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| **Victoria Manalo Draves**(__**Manalo** ; December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was a Filipino American competitivediverwho wongold medalsin both platform and springboard diving at the1948 Summer OlympicsinLondon.[3]Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard.[4]Additionally, Draves became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the firstAsian Americanto win Olympic gold medals.[5][6]She was born inSan Francisco.[7] | |
| Manalo was born in theSouth-of-Market districtof San Francisco to Philippine chef and musician Teofilo Manalo and English maid Gertrude Taylor. Her parents met and married in San Francisco.[7][8]She grew up with her parents, her twin sister Connie, her older sister Frankie, and a younger brother, Sonny, who died as a child. Manalo couldn't afford to take swimming lessons until she was 10 years old and took summer swimming lessons from theRed Cross, paying five cents for admission to a pool in theMission District. Draves played badminton, basketball, and softball in high school. She graduated from Commerce High School onVan Ness Avenuein 1942 and worked a temporary civil service job in the Army Port Surgeon's office to add to the family's meager income.[8] | |
| Manalo was introduced to diving at age 16 by Jack Lavery. It was Lavery who introduced her to Phil Patterson, swimming coach of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. Due to racial discrimination and prejudice for being a Filipino, she changed her name to Vicki Taylor to be accepted in Patterson's school. Patterson's military stint duringWorld War IIcaused Manalo to stop diving for a year. She instead found a job at the Presidio military base. Manalo later joined the swimming program at the Crystal Plunge in North Beach headed by Charlie Sava and was assigned Jimmy Hughes as her coach. Her 50–100 dives after-school diving practice continued even to her enrollment at San Francisco Junior College (nowCity College of San Francisco). At age 19, Hughes guided her to a third-place finish in her first nationalAAUdiving competition at the Indiana national meet in 1943.[8] | |
| At the 1944 national AAU championships, the men's 1942 platform champion,Sammy Lee, befriended her and introduced her to his coaching friend, Lyle Draves, who ran the swimming and diving program at the prestigious Athens Athletic Club inOakland. Manalo then started training with Lyle Draves, adding platform diving to her springboard diving repertoire. Lyle Draves left theSan Francisco Bay Areafor Los Angeles in disgust at the racism in the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club.[9]Manalo commuted to Los Angeles, and placed second and third at the Outdoor Nationals. In 1945, on the death of her father, she returned to her old job as a secretary in the Army Port Surgeon's office in San Francisco. | |
| When the war ended, Manalo finally moved toSouthern Californiafor good. She married her coach on July 12, 1946, and won the National Tower Diving Championship (10 meter platform), in 1946, 1947 and 1948. Prior to competing in the 1948 Olympics, Draves won a total of five United States diving championships.[1]Despite not finishing first in either springboard or platform events of the Olympic trials in Detroit, Draves made the team.[10] | |
| Draves in 1948 | |
| After her Olympic victory, the Manalo-Draves couple visited the Philippines for the first time upon the invitation from the ManilaJaycees. The 29-day visit to the Philippines had them staying in aMalacañang Palacesuite and visiting her father's relatives inOrani, Bataan, where he was born. She gave platform diving exhibitions at theRizal Stadiumand in other Philippine venues, and also for Philippine presidentElpidio Quirino. Draves appeared in a layout in 1949, being named one of the magazine's top two U.S. athletes at the 1948 Olympics.[10] | |
| Draves turned professional after the Olympics, joiningLarry Crosby's ""Rhapsody in Swimtime"" aquatic show for her pro debut atSoldier FieldinChicagoin 1948. She also performed in theL.A. Coliseumwith headlinerEsther Williamsand theGeneral Motorsconvention in Detroit. In 1949 and 1950, Draves toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe withBuster Crabbe's ""Aqua Parade"".[3]After performing regularly in theCoachella Valley's El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs and at the Shadow Mountain Resort & Club in Palm Desert, Draves retired from diving. | |
