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Coaching Staff 
Diving Coach Donna O'Brien
Since 1983 O'Brien has been the girls diving coach at Palatine High School, where she directed athletes to 36 Illinois High School Association (IHSA) State Meet appearances, nine trips to the state finals, two National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association All-American performances, 46 appearances in the Mid-Suburban League finals, and a pair of league championships. She has also been coaching at the Windy City Diving Club in Lincolnshire, Illinois, since 1997. O'Brien was named IHSA Diving Coach of the Year in 2002 and has served as a diving judge at the state meet several times. O'Brien also coached the divers for four seasons at Harper College, where her athletes made several appearances at the National Junior College Athletic Association meet and claimed a national title. Among her other coaching and instructing experience are 10 years at the Schaumburg Diving Academy and stints with the Palatine Park District, and Inverness Country Club. O'Brien graduated from Iowa State University in 1983 after making three appearances at the national meet. She placed among the top three at the Big Eight Conference Championship Meet in one or both diving events each of her four seasons on the team. She was also a four-year diver and gymnast at Arlington High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and reached the state meet in diving four times.
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The 2009-10 season will be the second for Donna O'Brien as the Foresters' diving coach.