Olympian medal winner Krysta Palmer homecoming celebration happening Sunday in Minden
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 11:20am
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August 8, 2021 - 4:00pm Cheering for Krysta is proud to announce a Homecoming Celebration this Sunday at the Carson Valley Swim Center in Minden for Krysta Palmer, local Olympian and bronze medalist.
After a successful debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the community that has supported her and followed her journey throughout her career welcomes her home from Tokyo.
The Homecoming celebration will be sponsored by and held at the Carson Valley Swim Center, 1600 Highway 88, Minden this coming Sunday, August 8, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Replays of Krysta’s historic performances will be played while Krysta’s success is celebrated. Refreshments will be served. Note – Masks are required to participate in this event.
Krysta Palmer is our home-grown local girl, born and raised in Carson City, Nevada. She started training in gymnastics at the age of five supported by her local community of Gardnerville, NV. She then developed a love for trampoline and revised her goals. After injuries in both sports, her competitive career almost ended. However, a friend suggested she try diving.
Krysta graduated from Douglas High School in 2010 and later from University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology.
She enjoyed a successful record-breaking college dive career leading to her first Olympic Trials in 2016. Since graduation, she has been a volunteer assistant dive coach at UNR. Her dream has always been to participate in the Olympic Games.
After two months in the diving club, Palmer was asked to be on the UNR diving team by coach Jian Li You, who also made history in Tokyo as the first female coach named as a Team USA Olympic coach. Krysta trained for nine years prior to competing in the Olympics. Krysta Palmer is a Nevada Olympian and bronze medalist who made history at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
— First American woman to win Olympic bronze in the individual 3-meter springboard event since 1988.
— First American woman to win a medal in an individual diving event since 2000.
— With partner Alison Gibson, first Women's 3-Meter Synchro team to do a double-out at the Olympic Games, the first to do a 3.4 degree of difficulty dive AND the first to do the highest competed degree of difficulty since Women's 3m Synchro was added in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