| After starting a family in the early 1950s in Glendale, Draves and her husband operated a swimming and diving training program at Indian Springs in Montrose and later moved the program to Encino. They later stayed in Tarzana for 35 years, raising four sons – David, Jeffery, Dale and Kim – to be skilled divers. She later worked as a secretary while her husband remained a coach and swimming director.[12] | |
| In the mid-1960s, Draves was an advocate for the Filipino Education Center when the second wave of Filipino immigrants came to America and largely settled in the South of Market district.[13] | |
| In 1968, Draves joined sprinterJesse Owens, football player Tommy Harmon and race car driverSam Hanksat theSands Hotelin Las Vegas to help raise $700,000 for theCity of Hope National Medical Center.[14] | |
| Draves was inducted into theInternational Swimming Hall of Famein 1969.[15][1] | |
| In 2005, Draves was selected for the year's Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco. On May 27, 2005, she received her award and spoke at the commencement ceremonies of City College at theSF Masonic Auditorium. She received a resounding ovation from the 2000 graduating students in attendance.[16]In the same year, she was acknowledged as one of Los Angeles Athletics Club's outstanding athletes. | |
| In October 2006, a two-acre park (one acre per gold medal) in San Francisco was named Victoria Manalo Draves Park in her honor. It was on the same site, on Folsom and Sherman streets, that she attended the erstwhile Franklin Elementary School, four blocks away from where she was born and raised.[8] | |
| Draves and her husband moved toPalm Springs, Californiain 1995. She died on April 11, 2010,[17]aged 85, from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia.[18] | |
| On August 3, 2020, Draves was honored with aGoogle Doodlein recognition of her achievements.[19] | |
| * ^Jump up to:McLellan, Dennis (April 29, 2010),""Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver"",_The Los Angeles Times_ | |
| * ^Jump up to:Rodis, Rodel (October 16, 2015),""The Olympic triumph of Vicki Manalo Draves"",_The Philippine Daily Inquirer_ | |
| * ""Vickie Manalo Draves Wins Springboard Diving Championship As Yank Olympiads Forge Ahead U.S. Splashers Win Diving Crown""._UCR Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research_. Archived fromthe originalon October 4, 2020. RetrievedAugust 3,2020. | |
| * ""Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver""._Los Angeles Times_. August 12, 2012. | |
| * ""Victoria ""Vicki"" Manalo Draves (USA) 1969 Honor Diver""._ISHOF.org_.International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived fromthe originalon September 27, 2017. RetrievedSeptember 27,2017. | |
| * Smith, Terria (April 23, 2010),""Olympic diver Victoria Draves dies"", | |
| * ""Olympic Diver Vicki Draves Dies At 85""._International Swimming Hall of Fame_. | |
| * ""Celebrating Vicki Draves""._Google_. August 3, 2020. RetrievedAugust 3,2020. | |
| * Draves, Vicki; Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. (1999)._An Olympian's oral history : Vicki Draves, 1948 Olympic Games, diving_. Los Angeles: Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.OCLC45944250. | |
| * Divers at the 1948 Summer Olympics | |
| * American female divers | |
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| **On December 31, 1924** , Vicki Draves, a Filipino-American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London and the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard, was born Victoria Taylor Manalo in the South-of-Market district of San Francisco, California. | |
| (Vicki Draves (gold, center) at the Summer Olympics in London, 1948) | |
| Her parents were Teofilo Manalo a chef and musician, and English maid Gertrude Taylor. Her parents met and married in San Francisco. She grew up with her parents, her twin sister Connie, her older sister Frankie, and a younger brother, Sonny, who died as a child. Manalo couldn't afford to take swimming lessons until she was 10 years old and took summer swimming lessons from the Red Cross, paying five cents for admission to a pool in the Mission District. Draves played badminton, basketball, and softball in high school. She graduated from Commerce High School on Van Ness Avenue in 1942 and worked a temporary civil service job in the Army Port Surgeon's office to add to the family's meager income. | |
| Manalo was introduced to diving at age 16 by Jack Lavery. It was Lavery who introduced her to Phil Patterson, swimming coach of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. Due to racial discrimination and prejudice for being a Filipino, she changed her name to Vicki Taylor to be accepted in Patterson's school. | |
