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Air Force Veteran Micki King | Kentucky Life | KET

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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2014 · News & Politics

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For Micki King, it's all about pushing onward and breaking barriers.

King was a diver at a time when the University of Michigan didn't have a women's diving team, so she trained under the men's coach. Excelling in the sport, she was expected to take a medal in the 1968 Olympics. However, she broke her arm in a dive and lost out. Undeterred, she came back to win a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics.

After her Olympic win, she was assigned to the Air Force Academy, which was all male at the time. She was the first woman to hold a faculty position at a U.S. military academy and the only female to coach a male athlete to an NCAA championship. She went on to coach Air Force divers to four national titles and was twice named NCAA Division II Coach of the Year. She retired with the rank of colonel.

In 1992 Micki King became assistant athletic director and senior women's administrator at the University of Kentucky, where she remained for 14 years. Today, she continues to give back both to her sport and her adopted hometown of Lexington.

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