in the nation regardless of age. Johansen will have the task of further developing McCrory’s talent as he pursues his collegiate and international diving aspirations.
       
A former member of the U.S. Diving National Team, Johansen brings a wealth of skills to the Duke program, as he has had a variety of experience at the club, collegiate, and national levels. He has served as a U.S. National Team coach for six years and also coached the U.S. Diving World Championship team in 2005 and U.S. Diving Junior World Team in 2002. He founded the U.S. Elite Diving Academy in Columbus , Ohio , in 2001, and it quickly developed into the nation’s top junior and senior program, winning the U.S. Diving Junior Team title in 2005 and Senior Team title in 2006.
         
Johansen’s NCAA experience includes head coaching stints at Illinois State University and Florida Atlantic University , as he received conference coach of the year accolades four times at FAU. During the 1992-93 campaign at FAU, Johansen coached four All-America selections, three honorable mention All-America picks and a three-meter national champion. He has also served as a volunteer assistant at Ohio State University .
         
Johansen has received numerous coaching accolades, as he was the recipient of the USA Diving Award of Excellence and was named USA Diving Coach of the Year in 2006. Other career accolades include Junior Coach of the Year (2002 and 2004) and U.S. Olympic Committee Finalist Developmental Coach of the Year (2004).

Jenny Keim Johansen:. Jenny embarks on her second year as North Carolina State University's head diving coach in the 2009-10 season after joining the staff in August of 2008. A two-time Olympian and former NCAA champion, she came to Raleigh after serving as the assistant diving coach at nearby Duke.

Johansen certainly had a huge impact on the program during her first season in Raleigh , as Kristin Davies collected the first national championship in diving in school history by taking the platform dive crown at the NCAA Championships. Davies, an All- America and two-time All-ACC performer, was also named ACC Women’s Diver of the Year and ACC Swimming and Diving Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2009.

Keim Johansen graduated cum laude with a B.A. in political science and a minor in criminology from Miami in 2002. While in Coral Gables she won the NCAA championship on the 3-meter board and platform in 1999 and 2000, and was a three-time All-America selection for the Hurricanes from 1998-2000 and will be inducted to the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame this spring.   She also represented the United States at the Olympics in both 1996 and 2000 on the 3-Meter Individual and 10-Meter Synchronized events.

After diving Jenny began coaching the Liberty Diving Team in 2005 and in 2006 Liberty Diving place 6^th as a men’s team at the Junior Nationals. Jenny is currently US Diving’s representative on the Athletes Advisory Counsel for the United States Olympic Committee and a member of USA Diving’s Board of Directors.   Jenny brings us a wealth of knowledge and experience in Diving and Gymnastics. Before diving Jenny was an elite level gymnast for Bela Karolyi.

Luther (Beau) Bunn: Beau was born and raised in Raleigh, NC. He began diving when he was 8 at Brentwood swim club  In 1992 Beau joined the diving team as a freshman at Millbrook High School in Raleigh where he dove and lettered 3 years, placing as high as 5^th in the state during his senior year.

After high school Beau went on to dive at UNCW under Marc Ellington. As a walk on freshman he was CAA rookie of the year and finished 2^nd on both boards at conference. As a sophomore Beau was named CAA diver of the year and placed 2nd on 1 meter and 1st on 3 meter. As a junior Beau went undefeated in conference, again taking CAA diver of the year honors, winning both 1 and 3 meter boards. As a senior Beau placed 2^nd on both 1 and 3 meter at CAA championships and was named to the all ECAC team. In addition, Beau was named outstanding male diver at UNCW four consecutive years. Beau graduated from UNCW in 1999 with a degree in Physical Education.

Over the past 10 years Beau has coach many summer league age group teams in Raleigh including Wood Valley and Northbrook. He was head diving coach for 4 Wake County Schools in 2007, coaching over 30 high school divers. Beau is married (wife April) and has 2 boys (Jason and Nathan) and 2 dogs (Dudley and Bailey)

Duke Diving Coach
US National Team Coach
Drew Johansen

NC State Diving Coach
2x US Olympic Diver
Jenny Keim Johansen

ASD Diving Coach
Assistaant Duke Diving
Luther (Beau) Bunn