| At the 1944 national AAU championships, the men's 1942 platform champion, Sammy Lee, befriended her and introduced her to his coaching friend, Lyle Draves, who ran the swimming and diving program at the prestigious Athens Athletic Club in Oakland. Manalo then started training with Lyle Draves, adding platform diving to her springboard diving repertoire. Lyle Draves left the San Francisco Bay Area for Los Angeles in disgust at the racism in the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. Manalo commuted to Los Angeles, and placed second and third at the Outdoor Nationals. In 1945, on the death of her father, she returned to her old job as a secretary in the Army Port Surgeon's office in San Francisco. | |
| When the war ended, Manalo finally moved to Southern California for good. She married her coach on July 12, 1946 and won the National Tower Diving Championship (10 meter platform), in 1946, 1947 and 1948. Prior to competing in the 1948 Olympics, Draves won a total of five United States diving championships. Despite not finishing first in either springboard or platform events of the Olympic trials in Detroit, Draves made the team. | |
| On August 3, 1948, she won her first springboard title in the London Summer Olympics. Draves followed up that win with the gold medal in the 10-meter platform on August 6, becoming the first woman to win both titles. | |
| Draves appeared in a Life layout in 1949, being named one of the magazine's top two U.S. athletes at the 1948 Olympics. | |
| Draves turned professional after the Olympics, joining Larry Crosby's ""Rhapsody in Swimtime"" aquatic show for her pro debut at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1948. She also performed in the L.A. Coliseum with headliner Esther Williams and did the General Motors convention in Detroit. Draves, in 1949 and 1950, toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe with Buster Crabbe's ""Aqua Parade."" After performing regularly in the Coachella Valley's El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs and at the Shadow Mountain Resort & Club in Palm Desert, Draves retired from diving. | |
| After starting a family in the early 1950s in Glendale, Draves and her husband operated a swimming and diving training program at Indian Springs in Montrose and later moved the program to Encino. They later stayed in Tarzana for 35 years, raising four sons – David, Jeffery, Dale and Kim – to be skilled divers. She later worked as a secretary while her husband remained a coach and swimming director. | |
| In the mid-1960s, Draves was an advocate for the Filipino Education Center when the second wave of Filipino immigrants came to America and largely settled in the South of Market district. | |
| (Google's Google Doodle tribute to Vicki Draves, celebrated American Olympian in August 3, 2020) | |
| In 1968, Draves joined sprinter Jesse Owens, football player Tommy Harmon and race car driver Sam Hanks at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to help raise $700,000 for the City of Hope National Medical Center. | |
| Draves was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1969. | |
| In 2005, Draves was selected for the year's Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco. On May 27, 2005, she received her award and spoke at the commencement ceremonies of City College at the SF Masonic Auditorium. She received a resounding ovation from the 2000 graduating students in attendance. In the same year, she was acknowledged as one of Los Angeles Athletics Club's outstanding athletes. | |
| In October 2006, a two-acre park (one acre per gold medal) in San Francisco was named Victoria Manalo Draves Park in her honor. It was on the same site, on Folsom and Sherman streets, that she attended the erstwhile Franklin Elementary School, four blocks away from where she was born and raised. | |
| On August 3, 2020, Google celebrated Draves with a Google Doodle in recognition of her achievements. | |
| Draves and her husband moved to Palm Springs, California in 1995. She died on April 11, 2010, aged 85, from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia. She was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. | |
| * Why Vicki Draves' story is so powerful, 72 year later, Eric Francisco, August 3, 2020, https://www.inverse.com/ | |
| * Vicki Draves, Wikipedia | |
| * Vicki Draves overcame segregation to make a name for herself, https://usopm.org/ | |
| * Celebrating Vicki Draves, August 3, 2020, Google | |
