Swimming – Diving
- Alex Baumann, 1984 medley Olympic champion
- Marilyn Bell, first person to swim Lake Ontario
- Sylvie Bernier, Canada's first gold medal in Olympic diving
- Victor Davis (1964–1989), Olympic swimming champion
- Mark Tewksbury, Olympic Gold Medal
- Alexandre Despatie, World Diving Champion
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“Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values—whether presented on television or in “real life.” The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some “high” to feel worthwhile.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)