The Forest City Diving Club is one of the premiere instructional and competitive dive clubs in Canada, based at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre in London, Ontario.

We are a fully accredited member of Diving Plongeon Canada ("DPC") and its provincial arm, Dive Ontario.

We are committed to doing our part to realize the DPC goal of making Canada the greatest diving nation in the World. As well, we have adopted and all of our members are subject to all of the DPC Policies.

In 2008, The Forest City Diving Club ranked third in all of Canada at the Jr. National Diving Championships and has been among the top 10 clubs in Canada at both the Junior and Senior National Championships for several years running.

We are very proud of the fact that our head coach, Ioana Marinescu, and two of our divers, Celina Toth and Austin Mix, won gold medals at the Speedo Jr. National Championships and were selected to the national team to represent Canada at the Jr. World Championships in Aachen, Germany in September, 2008. In addition, virtually 100% of our competitive divers qualified to compete at the national championships - of the 10 that attended, 8 made it to the finals.

On a provincial level, in 2008, the Forest City Diving Club again dominated the medal podium and won the overall team award at the Ontario Provincial Diving Championships - while 5 Forest City divers were named outstanding diver in their respective age groups.

We have hosted some of the highest profile diving competitions in the country. For example, in 2003 we hosted the largest (and many would say the best) Junior National Diving Championships ever. In 2005, we hosted world champions Alexandre Despatie and Blythe Hartley at the Summer National Championships and World Championship Trials. We are committed to bringing even bigger and better diving competitions to our city.

Much of our success is due to our coaches' passion for the sport of diving and their dedication to the development of high performance athletes.

Our Head Coach is Ioana Marinescu. Ioana is a former Olympic and World Championship diver, hailing from the eastern bloc country of Romania, where she was the national champion for 7 years running. Ioana placed 9th at the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona (10 Metre tower).

For new members of the Competitive Teams, the coaches will meet with the diver's parents to establish an appropriate dryland and pool training schedule, bearing in mind factors such as the diver's age, schooling and commitment to the sport. Competitive divers will generally train between 3 and 6 days per week.