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| _San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets.SFCentric Historyis a new column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. This time it’s all aboutVicki Draves_ | |
| We write on history to keep it alive, so it doesn’t fade away, or get lost among louder voices. If we don’t, how will people know that greatness that existed? The story of Vicki Manalo Draves fits into this narrative perfectly–a 1948 Olympic gold-medal winning athlete from San Francisco who has yet to be inducted to theBay Area Sports Hall of Fame. An example of female, Asian, Filipino,_human_ excellence, whose story has been buried under those of others. In honor of October having been Filipino Heritage Month, and the amazing feat of a 23-year-old who helped the U.S.take all medalsin women’s diving at the Games, this week’s SFCentric History is going to help tell that story. | |
| Vicki Draves. Photo fromPositively Filipino | |
| Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves was born in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco, on December 31, 1924, to a chef, houseboy, and musician Filipino father (Teofilo Manalo) and English maid mother (Gertrude Taylor). Perhaps foreshadowing her success and double-gold medal future, her name literally means “victory win” (Manalo is “win” in Tagalog). Victoria’s parents met while Gertrude was in the city visiting a sister, who also worked as a maid at the Saint Francis Hotel and had married a Filipino man. | |
| Vicki’s parents and married in SF, during a time when interracial marriages weren’t encouraged or accepted, and Asians faced rampant discrimination. In SoMa, the Filipino population was growing, and the Manalo family would attend cultural events in the neighborhood. Still, Vicki was subjected to racism from a young age. In the 1940s, in San Francisco, swimming pools were designated as being “white only.” For one day a month, “internationals” were allowed to patronize these facilities. After people of color finishing swimming, the pools were drained and cleaned. These were the pools that Vicki Manalo would first swim in as a young girl. | |
| She had wanted to be a ballerina, but the Manalo family couldn’t afford lessons. However, Vicki undoubtedly would use the same grace and form seen in ballerinas andput it into diving. She would swim at the saltwater Fleishhacker Pool, and took free swimming lessons at the Mission Red Cross. Soon, a teenage Manalo, who attended Commerce High School at the time, was discovered by Phil Patterson, coach of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club.At the age of 17, she went to join, but was rejected due to her Filipino last name. Patterson started a new club for Manalo, the Patterson School of Swimming and Diving, but still said she couldn’t compete unless she used her mother’s maiden name, Taylor. For a time, Vicki also swam at Charlie Sava’s Crystal Plunge pool in North Beach. | |
| Vicki Draves diving. Photo:Life Magazine | |
| Photo:Vicki and Lyle Draves | |
| In 1943, at the age of 19, Vicki met Lyle Draves. The diving coach worked at the Athens Athletic Club in Oakland, and began training Manalo, who reclaimed her last name. He would also coach two other Olympic gold medalists, Pat McCormick and Sue Gossick, and helped take home 12 medals at Olympic Games. Vicki and Lyle Draves got married in 1946, moved to Pasadena, and had four children, who were all divers. Coached by Lyle, Vicki won five United States Championships from 1946 to 1948. This was the result of six hours of training per day, where Vicki could do over 100 dives, even while attending San Francisco Junior College (today’s City College). | |
| But this was only the beginning. The greatest test of all top athletes was next–the 1948 Summer Olympics. It was the first Olympic Games in 12 years, and the first since the end of World War II. Vicki Manalo Draves arrived in London, and proceeded to break records–and barriers. | |
| * She and Sammy, the men’s platform winner, were thefirst divers of Asian descentto winOlympic gold medals. | |
| Photo: Sammy Lee and Vicki Draves.Asian American Writers’ Workshop | |
| After the Olympics, Vicki went professional, and started a tour performing in various water shows and public exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Philippines. She went to Manila inFebruary of 1949to “put on six diving exhibitions.” When Manalo Draves went to join the L.A. Athletic Club, this time the Olympian wasn’t rejected. The Draves even appeared in a 1955 documentaryfilm about Palm Desert. | |
