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#261 Cal's Head Diving Coach, Pei Lin, discusses mindset, recruiting, Chinese domination


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Pei Lin is the Head Diving Coach at the University of California. As an athlete, she was a 3x NCAA runner up at the Miami University (Ohio) as well as a Chinese national champion.   

In our first ever diving interview, Pei discusses...  

*the competitive mindset that she is looking for in a recruit 

*how the Chinese are dominating the sport (they just swept a perfect 10 out of 10 events at World Championships) 

*all about Cal Diving

00:00 Bratter PA, Immigration Law

00:05 Hello Pei Lin
02:00 How Pei got into Diving
06:45 Talent & Passion
07:50 Beijing Olympics
08:40 What makes China so good at diving??
12:06 Sarah Bacon
14:36 Psychological factor
15:50 Flow state in diving?
16:50 20 hour framework
18:15 Why diving?
19:40 Nutrition
20:55 Coaching styles
21:00 Why America?
24:40 Recruiting Chinese athletes
27:30 Cal Diving
29:10 What are you looking for?
32:00 Making that RIP sound
33:20 Diving injuries
34:00 Pei Lin's signature dive
34:50 Competitive mindset
35:38 Best Divers in the World
37:05 Best Countries for Diving

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