Coach Nikki Kelsey Named 2025 Recipient of the Hobie Billingsley Award

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona. – Associate Head Coach and Head Diving Coach Nikki Kelsey has been honored with the 2025 Hobie Billingsley Award for Exceptional Communication and Relationship Building.

Named for the legendary Indiana University diving coach, the Hobie Billingsley Award acknowledges coaches who display excellent communication, mentorship, and optimistic relationship constructing inside the diving group. The award pays tribute to Billingsley’s lifelong dedication to serving to develop and mentor different coaches.

To be thought-about for this nationwide honor, recipients should be members in good standing of the U.S. Professional Diving Coaches Association (PDCA), have served the game of diving for at the very least ten years, and have proven a constant dedication to collaboration, management, and mentorship.

Reflecting on the popularity, Coach Kelsey shared:

“I was very surprised. Hobie Billingsley is a very dear person in my heart. There are a lot of legendary coaches out there and he is one of them. The fact that people thought I should receive this award and that I am giving back to the diving community like he did really makes me feel honored, grateful and a little bit in awe. I am very excited about that award.”

Coach Kelsey joins an completed group of previous honorees, together with Adam Soldati (2024) and Andy Serie (2023), whose work continues to form the subsequent era of diving coaches and athletes.

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