| Vicki continued to be honored over the years. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1969. At the2002 Filipino American National Historical Society Conference, the athlete was presented with an award. 2005 sawDraves selectedas the Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco. | |
| But the people of San Francisco, including those in the Filipino and Filipino-American community, felt that a permanent way to honor the city’s gold medalist was well deserved. After petitioning to have the Gene Friend Recreation Center renamed in her name, in2005, it was unanimously voted that a new park be named in Victoria Manalo Draves honor. Located at 16 Sherman Street, four blocks from where Manalo was born, and standing where her alma mater Franklin Elementary School once did,Victoria Manalo Draves Parkopened in 2006 asthe only parknamed after a Pinay in the U.S. | |
| OnApril 11, 2010, Vicki died of complications of pancreatic cancer, in Palm Springs, California. | |
| Although she wasnominated in 2015, she still hasn’t been inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. She deserves to be there, because of her talent, her achievements, and because she did it all, without the aid of anything but her drive, and with noasteriskby her name. Her feats, her perseverance in the face of adversity, and her spirit however, will always outshine any honor Victoria Manalo Draves does or doesn’t get. | |
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| # Vicki Draves Biography | |
| ## About Vicki Draves | |
| Born on 31st December 1924,**Vicki Draves** was a famous competitive diver from the USA. At the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, she won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving. He also became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. Additionally, she became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1969 and was selected for the year's Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco in the year 2005. Unfortunately, the summer of 2020 has been marred by the fact that the Tokyo Olympics had to be postponed until 2021. However, today's Google Doodle, which honors the Filipino American Olympic champion Vicki Draves, offers us the chance to bask in the kind of transcendent athletic glory that's beloved by sports fans all around the world. According to Olympic.org, she succeeded at the peak of his sport to overcome racism and poverty in his youth. Google honored its determination and success with a Google doodle in memory of its first day that won the gold medal at the Olympics. On 3rd August 2020, she was honored with a Google Doodle in recognition of her achievements. ""Because of my racial background, he could not bring me as a member of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club,"" recalled Manalo-Draves in 1999. This inspired Patterson to start a ""special club"" in order to bypass the Fairmont's rules. Vicki Draves was born in San Francisco, California, in the USA. Her birth name/real name was Victoria Manalo Draves. Her nationality was American and her ethnicity was Mixed of American-Philippine-English. Her race is White. She belonged to Capricorn Zodiac sign and her religion was Christian. She was born to Philippine chef and musician Teofilo Manalo and English maid Gertrude Taylor. Her parents met and married in San Francisco. She also has three siblings, twin sister; Connie, older sister; Frankie, and a younger brother, Sunny who died as a child. At the small age, she took summer swimming lessons from the Red Cross, paying five cents for admission to a pool in the Mission District. Additionally, she played badminton, basketball, and softball in high school. As of her education, she graduated from Commerce High School on Van Ness Avenue in 1942 and worked a temporary civil service job in the Army Port Surgeon's office to add to the family's meager income. Vicki Draves, a gold medalist diver | |
| ## Cause of Death of Vicki Draves | |
| At the age of 85, Vicki died on 11th April 2010 in Palm Springs, California, the USA. She died from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia. She was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California. | |
| ## Vicki Draves's Diving Career | |
| * It was Jack Lavery who brought Vicki in the field of diving at the age of sixteen. She was then introduced to Phil Patterson, swimming coach of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. | |
| * Born as Victoria Manalo Draves, she later changed her name to Vicki Taylor to be accepted in Patterson's school because of racial discrimination and prejudice for being a Filipino. | |
