Lost a crimson tide teammate yesterday

My dude Brent Roberts has moved on from this world. I swam at Bama a tad over 20 years backs. If you've ever read my posts on the team you'd know I do not respect divers. Brent was different though... this guy could pull off the most insanely difficult dives with ease. Not that pussy arse 1 or 3m springboard shite either, I'm talking this guy brought us home an individual ncaa title in 10m platform. 4 stories up, nothing but net.

If you watch enough diving practice you're gonna see someone over/under rotate, open up early, whatever and just light themself up on impact. Makes a hell of a noise in an indoor pool at that height. It'll stop you in your tracks while swimming, and we all look over to see who it is surfacing at the diving area. It was never Brent, dude must've had an internal gyroscope like none other.

So swimming and diving... 2 athletic skills that transfer over to no adult job except coaching, right? Apparently not, dude found himself a job working at sea world as a part of their show. Did that for a while before he heard about Jason Statham... and the fact he was a diver. Brent transitioned on to live action stunt man at Universal Studios. Apparently only I acquired a useless skill set in my countless hours of training.

One of the best teammates you could have asked for. Always smiling and happy... and dominating the competition. 4 time all American, 2 time SEC diver of the year, first SEC diver to win the 10m at NCAAs. Definitely the GOAT Bama diver. Thought y'all deserved to hear about him.