The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hall of Honor
- Induction:
- 2018
- Class:
- 2018
Troy Dumais concluded his amazing 20-year career in 2016 as one of the most decorated divers in both UT and American history. He is the only four-time Olympian in Texas Swimming and Diving history and one of just two divers to ever represent the United States in four different Olympiads (joining Greg Louganis). Dumais was a bronze medalist in the three-meter synchronized springboard with teammate Kristian Ipsen at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The Ventura, California native dove for the Burnt Orange and White from 1999-2002, winning seven individual National Championships and earning four straight All-America honors, while becoming the first diver in NCAA history to win four consecutive titles in a single event (three-meter). Among his collegiate triumphs were the 1999 three-meter springboard title (won as a freshman), as well as sweeps of the 2000, 2001 and 2002 one- and three-meter springboard crowns that helped power the Longhorns to three consecutive team National Championships. Internationally, Dumais represented the U.S. in the 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics, while just missing out on an unprecedented fifth Olympic berth to the 2016 Rio Games by finishing fourth in the synchronized three-meter competition at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. In all, Dumais was a 20-time U.S. national team and eight-time World Championships team member, a three-time USA Diving Athlete of the Year (1997, 2006, 2009) and a 2006 Sullivan Award finalist. He won bronze and silver medals at both the 2005 World Championships and 2006 World Cup, silver medals in the three-meter and synchronized three-meter events at the 2009 World Championships and was a silver medalist on synchronized three-meter at the 2010 World Cup. Dumais was also a six-time Pan American Games medalist (bronze in 1999; two bronze in 2003; gold and bronze in 2007; silver in 2011) and still holds the record for the most U.S. junior individual titles with 19. A winner of a remarkable 38 U.S. national diving championships, his last national crown came at the 2014 USA Diving Winter National Championships. While his international diving career was still ongoing, he returned to the Forty Acres to earn his bachelor's degree in general kinesiology in the spring of 2006. Dumais currently lives in Dallas, Texas and is studying to be a chiropractor.