| * Later on, she was introduced to his coaching friend, Lyle Draves by Sammy Lee. Lyle Dravs ran the swimming and diving program at the prestigious Athens Athletic Club in Oakland. | |
| * She also appeared in a ""Life"" layout in the year 1949, being named one of the magazine's top two U.S. athletes at the 1948 Olympics. | |
| Vicki Draves, first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the first Asian American to win Olympic gold medals | |
| * She also joined sprinter Jesse Owens, football player Tommy Harmon and race car driver Sam Hanks at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas to help raise $700,000 for the City of Hope National Medical Center in the year 1968. | |
| ## Vicki Draves's HUSBAND, Lyle Draves | |
| Vicki Draves was a married woman. She married her coach; Lyle Draves on 12th July 1946. The duo operated a swimming and diving training program at Indian Springs in Montrose in the early 1950s and later moved the program to Encino. The couple later stayed in Tarzana for 35 years, raising four sons; David, Jeffery, Dale, and Kim; to be skilled divers. She also worked as a secretary while her husband remained a coach and swimming director. Again, they moved to Palm Springs, California in the year 1995. Prior to her death, the duo was living a happy life without any disturbances. Her sexual orientation was straight. Vicki Draves with her husband Lyle Draves | |
| ## Vicki Draves's Net Worth 2020 | |
| Starting her career as a diver from the age of sixteen, she had achieved a great height in her career. She had won many gold medals throughout her career and left the remark to the beginners who are in the first stage of diving career. The net worth of Vicki Draves is estimated to have $130 Million as of 2020. She was earning a considerable amount of salary from her career before her death. She was living a cool lifestyle with her earnings. In October 2006, a two-acre park (one acre per gold medal) in San Francisco was named Victoria Manalo Draves Park in her honor. It was on the same site, on Folsom and Sherman streets, that she attended the erstwhile Franklin Elementary School, four blocks away from where she was born and raised. Her major source of wealth was from a diving career. First woman to be awarded gold medals for ten-meter platform & three-meter springboardDies At 85 due to Pancreatic CancerHonored with Google DoodleMarried Lyle Draves | |
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| Originally wanting to study ballet, Manalo Draves’ family was unable to afford the expensive lessons. So at the age of “9 or 10” Manalo Draves learned to swim “at what they called the nickel baths in the Mission District.” At 16 Manalo Draves learned to dive. | |
| Showing talent as a diver, Manalo Draves was encouraged to pursue the sport. She was introduced to swimming coach Phil Patterson of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club, but despite her promise the club denied her entrance due to her race. Patterson refused to train her. | |
| But Manalo Draves learned quickly and thrived, until her training was put on hold by the war in 1941. She stopped diving for a year until she took up training with Jimmy Hughes at Crystal Plunge. Under Hughes’ tutelage, 19-year-old Manalo Draves took third place on the 3-meter board at her first national diving competition. | |
| At her next national competition, she met a coach named Lyle Draves. Because Hughes could not “advance her to the next level” Manalo Draves asked Draves to become her coach. He agreed, beginning a new era in Manalo Draves’ training. | |
| Manalo Draves learned to platform dive with Draves, and advanced to the point where she could qualify to compete at a competition held at the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. However, now competing under the name “Vicki Manalo” not “Vickie Taylor”, the club refused to allow her to compete. | |
| Shortly after this, Manalo Draves and Draves left San Francisco for Los Angeles and were married in July of 1946. | |
| In 1946, 1947, and 1948 Manalo Draves won the US National Diving Championships in platform diving and springboard diving. | |
| Manalo Draves made the US Olympic team in 1948. When it came time for Manalo Draves to be announced at the games in London, it was intended to announce her as “Mrs. Draves”. However, perhaps unable to further stand the erasure of her father and her Filipino identity, she boldly insisted on being named as “Victoria Manalo Draves”. | |
