Welcome to our Focus on the Olympics articles that introduces you to our Olympic athletes and hopefuls that will be competing in Beijing this summer. Haley established herself as an international force in diving when she won 2 Pan American Games medals in diving at the age of 15. 
Meet Haley Ishimatsu
Haley Dyan Ishimatsu is the daughter of Carol and Mark Ishimatsu. She has one sister, Tory, who is also a diver. She now trains four and a half hours a day, six days a week. Aside from diving, she has also participated in gymnastics and rock climbing. She loves to read and collects rocks from all the places she’s visited.
Why Root for Her?
Haley has only been diving since 2004, and competed a year later at the Speedo Junior National Diving Championships, where she placed third on the 1-meter and platform, and fifth on the 3-meter. Since switching to the senior elite level in 2006 at only 14 years old, she has placed in the top 10 of nearly every single national and international competition she has entered.
Performance Record
- 2007 Speedo USA Diving National Championships women’s platform champion, women’s synchronized platform champion
- 2007 Kaiser Permanente National Championships women’s platform bronze medalist
- 2007 Pan American Games women’s platform silver medalist, women’s synchronized platform bronze medalist
- 2007 Italian Grand Prix women’s synchronized platform bronze medalist
- 2006 Kaiser Permanente National Championships women’s platform silver medalist
The U.S. Olympic Diving trials will be held June 18-22.