Patrick Jeffrey Athlete

Patrick S. Jeffrey (born June 25, 1965) is a retired diver from the United States. As a college athlete on the Ohio State University swimming & diving team, swept the three diving events (one-meter, three-meter and platform) at the Big Ten championship his senior year and was named conference Diver of the Year. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics, in 1988 and 1996. During the 1996, he was already out and performed as an openly gay athlete. His best result was a ninth place in the Men's 10m Platform event in Atlanta, Georgia (1996). Jeffrey twice won a bronze medal in the same event at the Pan American Games, in 1991 and 1995. Since 1999 he has been the diving coach at Florida State University, and under his guidance they have dominated the Atlantic Coast Conference in that sport.