| Manalo Draves went on to become the first Asian-American Olympic gold medalist, winning in the 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform. At the same games, Korea-American Sammy Lee won the gold medal in the men’s 10-meter platform. Manalo Draves and Bob Mathias, a decathlete, were honored as the top US athletes at those games. | |
| Said Manalo Draves of herOlympic experience, “I remember sitting by Sammy, and I was so nervous that I would shake between each dive as though I was cold. I remember saying to Sammy, ‘I can’t do this, Sammy. I am not going to make it.’ He said, ‘You came all this distance and you are going to give up? Get up there and do what you are supposed to do.” | |
| After the Olympics, Manalo Draves toured the world in water shows, gracing the cover of _LIFE Magazine_ , and gaining popularity amongst both white Americans and AAPIs. She was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in December of 1969. | |
| After performing regularly at hotels in Palm Springs and Palm Desert, Manalo Draves retired to run a swimming and diving school with her husband. She and Draves raised four sons – all divers. Victoria Manalo Draves died in April 2010 at the age of 85. | |
| She was appointed the Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco of 2005, and in 2006 a park in San Francisco was named Victoria Manalo Draves Park. In 2015 a permanent plaque was installed at the park commemorating her life and achievements. | |
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| Draves in 1948 | |
| **Victoria Manalo Draves**(__**Manalo** ; December 31, 1924 – April 11, 2010) was a Filipino American competitivediverwho wongold medalsin both platform and springboard diving at the1948 Summer OlympicsinLondon.[3]Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard.[4]Additionally, Draves became the first American woman to win two gold medals in diving, and the firstAsian Americanto win Olympic gold medals.[5][6]She was born inSan Francisco.[7] | |
| Manalo was born in theSouth-of-Market districtof San Francisco to Philippine chef and musician Teofilo Manalo and English maid Gertrude Taylor. Her parents met and married in San Francisco.[7][8]She grew up with her parents, her twin sister Connie, her older sister Frankie, and a younger brother, Sonny, who died as a child. Manalo couldn't afford to take swimming lessons until she was 10 years old and took summer swimming lessons from theRed Cross, paying five cents for admission to a pool in theMission District. Draves played badminton, basketball, and softball in high school. She graduated from Commerce High School onVan Ness Avenuein 1942 and worked a temporary civil service job in the Army Port Surgeon's office to add to the family's meager income.[8] | |
| Manalo was introduced to diving at age 16 by Jack Lavery. It was Lavery who introduced her to Phil Patterson, swimming coach of the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club. Due to racial discrimination and prejudice for being a Filipino, she changed her name to Vicki Taylor to be accepted in Patterson's school. Patterson's military stint duringWorld War IIcaused Manalo to stop diving for a year. She instead found a job at the Presidio military base. Manalo later joined the swimming program at the Crystal Plunge in North Beach headed by Charlie Sava and was assigned Jimmy Hughes as her coach. Her 50–100 dives after-school diving practice continued even to her enrollment at San Francisco Junior College (nowCity College of San Francisco). At age 19, Hughes guided her to a third-place finish in her first nationalAAUdiving competition at the Indiana national meet in 1943.[8] | |
| At the 1944 national AAU championships, the men's 1942 platform champion,Sammy Lee, befriended her and introduced her to his coaching friend, Lyle Draves, who ran the swimming and diving program at the prestigious Athens Athletic Club inOakland. Manalo then started training with Lyle Draves, adding platform diving to her springboard diving repertoire. Lyle Draves left theSan Francisco Bay Areafor Los Angeles in disgust at the racism in the Fairmont Hotel Swimming and Diving Club.[9]Manalo commuted to Los Angeles, and placed second and third at the Outdoor Nationals. In 1945, on the death of her father, she returned to her old job as a secretary in the Army Port Surgeon's office in San Francisco. | |
| When the war ended, Manalo finally moved toSouthern Californiafor good. She married her coach on July 12, 1946, and won the National Tower Diving Championship (10 meter platform), in 1946, 1947 and 1948. Prior to competing in the 1948 Olympics, Draves won a total of five United States diving championships.[1]Despite not finishing first in either springboard or platform events of the Olympic trials in Detroit, Draves made the team.[10] | |
