Summer Diving Senior Nationals – Championnats nationaux senior d’été de plongeon- PEPS de l’Universite Laval (Alexandre Despatie, Emilie Heymans)

My favourite Olympic sport has always been diving...I’ve always told myself that one day I would sit in the stands and watch a competition “live”. Yesterday, on the Twitter wire the Nationals were announced via Quoifairequebec.com and my afternoon was pretty much set from there.


I was like a kid in a candy store ! Here are a few of my favourite images. The complete gallery can be viewed here.


Alexandre Despatie, Silver in Beijing and Silver in 2004 in Athens on the 3m not to mention his 37 national titles.

Alexandre Despatie and Reuben Ross syncro diving.

Emilie Heymans, 3 time Olympic medalist.

Demis Longoni and Olivier Morneau-Ricard from the Rouge et Or diving club.

A little side story that I’ll share : Never be afraid to go ahead and ask !

A young lady came up to me (I must have looked official or something) and asked me what was the best way to get an autograph of Alexandre Despatie. Hummm. Since I was terribly close to the VIP section, I asked an "even more official looking" person if he could possible get Alexandre’s signature on her program. No problem he said ! A few mins later he came back with a signed program. The girl was ecstatic. I found out later that she had drove from New Brunswick to come see the competition.

Also, a special thanks to Luc Ricard who was more than generous, giving me the opportunity to capture some underwater images