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Nikki Kelsey
Nikki Kelsey

Experience:
1996 Inductee
Sport:
Diving 1987-90



Nikki Kelsey made a very big splash on the Oakland University athletic scene by making a very little splash when she entered the pool. Nikki was a two-time NCAA II Women's Diver of the Year and was a member of OU's first women's swimming and diving national championship.

Nikki won her first of two Diver of the Year Awards in 1989, placing first on the one-meter board and second Diver of the Year honor, placing first on the three-meter board and second on the one-meter. Her three-meter title was the first in school history. She was also selected GLIAC Women's Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Year in 1990. In all Nikki won seven of a possible eight All-American honors.

Nikki still holds school records for the highest six-dive score on both the one-meter and three-meter boards. She also retains the GLIAC record for highest score in the one-meter event.

After she finished her four years at Oakland, earning a bachelor of arts degree in general studies, Nikki coached the OU divers for three seasons. Nikki was the OU diving coach for three women's national championships and for the long-awaited men's championship in 1994. That season she was selected as the NCAA Division II Men's Diving Coach of the Year.

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