| Draves in 1948 | |
| After her Olympic victory, the Manalo-Draves couple visited the Philippines for the first time upon the invitation from the ManilaJaycees. The 29-day visit to the Philippines had them staying in aMalacañang Palacesuite and visiting her father's relatives inOrani, Bataan, where he was born. She gave platform diving exhibitions at theRizal Stadiumand in other Philippine venues, and also for Philippine presidentElpidio Quirino. Draves appeared in a layout in 1949, being named one of the magazine's top two U.S. athletes at the 1948 Olympics.[10] | |
| Draves turned professional after the Olympics, joiningLarry Crosby's ""Rhapsody in Swimtime"" aquatic show for her pro debut atSoldier FieldinChicagoin 1948. She also performed in theL.A. Coliseumwith headlinerEsther Williamsand theGeneral Motorsconvention in Detroit. In 1949 and 1950, Draves toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe withBuster Crabbe's ""Aqua Parade"".[3]After performing regularly in theCoachella Valley's El Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs and at the Shadow Mountain Resort & Club in Palm Desert, Draves retired from diving. | |
| After starting a family in the early 1950s in Glendale, Draves and her husband operated a swimming and diving training program at Indian Springs in Montrose and later moved the program to Encino. They later stayed in Tarzana for 35 years, raising four sons – David, Jeffery, Dale and Kim – to be skilled divers. She later worked as a secretary while her husband remained a coach and swimming director.[12] | |
| In the mid-1960s, Draves was an advocate for the Filipino Education Center when the second wave of Filipino immigrants came to America and largely settled in the South of Market district.[13] | |
| In 1968, Draves joined sprinterJesse Owens, football player Tommy Harmon and race car driverSam Hanksat theSands Hotelin Las Vegas to help raise $700,000 for theCity of Hope National Medical Center.[14] | |
| Draves was inducted into theInternational Swimming Hall of Famein 1969.[15][1] | |
| In 2005, Draves was selected for the year's Most Outstanding Alumnus of City College of San Francisco. On May 27, 2005, she received her award and spoke at the commencement ceremonies of City College at theSF Masonic Auditorium. She received a resounding ovation from the 2000 graduating students in attendance.[16]In the same year, she was acknowledged as one of Los Angeles Athletics Club's outstanding athletes. | |
| In October 2006, a two-acre park (one acre per gold medal) in San Francisco was named Victoria Manalo Draves Park in her honor. It was on the same site, on Folsom and Sherman streets, that she attended the erstwhile Franklin Elementary School, four blocks away from where she was born and raised.[8] | |
| Draves and her husband moved toPalm Springs, Californiain 1995. She died on April 11, 2010,[17]aged 85, from pancreatic cancer aggravated by pneumonia.[18] | |
| On August 3, 2020, Draves was honored with aGoogle Doodlein recognition of her achievements.[19] | |
| * ^Jump up to:McLellan, Dennis (April 29, 2010),""Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver"",_The Los Angeles Times_ | |
| * ^Jump up to:Rodis, Rodel (October 16, 2015),""The Olympic triumph of Vicki Manalo Draves"",_The Philippine Daily Inquirer_ | |
| * ""Vickie Manalo Draves Wins Springboard Diving Championship As Yank Olympiads Forge Ahead U.S. Splashers Win Diving Crown""._UCR Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research_. Archived fromthe originalon October 4, 2020. RetrievedAugust 3,2020. | |
| * ""Victoria Manalo Draves dies at 85; Olympic gold medal diver""._Los Angeles Times_. August 12, 2012. | |
| * ""Victoria ""Vicki"" Manalo Draves (USA) 1969 Honor Diver""._ISHOF.org_.International Swimming Hall of Fame. Archived fromthe originalon September 27, 2017. RetrievedSeptember 27,2017. | |
| * Smith, Terria (April 23, 2010),""Olympic diver Victoria Draves dies"", | |
| * ""Olympic Diver Vicki Draves Dies At 85""._International Swimming Hall of Fame_. | |
| * ""Celebrating Vicki Draves""._Google_. August 3, 2020. RetrievedAugust 3,2020. | |
| * Draves, Vicki; Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. (1999)._An Olympian's oral history : Vicki Draves, 1948 Olympic Games, diving_. Los Angeles: Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.OCLC45944250. | |
| * Divers at the 1948 Summer Olympics | |
| * American female divers | |
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